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Events & Actions

  

  

    In Boston. I can get Gabriel Moylon to look into the Gallery situation; I
    also recommended that we start going to Stand-Up Comedy and Poetry Open Mic Nights and not
    do either, instead to do Fluxtuff.

    -ecas 

1/18

White Horse Gallery, Boston, Ma, March 1st-April ? (THESE DATES ARE NOT ACCURATE!)
"Various" Show sponsored by 138...there will be a Fluxus Influx Booth, a Fluxus Influx Snack Bar, and Fluxus Influx Gift Shop.



    		
    Think it would be cool if we can avoid Galleries and other traditional art
    venues...Fluxus is bigger than art & has been tied too closely to art.  But it IS
    hard to find other public spaces in which to play.  Comedy venues sound great. Very
    scary thought to me..so maybe I should try it!  Getting audience members up to do
    historical Fluxus scripts could be mildly amusing, even without the "art
    context."-ab
 

    
 

  

  

    Could we organize a nationwide Flux Carnival? We do stuff, You do stuff,
    other people do stuff, all on one day in various places. I say we do it on Maciunas
    Birthday...if we can find out when it was. 

    -ecas 



    		
    Flux Carnivals sounds fun.  Geographically simultaneous OR one place
    at a time. Have always liked FluxShoe (a Fluxus event that traveled around
    universities/etc. in England in the 70s).  Focus on one place at a time. Would
    require us to travel.-ab
But Flux Carnival is something big to work up to.  Once we
    have worked out enough of our own stuff to pull it off. Hey, we already have Fence Event! (with cowpie
    betting) that was designed to be portable.-ab

  

  

    
    I've always wanted to organize an invitational "Fluxus" Science
    Fair.  Imagine a small gym full of cardboard tables each with an odd
    science-looking-like project/demo... goofy theories...  I used to do these great
    science fair projects in high school and would love to play with this idea & visual
    intense modern ritual.-ab
  

  

    
New name? New look?

  

  

    FLUXUS INFLUX

    -ecas 
work space for logos and symbols

    -ab 

    



    		
    
  

  

    
Who's Gonna Play?

  

  

    Dick Higgins?

    Channing Hansen?

    -ecas 

1/18

Sean Zoom Keaveny

Gabriel Moylon

Corey Morgan

Chris Carnes
         -ecas


    		
    
  

  

    
Media Games

  

  

    1. Nothing evil or violent. 

    2. We can stage a semi-major event in Boston. 
a. What?

    b. When? 

    -ecas 


1/18
Fluxus Influx Event 1

    Newbury Street, Boston
 
     "Protest Against the Ground"

    Group is organized holding protest signs: (Created by Zoom Keaveny) reading:

    "Down with Ground!" "Vive Le Up!" "Gravity Kills!" and various anti-ground        
    slogans. Cans tied to protestors shoes to avoid contact with the ground, a  
     petition is offered to passer-by asking them for signatures which would agree to 
     outlaw the idea of ground. 

    



    		
    
  

  

    
Magazine?

  

  

    1. I have lots of Manilla Envelopes and Notecards. 138 is working on
    creating some objects. Of course, we can't go on as large a scale as Maciunas just
    yet...but we could get artists, universities, etc to be interested, maybe, sorta...??? 
2.
    We can ask people on Fluxlist to contribute/Subscribe. If they don't, we can mail them out
    randomly (to newspapers as editorials, to businesses as complaints about their products,
    or follow L. Ron Hubbards strategy and mail things to public figures who may be interested
    in the idea. -ecas 

    



    		
    

	

    		
  

  

    
Internet Projects

  

  

    Set-up and run a Fluxus Influx gallery.  Invite and display
    submissions.  Do a different exhibition/theme several or more times a year.-ab  
Separate
    idea or part of online gallery:  set-up push channel (e.g., like Marimba) to deliver small chunks of Fluxus Influx
    content on a regular or periodic basis.-ab

    

    		
      

    		
  

  

     Set-up a web site dedicated to "INTERNET PERFORMANCE ART."
      This site could help define and grow this emerging areea by 1. collecting examples,
    2. attracting essays and discussions on the topic, &  3. stimulating
    participation.  [Do you know of anything like this on the net?]  Examples of
    internet performance art..."Room with one person,"  Emmett Williams' interactive java pieces on
    the Virtualitas site.-ab

    		
      

    		
  

  

    Live web-based interactive events
Sponsor occasional
    web-based live chats (using e.g., I-Chat)--varying
    topics, various featured guests (e.g., Dick Higgins--this was a FLUXLIST idea that we've
    never gotten around to).-ab

    
Use NetConference/NetMeeting
    software to hold live "FLUXUS INFLUX PLAY NIGHTS"  where interested
    participants meet to play together on White Boards (creating
    images/text/drawing/audio/video pieces...that could then be displayed in our online
    gallery? sent out via a push channel for subscribers?). -ab

    

    		
      

    		
  

  

      

    		
      

    		
  

  

      

    		
      

    		
  

  

    
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