Big Car collective and friends are doing 2011 Fluxus events in the year 2011. Every time we perform a Fluxus action -- either collectively or individually -- we'll document it and post it here. We are starting by working from original Fluxus event scores created, mostly, in the 1960s. These scores, designed for others to perform, can be found in the Fluxus Performance Workbook and other publications. This is part of Big Car's efforts to make art an experience for people and to provide arts education in a fun and engaging way. See also our Made for Each Other community-based public art program. Basic guidelines for Fluxus events: 1. Fluxus is an attitude. It is not a movement or a style. 2. Fluxus is intermedia. 3. Fluxus creators like to see what happens when different media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts. Fluxus works are simple. The art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief. 4. Fluxus is fun. Humour has always been an important element in Fluxus. To find out more about Indianapolis, Indiana based Big Car and its activities, please visit: www.bigcar.org. Be part of the project by clicking the button below.
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Word Event Exit. GEORGE BRECHT, 1961
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Take a balloon. Blow. Let it go. Say: ‘Goodbye’!!!
LUCE FIERENS, 1987
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Take a rose. cut off the thorns. Give it to someone!!
LUCE FIERENS, 1987
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Ten Arrangements for Five Performers
Leader rings bell, performers move. Leader rings bell a second time, and all freeze, each saying a single word.
Emmett Williams, 1962
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Lemon
1 Buy a large basket of lemons. 2 Place the lemons 3 Throw the lemons.
KEN FRIEDMAN, 1966
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Shoes of Your Choice
A member of the audience is invited to come forward to a microphone if one is available and describe a pair of shoes, the ones he is wearing or another pair. He is encouraged to tell when he got them, the size, the color, why he likes them, etc.
Allison Knowles, 1963
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Shut your eyes Open your eyes Shutyoureyes Open your eyes Shutyoureyes OpenyourEyes Shutyoureyes Openyoureyes Shutyoureyes Open your eyes Shutyoureyes Openyoureyes Shutyoureyes Open your eyes and look at your hands
MIEKO SHIOMI, 1963
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Bit Part for Audience
Each word of a poem is written on separate cards passed out to the audience, who perform them in sequence.
LARRY MILLER, 1969
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Run
A performer runs about, around and through the audience until completely exhausted.
Ben Vautier, 1963
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Thank You Piece
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you
politeness is NO crime
PETER FRANK, DATE UNKNOWN
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Bean Snow (for Alison)
Read the text slowly and deliberately, using a normal tone of voice. Bean snow. Bean snow beans. Bean snow beans about themselves. Bean snow themselves. Bean snow beans about themselves. Bean snow.
ANNE TARDOS
1994
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Explaining Fluxus
Explain Fluxus in five minutes or less, using a few simple props.
Ken Friedman
1986
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Lessons
Arrange nine crackers on a table. Ask someone to choose the most beautiful cracker from the grouping. Smash the remaining crackers with your fist.
DAVI DET HOMPSON, 1969
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Number 3
Peel an orange carefully and arrange pigs in a row. Choose one of the pigs.
BENGT AF KLINTBERG, 1965
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Orange Event Number 16 (for Åke Hodell)
Regard two or three oranges for a long time.
BENGT AF KLINTBERG, 1966
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The Gift of Tongues (audience version)
Sing meaningfully in a language made up on the spot.
BEN VAUTIER
1962
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