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FLUXUS PUZZLE (DOES FLUXUS HOLD WATER?)
materials
A styrofoam or other disposable drinking cup.
A small, shallow box
A label that says: FLUXUS PUZZLE (DOES FLUXUS HOLD WATER?)
instructions that say: reconstruct enclosed cup fill with water.
Instructions for constructing object:
Break or cut up disposable cup store in box with printed instructions attach label to outside of box. Close box to store, Open box to display follow instructions to perform.
Fort Worth 2006
THE BIRD CAGE
Aquire a bird cage pack full with barbie dolls.
Fort Worth 2006
LEND A HELPING HAND
Aquire a plastic or porceline hand
build or aquire a box of the appropriate size to hold the hand. on the box write "Hope this Helps", on the hand write: "A Helping Hand (on loan)"
Fort Worth 2006
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
Go into the middle of a large, dense crowd with a stick of chalk (and a chalk holder if you have one) moving backwards begin drawing a line into a circle aprox 14 feet in
diamiter asking people to move out of your way as you draw the circle.
As you complete the circle ask people to exit the circle through the remaining opening before closing the circle.
Draw the circle closed with you in it.
Keep moving around the circle perfecting the shape of it and keeping people out.
For added fun, if you have 3 or 4 friends willing to participate you can add some additional elements.
- You dress in a suit or smock, your friends as body gaurds. Have friends keep people out of the circle while you stand on the middle.
- With friends as 'bouncers' leave a small opening in circle as a door and sell tickets to the crowd to be inside the circle or give away tickets selectively.
- In combination with # 2, have a radio (or musician) and make a micro disco out of the circle for people to dance.
SPIRAL
Take a thirty to fifty foot long by four feet wide strip of 4 mill polyurethane plastic. With a wide point black permanent marker make a line diagonally from the top corner at one end of the plastic to the bottom corner at the other end of the strip. Roll tightly so that when finished the line starts at one side and, spiraling, disappears into the center of the roll.
1979
PHOTOGRAPHIC
Proposal for a Commission
Go into a space,
establish the exact
locations where photographs will be exhibited. Find the corresponding
locations
on the outside of the structure, place camera facing out from that
point.
Take photographs. Once developed and framed, hang photographs in those
locations on the inside wall.
Proposal for a Commission
Go into a space,
establish the exact
locations where photographs will be exhibited. Using a wide angle lens
place camera to take a photo of the exterior views pointing toward
those
locations.
Take photographs. Once developed and framed, hang photographs in those
locations in the exhibition space.
Xerox
Works
STENCIL
Take a alpha bet stencil,
preferably
a used one, and make a photocopy of it. Take the copy and make a photo
copy of it. Repeat until the image is no longer recognizable (50 to 80
generations)
1976
HAND COPIES
make a photocopy of your
hand. Take
the copy and make a photo copy of it. Repeat until the image is no
longer
recognizable (50 to 80 generations)
1976
VIDEO
CIGARETTES
Set up a video camera
pointing at an ash tray. Light one package of twenty cigarettes.
Arrange
in a circle in the ash tray. record on video the twenty cigarettes
burning
down to the filter (or use a non-filtered cigarette)
1976
Video Tape three hours of
rush hour
traffic starting before the rush and continuing until the rush is in
full
bloom and everyone has gone from 55 mph to 5 mph. Edit out two hours
and
keep the part that shows the transition. Do this from the summit street
bridge in Fort, Worth Texas. 1980
INFINITY FEEDBACK
Take a video camera on a
tripod and
point it directly into the monitor. Zoom in to find the other side of
infinity.
1977 SLCC
Notes: when I did this it did some
strange things that I couldn't account for happened.
MISCELLANY
ART HISTORY
Go to a local library
that has the
best visual arts resources. Begin at 'A' and take one foot of books at
a time to a table. Page through every book looking at every image of
art
regardless of style, period or medium. When finished get the next foot
of books and so on until you have see every visual art image in the
library.
Leave books on table.
1976
Fame by Association
Make 100 small works of art on paper. Send to 100 well know persons in the art world. Add each person's name to your resume that do not send works back to you.1982
Public Collections
Create a number of very
small sculptures.
Go to museums all over the world.
Dig a small hole on the museum
grounds.
Place sculpture in hole and replace dirt.
Document if desired.
Add
museums
to the collections part of your resume.
1979
Book
Project
Produce a book of your
work. Carry
it into various libraries and place on shelf in the appropriate
location
for a book of your art if there were one.
1976
Paint what you can not
see.
1976
Musical Paintings
Make paintings of music
or based on
musical principles of composition.
1979
If the Glove Fits
Fill gloves with
concrete.
1977
MATERIALS GARDEN
Dig a series of 24 x 24 x
12 inch
holes in your yard. Define with wooden supports. Fill with materials
such
as stone, gravel, sand, shards, broken glass, nails.
1978
CREATE RADIO TAPES
Produce tapes that sound
like a radio
station including music, commercials and odd commentary and play in
your
car at a busy hamburger joint like Steak and Shake or White Castle in
the
parking lot. Play music loud and try to get other people to attempt to
find the station on their radio.
INSPECTOR
Go with an other person
dressed up
in nice clothes perhaps suits or white lab coats and with cameras and a
notepad to an
industrial
part of town. Take photographs and notes about the area. When you
encounter
local residents ask general questions about the industry in the area,
where
do they live, have they ever noticed any unusual activity in the
neighborhood.
Write down their answers. When they ask what you are doing and who you
are
give indirect, ambiguous answers that don't actually answer their
questions.
Give the impression that you may be doing some research about a local
company.
Once you have created a stir leave.
1987
Depackaging Exhibition
Demonstration of how powerful artistic manipulation is in modern products.
Purchase 20 to 50 popular name brand packages of products from the local grocery store (depending on exhibition space available).
Examples: Campbell’s Soup can, Coca Cola bottle, Clorox Bleach, Wonder Bread, Pepsi Cola, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, Tide Laundry Soap, Lay's Potato Chips
Pick a variety of products that are easily recognizable by their packaging, colors and logos.
Carefully write down every word or other written matter on each package beginning with the largest words and proceeding to the smallest. Write in a poetic form. Type these commercial messages and package information onto an standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Have each one framed in a simple document frame.
Paint the packages with primer/gesso with as many coats as needed to leave the packages without any trace of the orginal design or colors.
Build shelving to hold all of the painted packages or somehow attach packages to the wall with the framed poem of its contents and advertising hung next to each.1984
EASTER ART HUNT
Write a strange message
or drawing
and photo copy as many times as you like. Place copies in various books
in the local library for people to find.
TWENTY MILE LINE
Take a chalk holding
stick and lots
of chalk.
Chart out a twenty mile walk along a paved road.
Drag the
chalk
along continuously replacing as needed.
Draw a continuos line 20 miles
long.
1978
PROCESS ETCHING
Take an etching plate 12
x 12 inches.
Prepare it to the point where an image can be scratched onto the
plate. Take the plate to a parking lot. Taking the plate by one corner,
throw the plate like a Frisbee horizontally parallel with the parking
lot
so that the plate spins and scratches against the parking lot surface
like
a stone skipping across a lake.
Clean up the edges, etch and print.
1978
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