Fluxfest During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic

Organized by Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Allan Revich, Keith Buchholz and the contemporary Fluxus community.

Invitation by Bibiana Padilla Maltos Day 1 - Live Online Performances Entire Day 1 video (or view individual performances below   Day 2 - Short Pre-recorded Performances Entire Day 2 video here (or individual videos below) Live Performances - Day 1 C. Mehrl Bennett, John M. Bennett, Keith Buchholz, Mary Campbell, Devin Cohen, Pate Conaway, Viv de Dada, Lova Delis, Lydia Grey, S.A. Griffin, Adamandia Kapsalis, Barbara Lubliner, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Melissa McCarthy, Allan Revich, Owen Smith, Joyce Toye, Jane Wang, Jennifer Weigel, Jokie X Wilson, Reid Wood Prerecorded Performances - Day 2 Argentina Ana Montenegro, Silvio de Gracia Canada Allan Revich Croatia Roberto Vodanovic Germany Brandstifter, Thorsten Fuhrmann, Susanne & Lars Schumacher, Horst Tress Italy Pier Roberto Bassi, Angelo NGE Colella, Maya Lopez Muro, Roberto Scala, Giovanni e Renata StraDada, Luca Zanini Mexico Aleandro Espinoza, _guroga, Diana Magallónz Russia Alexander Limarev, Svetlana Pesetskaya Turkey Derya AVCI and Ahmet Hakan UK Matthew Lee Knowles USA C. Mehrl Bennett, John M Bennett, Keith Buchholz, Viv de Dada, Picasso Gaglione, Adamandia Kapsalis, Kinsinas, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Mike M. Mollett / Neal Taylor, Michæl Orr, Chris Reynolds, Owen Smith, Rod Summers, Jennifer Weigel, Jokie X Wilson

OPEN CALL DAY ONE: Sign up for live performance (3 min. max.) at fluxfest@fluxlist.net Day One - Live Performances March 20th, 2021 20 performances

Allen Revich performing When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail: Repair a watch

Barbara Lubliner performing HEAD HAT SHARING.

C. Mehrl Bennett performing Nothing Left Event.

Devin Cohen performing.

Jane Wang performing Ich bin fluxus.

Jennifer Weigel performing PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE

John M. Bennett -- two performances Split Poem Silent Performance

Jokie X Wilson performing DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!!!

Keith A. Buchholz performing Peel slowly and see

Lova Delis performing Tape

Lydia Grey performing Spring Equinox.

Jane Toye performing Allan Revich's score Weave a ukelele

Mary Campbell -- audience participation activity and a video performance CDC Mask Guidelines_Madlib & Eye Roll

Melissa McCarthy performing Ask me anything Tell me everything/sin eater

Pate Conaway demonstrating How to Make a Debbie Reynolds.

Owen Smith, Professor of Intermedia at The University of Maine, passed away seven months after reminding us how to live the Flux Life. Owen Smith performing EVENT FOR LIVING #1 (A Flux Life) Until you are no longer able.

Reid Wood performing DISCONNECT

S.A. Griffin talks about The Poetry Bomb and reads a poem

Viv de Dada and Mr. Abracadabra engage in banter and then perform What's up Buttercup?

Bibiana asks for a moment of silence for those we have not been able to hug during this pandemic year

OPEN CALL DAY TWO: Submit a video (3 min. max.) at fluxfest@fluxlist.net Day Two - Prerecorded Video - Facebook Watch Party March 21st, 2021 39 videos

Allan Revich Introduction to Day 2

_guroga FLUXUS FORBICI

Adamandia Kapsalis Round & Round

Alejandro Espinoza Three Failures

Alexander Limarev 365 Steps

Allan Revich Things are looking up and down

Ana Montenegro Yoko Ono Lighting Piece

Angelo Nge Colella

Bibiana Padilla Maltos Up My Sleeve

Brandstifter And His Incredible Labertierchens Who are you?

C. Mehrl and John M Bennett Johnny Wakes Up

C. Mehrl Bennett and Others In the Banana Hat Challenge

Chris Reynolds

Derya Avci and Ahmet Hakan CANPOLAT

Diana Magallon HIVE

Giovanni and Renata Stradada Posters

Horst Tress Fluxpostphoto

Jennifer Weigel Mailed Out - Color-by-Numbers Masterpieces Catch up with this project here!

Jennifer Weigel JMVM Dada Day de Dada Performance Art Collective

Jokie X Wilson XMAS APPROACH

Keith A. Buchholz Cloud Gift - For Geoffrey Hendricks (2018)

Luca Zanini [music]

Matthew Lee Knowles

Maya López Muro NOTHING IN NOTHING

Michael Orr The Tusken Raider

Mike M. Mollett and Neal Taylor (LA Dada) MAN IN A BOX

Osvaldo Cibils El arte del asperillas

Owen F. Smith Transition No. 3.1 and Three Political Events for Hammer and String

Picasso Gaglione Nothing

Pier Roberto Bassi Fluxfest 2021

Renata Zaffi Stradada Dancing

Roberto Scala (cavellini fluxus)

Roberto Vodanovic Copor world behind the word

Rod Summers A Singularity for Ryosuke

Silvio de Garcia In spirit, homage to Kurt Schwitters

Susanne Schumacher O - TON - INSIDE OUT

Svetlana Pesetskaya

Kusina Films (Tammy Kinsey and Jean Kusina) We survived to see spring (2021)

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Mary Campbell collected the scores performed during this Fluxfest and created this booklet Click graphic above to download your own copy

SCORES by Pierro Roberto Bassi, C. Mehrl Bennett, John M. Bennett, Brandstifter, Mary Campbell, Osvaldo Cibils, Pate Conaway, Viv de Dada, Alejandro Espinoza, Thorsten Fuhrmann, Picasso Gaglione, Silvio de Gracia, Lydia Grey, Adamandia Kapsalis, _guroga, Drew Lesso, Alexander Limarev, Barbara Lubliner, Diana Magallon, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Melissa McCarthy, Ana Montenegro, Allan Revich, Susanne Schumacher, Owen F. Smith, Rod Summers, Jane Wang, Jennifer Weigel, Jokie X Wilson, Reid Wood

C. Mehrl Bennett's Banana Hat Challenge for Fluxfest 2021 Send me a selfie of you balancing a banana on your head Artist stamps created by C. Mehrl Bennett and Marilyn R. Rosenberg showcasing 90 submissions Participants Argentina Fernando Garcia Delgado   & Joaquín Dylan García Canada Anna Banana Louise Chance-Baxter Derek von Essen   & Odette Hidalgo Martine Evans Susan Gold Dame Mailarta Allan Revich David Shilman Croatia Darja Mrdjen Roberto Vodanović Germany S.D. Cooper Marquardt Sabrina Schmider Horst Tress Poul R. Weile Greece Maria Chorianopoulou Katerina Nikoltsou Giannis Stamenitis Italy Pier Roberto Bassi Lithuania Antanas Mačiulskis Mexico Aaron Flores The Netherlands Carien Van Hest Russia Svetlana Pesetskaya Alexander Limarev Spain Sabela Baña Rafael González Taiwan Niniji Chen Cyril Vergnaud UK Alan Bowman Hazel Jones Michael Leigh Mailart Martha Heather Wilkie (paganfrog) USA Jeff Bagato Mick Boyle Keith Buchholz Mary Campbell dustin cecil Margaret Chase Cracker Jack Kid Elly Dallas Tristan & Nina Endl K.S. Ernst Jane Flury/MADAWG DiAnn Gonzales Meg Graham Béla Grimm Larkin Higgins Jennie Hinchcliff Adamandia Kapsilis Jennifer Kosharek & Scout Jean Kusina Carol Lampe Jack Lattemann Barbara Lubliner Bibiana Padilla Maltos Jessica Manack Melissa McCarthy Hal McGee Sheila Murphy Sue Olcott Michael Orzechowski Chris Cathead Reynolds Josh Ronsen Marilyn R Rosenberg   and Kala Ladenheim Adam Roussopoulos Alicia Starr Ryan Robert Saunders Cathi Schwalbe Sinclair Scripa Delia j Vassar Semanchik    & Taje Crawford Leslie Singer Jonathan Stangroom John Tostado (Oh Boy) Hugh Tribbey Vivian Vassar, Gina (the cat),    Mark Semanchik Nico Vassilakis Jane Hsiaoching Wang Jennifer Weigel Carolyn Hasenfratz Winkelmann Reid Wood

The "Unofficial" Banana Hat Challenge Video C. Mehrl Bennett: "This is the Final Official 3 minute video of the Banana hat Challenge which aired at Fluxfests (Facebook) group Sunday, March 21, 2021, on Day 2 of Fluxfest 2021 Online. The participants were performing this fluxus event: 'Balance a banana on your head.' After which it was assumed they would 'Eat the banana'. I wrote the Banana hat Challenge event instruction(s) as inspired by a dream I had of meeting a work colleague at a shopping mall; As we conversed I could not take my eyes off the rotting banana nesting atop her carefully coiffed hairdo."

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