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Thursday, October 15
Free day for visiting nearby museums, and possibility for a field trip TBA
Late afternoon/evening (Time and Location TBA): A dinner to honor the lives of James McManus (1942-2025), who initiated the Fluxus stream at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in 2013, as well as Alison Knowles (1933-2025), one of the founding members of Fluxus.
Free day for visiting nearby museums, and possibility for a field trip TBA
Late afternoon/evening (Time and Location TBA): A dinner to honor the lives of James McManus (1942-2025), who initiated the Fluxus stream at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in 2013, as well as Alison Knowles (1933-2025), one of the founding members of Fluxus.
Friday, October 16
9:00 – 10:30. Session 1 : Origins, Introductions, and Early Fluxus
10:30 – 11:00. Break
11:00 – 12:30. Session 2 : Modernist Antecedents and American Contexts
12:30 – 1:30. Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00. Session 3 : Networks, Mail Art, and Ephemeral Exchange
3:00 – 3:30. Break
3:30 – 5:00. Session 4 : Sound, Noise, and Performance
Saturday, October 17
9:00 – 10:30. Session 5 : Interpretation, Irregularity, and Identity
10:30 – 11:00. Break
11:00 – 12:30. Session 6 : Participation, Place, and Theatricality
12:30 – 1:30. Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00. Session 7 : Fluxus Futures: Pedagogy, Technology, and AI
3:00 – 3:30. Break
3:30 – 5:00. Session 8 : Searching for Mr. T: Closing Performance
9:00 – 10:30. Session 1 : Origins, Introductions, and Early Fluxus
10:30 – 11:00. Break
11:00 – 12:30. Session 2 : Modernist Antecedents and American Contexts
12:30 – 1:30. Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00. Session 3 : Networks, Mail Art, and Ephemeral Exchange
3:00 – 3:30. Break
3:30 – 5:00. Session 4 : Sound, Noise, and Performance
Saturday, October 17
9:00 – 10:30. Session 5 : Interpretation, Irregularity, and Identity
10:30 – 11:00. Break
11:00 – 12:30. Session 6 : Participation, Place, and Theatricality
12:30 – 1:30. Lunch break
1:30 – 3:00. Session 7 : Fluxus Futures: Pedagogy, Technology, and AI
3:00 – 3:30. Break
3:30 – 5:00. Session 8 : Searching for Mr. T: Closing Performance
Meals
Friday and Saturday
Breakfast on your own
Lunch. There will be a convenient lunch cart with several options (including vegetarian) available just outside the museum, although attendees are, of course, welcome to eat anywhere.
Dinner on your own.
Friday and Saturday
Breakfast on your own
Lunch. There will be a convenient lunch cart with several options (including vegetarian) available just outside the museum, although attendees are, of course, welcome to eat anywhere.
Dinner on your own.
Schedule in Detail (click here for a pdf of the schedule with abstracts)
Thursday | Free day | ||
Museum visits; possible field trip TBA | |||
6:30 PM | Memorial dinner | Location TBA | Dinner honoring James McManus (1942–2025) and Alison Knowles (1933–2025) |
Friday | Session 1 | Origins, Introductions, and Early Fluxus | |
09:00:00 AM | Dennis Summers | Symposium welcome and introduction | |
09:05:00 AM | Roger Rothman | Bucknell University | Overview of Fluxus |
09:10:00 AM | Meredith Tromble | University of California, Davis | Are any of these any good? |
09:23:20 AM | Simon Anderson | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Fluxus is ludicrous! |
09:23:20 AM | James Housefield | University of California, Davis | 33 1/3 @ UC Davis: Cage/Duchamp/ O’Doherty & the Art of Chance in NorCal, 1969 & 2017 |
09:30:00 AM | Allen Riley | University of California, Santa Cruz | Agential Cuts in Yoko Ono's Cut Piece |
10:30:00 AM | Break | ||
Friday | Session 2 | Modernist Antecedents and American Contexts | |
11:00 AM | Linda Henderson | University of Texas at Austin | Vibratory, Fluctuant Modernism: Early 20th Century Art and the Ether |
11:20 AM | Anne Collins Goodyear | Independent Scholar | Fluxus and its Antecedents: The Case of Mina Loy and Alice Hutchins |
11:30 AM | Emilio Taiveaho Peláez | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | The Making of Americans and Something Else: Gertrude Stein and the Future of Fluxus |
12:30 PM | Lunch | Outside the museum / nearby | Lunch cart with several options, including vegetarian |
Friday | Session 3 | Networks, Mail Art, and Ephemeral Exchange | |
1:30 PM | Molly Kelleher | Southern Illinois University | John Dewey, Fluxus and Mail Art |
1:40 PM | Margot Bouman | The New School | Transient, Marginal, Ephemeral: The Centrality of Labor in Feminist Fluxus Performances |
1:46:40 PM | Laurel Fredrickson | Southern Illinois University | “Greetings from Robert Filliou”: Interlocutions across Time and Space” |
1:53:20 PM | Michael Filas | Westfield State University | N.E.W.S. From SFSF |
3:00 PM | Break | Break | |
Friday | Session 4 | Sound, Noise, and Performance | |
3:30 PM | Bruno Clarke | Texas Tech University | Weekend Rocker |
3:36:40 PM | Dennis Summers | Independent Artist | Peter Brötzmann: Unlawful Noise, Fluxus, and Freedom |
3:46:40 PM | Andrea Buckvold, Chris Wildrick | Independent Artist; Syracuse University | Press Play |
6:30 PM | Dinner | Location TBA | Dinner |
Saturday | Session 5 | Interpretation, Irregularity, and Identity | |
9:00 AM | Roger Rothman | Bucknell University | Interpretations (of Interpretations) |
9:06:40 AM | Nicole L. Woods | Loyola Marymount University | Love, All-is-On: Intimacy and Experimentation in the Collaborations of Alison Knowles, Liz Phillips, and Pauline Oliveros |
9:13:20 AM | Susan Peterson | Independent Artist | Irregularities : A Tragicomedy in Twenty Acts |
9:20 AM | Ayala Leyser | Independent Scholar | Id-Entity and Shadow, |
10:15 AM | Break | Break | |
Saturday | Session 6 | Participation, Place, and Theatricality | |
10:45 AM | Christine Filippone | Millersville University of Pennsylvania | The ‘Living’ Water: Origins of Participatory Action in the Work of Betsy Damon |
11:05 AM | Dawna Schuld | Texas A&M University | Flaneurs of Santa Monica: Maria Nordman, Itinerancy, and the Art of Happenstance |
11:25 AM | Melissa Warak | University of Texas at El Paso | Theatricality, Humor, and Chance in the Performances of Ragnar Kjartansson |
12:30 PM | Lunch | Outside the museum / nearby | Lunch cart with several options, including vegetarian |
Saturday | Session 7 | Fluxus Futures: Pedagogy, Technology, and AI | |
1:30 PM | Judith Rodenbeck | University of California, Riverside | Possibly learning by possibly doing |
1:36:40 PM | Doug Stark | University of Texas at Arlington | The Art of Solicitation: Fluxus, Patronage, and the Artist-Founder |
1:46:40 PM | Michael Cunningham | University of Illinois Chicago | Holding(IT)Together |
1:56:40 PM | Kevin LaGrandeur | Global AI Ethics Institute | Emerging Technology, Art, and the Posthuman |
2:03:20 PM | Craig Saper | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | The Prompt: From Fluxus to FluxAIs |
3:00 PM | Break | Break | |
Saturday | Session 8 | Searching for Mr. T: Closing Performance | |
3:30 PM | Simon Anderson, Hannah Higgins, Christopher Reeves, Lauren Sudbrink | School of the Art Institute of Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago; Independent Artist; Independent Artist | Searching for Mr. T |
6:30 PM | Dinner | Location TBA | Dinner |
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