A performance I did at SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts)’s Fluxakucha 9 panel. Each panelist performed or talked about Fluxus in a pecha kucha format where each slide/event lasts 20 seconds.
I performed 20 classic and newly-created Fluxus scores live, for 20 seconds each, while a video with 20 other classic and newly-invented Fluxus pieces (each also 20 seconds) played behind me.
Dennis Summers assisted, holding placards that listed each live performance’s author, title, and description, tossing each one aside as I moved on to the next action.
All the pieces are climate- or weather-themed. The plan was to create a performance whose unpredictable and overstimulating nature was analogous to climate chaos. Chaos did indeed ensue, even more than planned, since I quickly lost track of the timing of my live performances and got out of sync with both Dennis’s shedding of each card and the videos behind me, due to the frantic nature of the pieces. The tumultuous result ended up being exactly the kind of maelstrom the title called for.
I hurt my feet stomping on the paper cicadas and couldn’t walk normally for days.
This is a video of the live performance. Oh, and here is another one. And another one from almost the exact same angle! Maybe you can watch those last two simultaneously and get a parallax view that makes it feel like it’s in 3D.
You can see the video I projected behind me here.
These are the 20 Fluxus pieces I made for video.
These are the 20 Fluxus pieces I performed live.
Chris Wildrick 