Some People Sometimes Doing Fluxus at Fluxfests


an ongoing project by Allen Bukoff/Fluxus Midwest


     Celebrating
Виктория Барвенко, Catherine Merhl Bennett, John M. Bennett, Keith Buchholz, 
Allen Bukoff, Mary Campbell, Viv de Dada, Picasso Gaglione, Adamandia Kapsalis, 
Diane Keys, Jonathan Leiter, Madawg, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Melissa McCarthy, 
Andrew Oleksiuk, Svetlana Pesetskaya,  Allan Revich, Cathi Schwalbe,
 Jonathan Stangroom, Jennifer Weigel, Reid Wood, and Jokie X
 for their inspired participation at various Chicago Fluxfests. 


[This is neither a complete nor an elite list of Chicago Fluxfest participants.]









2017 PROJECTS





     
The Fluxus Stick-Man Army
 

Twenty-three wooden stickmen with white balloon heads. 
Images silkscreened on balloons with black rubber ink. 








    

     
World Premiere, UNUM Gallery & loading dock at 3039 W. Carroll Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Saturday, May 27th, as part of FLUXFEST CHICAGO 2017. 














     
2017 Poster

  



  

  

     
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8 x 8 inches


12 x 12 inches
  

24 x 24 inches


30 x 30 inches


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Party Favor/Handout 2017


Seven people were added to the Some People Sometimes Doing Fluxus at Fluxfests collection and display in 2017. 
 
 
 
   


     
 

Each of these people received a plastic ziplock bag with balloons imprinted with their image and a balloon imprinted with the Fluxus Midwest logo. 

  


















2016 PROJECTS






Portable Wooden-Grid Balloon Display

    
 Structure is nine-feet tall, seven-feet three-inches wide and holds sixteen seventeen-inch balloons.
Images silkscreened on balloons using black rubber ink. 

     

  

     


    
    














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THE UNVEILING
World Premiere, Chicago Cultural Center, Friday, May 27th, during Fluxfest Chicago 2016. 





     

  
  









     
2016 Poster


  

   








  

  

     
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8.5 x 11 inches


  11 x 17 inches


 13 x 19 inches


21 x 24 inches


30 x 35 inches







  
  

  

 

       
 
  
 

     
Party Favors 2016

     Everyone featured on a balloon received a set of their own balloons. 

 
  
 

  
 
   
 
  

  
  
   

     
The packet contained copies of the balloons displaying a participant's image

     and two balloons bearing a Fluxus Midwest logo. 

 
   


     
To obtain your own copies of these balloons
--for use in performances and other fluxus-related activities--
contact Allen Bukoff, Acting Director, Fluxus Midwest.
Please direct your inquiries to allen.bukoff@gmail.com 
     

 
     
     
 
     
  
     







  

    

    
    

    
Original Display Board for Some People Sometimes Doing Fluxus at Fluxfests 2016 
    
    

 
    
 

          

  
 

     
 
  
  
 
  
 

 FRONT

Rubber balloons with images stapled to section of old barn-door board.
Title printed with black magic marker.
  
  		

  BACK

  Board signed and dated on back with black magic marker.. 

  
  
     

     

       

     
     

     
Photograph by Sean Su 
     

  

Board presented to Keith Buchholz and Fluxfest Chicago 2016
during the Fluxus Street Theatre activities at the Block Museum of Art,
 Northwestern University, Saturday, May 28th, 2016.
     

  

Currently stored in a trash bag in Cathi Schwalbe's garage. 
[May 27, 2017: Schwalbe's now claiming she's owed rent for storage!?!] 

 
   








     

     
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