2017 Fluxfest Chicago

Poster design Keith Buchholz

Performances and events developed and produced organized
by Keith A. Buchholz & the contemporary Fluxus community.

Documentation for Chicago Fluxfest 2017

May 25, 26, 27 and 28

Photos, videos and links.

Opening Reception: "Connections"
Joan Flasch Artistbook Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Thursday, May 25th 4-7pm


Checking things out	Joan Flasch's Artist Book Collection	Hanging out with Chagall	Hitting the streets

Hanging out at Italian Village

A Visit to Concrete Happenings
Smart Museum of Art
Friday, May 6th, 10am


Wolf Vostell's "Concrete Traffic"	Checking it out

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New York Correspondance School Dinner
The Burghoff Restaurant
May 26, 8pm

Photos by Reid Wood and Allan Revich -- click any photo to view larger image

Contemporary Fluxus Performances, Scores & Objects
UNUM Gallery
Saturday, May 27th, 1-4pm

John M. Bennett
dream interpretation

"Nobody here ..."
by Keith A. Buchholz

John M. Bennett reading
some of his poetry

Click any of the photos below to view a larger image


Ignore Cathi Schwalbe	John M. Bennett reading surrounded by an attentive audience	Bibiana Padilla Maltos' homage to Felipe Ehrenberg and his "Evento Hilado / String Event"	Waiting to take turns performing


"Making America Grate, Again!" Score by Reid Wood. Performed by Bernd Reichert.	(ZAUM) poems by Daniil Kharms (Russian- 1925 SEC for Esther) and by Paul Scheerbart (German- 1897 poem KIKAKOKU!) performed by C. Merhl Bennett, John M. Bennett, and Jane Benight.		"Many Hats She Wears" (Version 6) featuring Cathi Schwalbe

"Business Man Piñata" by Cathi Schwalbe


"Skirt cut" by Jennifer Weigel	"Political path" by Keith A. Buchholz. Make a path of Cheetos. Walk it.

"Skirt cut" by Jennifer Weigel

"Ask a Cow" flower petal display
by C. Mehrl Bennett

Special Fluxfest Installation "An excuse to be outside" Walking labyrinth by Cathi Schwalbe

Special Fluxfest Project Fluxus Army Stickmen by Allen Bukoff/Fluxus Midwest
Installation at UNUM
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Explore this two-year Fluxfest project in more detail!

Spontaneous Convergence Allen Bukoff's stick figure of C. Mehrl Bennett gets an "Ask the Cow" doll from Phyllis Steen and gets wrapped in a shawl from C. Mehrl Bennett.