Larry Miller, "Only You"

Copyright your genetic code.

Bengt af Klintberg, "Orange Event Number 8"

(for Pi Lind)
Eat an orange as if it were an apple. (Hold it, unpeeled, between forefinger, middle finger and thumb, bite big mouthfuls, etc.)

Joe Jones, "Dog Symphony"

Dogs are admitted to the audience. The orchestra is equipped with dog whistles. On signal from the conductor, the whistles are blown and played while the dogs bark.

Davi Det Hompson, "Lessons"

Arrange nine crackers on a table. Ask someone to choose the most beautiful cracker from the grouping. Smash the remaining crackers with your fist.

Hi Red Center, "Street Car Event"

A long string is prepared with various everyday objects attached to it at intervals. The objects include such things as: hats, shoes, underwear, toothbrushes, hammers, cans of soup, books, household tools, cups, phonograph records, etc. The string is laid out on the street continuously from a moving street car.

Eric Andersen, "Opus 23"

Dec. 11, 1963: Sit down from 7pm to 8:03pm (Danish Time) and think about the people all over the world who may be performing this.

Albert M. Fine, "Fluxus Piece for G.M."

2 events are advertised at 2 adjacent locations. Audience is brought into the same hall by separate entrances. The audiences are separated from each other by a curtain. For the performance, the curtain is raised.

Peter Frank, "Thank You Piece"

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

politeness is NO crime

Lee Heflin, "Ice Trick"

Pass a one pound piece of ice among members of the audience while playing a recording of fire sounds or while having a real fire on stage. The piece ends when the block of ice has melted.

Bob Lens, "#257"

Eat juicy apple(s) during concert.

George Maciunas, "Duet for Full Bottle and Wine Glass"

(Fill the score in whatever manner you choose. Durations can be altered. Perform events as they occur on the time grid.)

	0-30"	30-45"	45-65"	65-90"	90-120"	120-155"	155-190"	190-200"
shaking
slow dripping
fast dripping
small stream
pouring
splashing
opening corked bottle
roll bottle
drop bottle
strike bottle with glass
break glass
gargle
drink
sipping
ringing mouth
spitting

Robert Bozzi, "In Memoriam to George Maciunas #2, Variation"

Equal numbers of performers wearing gas masks sit in teams opposite each other. A balloon is placed between the two groups. Performers operate various sprayers such as perfume nebulizers, doedorant sprayers, disinfectants, insecticide sprays, paint or any other sprayers in pressurized or hand-pumped devices. Sprayers are operated toward the balloon. Each group tries to push the balloon away from its side and over to the other team. The piece ends when the balloon reaches one group.

Ken Friedman, "Christmas Tree Event"

Take a Christmas tree into a restaurant. Place the tree in a seat next to you. Order two cups of coffee, placing one in front of the tree. Sit with the tree, drinking coffee and talking. After a while, depart, leaving the tree in its seat. As you leave, call out loudly to the tree, 'So long, Herb. Give my love to the wife and kids!'

Emmett Williams, "For La Monte Young"

Performer asks if La Monte Young is in the audience.

Toshi Ichiyanagi, "Music for Piano No. 5, Fluxvariation"

An upright piano is positioned at center stage with its profile toward the audience. The pedal is fixed in a depressed position. A performer, hidden from view in the wings, throws darts into the back of the piano according to the time pattern indicated in the score.

Adam Overton, "Whisper Performance"

dangerously, perhaps
for neither better nor for worse

.

Whisper something
to someone
they will never forget

.

Alison Knowles, "Nivea Cream Piece"

First performer comes on stage with a bottle of Nivea Cream or (if none is available) with a bottle of hand cream labeled 'Nivea Cream." He pours the cream onto his hands and massages them in front of the microphone. Other performers enter, one by one, and do the same thing. Then they join together in front of the microphone to make a mass of massaging hands. They leave in the reverse of the order in which they entered, on a signal from the first performer.

Don Boyd, "A Performance Calendar (for El Djerrida)"

For whom? Anyone.
When? Anytime.

JANUARY	Obey all laws 30 days. One day disobey one law.
FEBRUARY	Make a work with the fewest elements possible. One item?
MARCH	Watch the clouds on a sunny day for 10 minutes.
APRIL	Watch some kind of insect for 10 minutes.
MAY	Take a book and a pen. (An old-fashioned ink pen). Sit in the woods for 30 minutes watching and listening. Write of what you see and feel and hear.
JUNE	Find a sheep. Watch it 30 minutes.
JULY	Find a wolf. Watch it 30 minutes.
AUGUST	Write a letter to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service or the equivalent income tax authority where you live), explaining how difficult it is to achieve lofty dryness.
SEPTEMBER	Make a list of your four favorite books. Send it to me.
OCTOBER	Make your favorite dish of food. Send me the recipe.
NOVEMBER	Go somewhere and watch it snow. Sit with a friend. Drink hot tea.
DECEMBER	Give something you treasure to another person.

Nam Jun Paik, "Moving Theater"

Fluxus fleet of cars and trucks drives into crowded city during rush hour. At the appointed time, all drivers stop cars, turn off engines, get out of cars, lock doors, take keys and walk away.

George Brecht, "For a Drummer (for Eric)"

Drum on something you have never drummed on before.

Drum with something you have never drummed with before.

Yoko Ono, "Laundry Piece"

In entertaining your guests, bring out your laundry of the day and explain to them about each item. How and when it became dirty and why, etc.

Ay-O, "Exit No. 1"

The audience must pass through a vestibule that has been covered with upward protruding nails except for a few areas left open in the shape of footprints.

Jackson Mac Low, "Thanks"

Thanks
a simultaneity for the people
Any person in the room may begin the action by making any vocal utterance.
Other people may make utterances or be silent at any time after the beginning.
Utterances may be in any language or none.
They may be [1] sentences, [2] clauses, [3] phrases, [4] phrase fragments, [5] groups of unrelated words, [6] single words [among which may be names of letters], [7] polysyllabic word fragments, [8] syllables, [9] phones [included or not within phonemes of any languages], [10] any other sounds produced in the mouth, throat, or chest.
Any utterance may be repeated any number of times or not at all.
After a person makes an utterance and repeats it or not, s/he should become silent and remain so for any duration.
After the silence, s/he may make any utterance, repeate it or not, again become silent, etc.
People may continue to make utterances or not until no one wants to make an utterance or until a predetermined time limit is reached.

All utterances are free in all respects.

Nonvocal sounds may be produced and repeated or not in place of utterances.
Anyone may submit an or all elements of this simultaneity to chance regulation by any method[s].
December 1960-February 1961

A Fluxus Thanksgiving

No holiday seems to lend itself to improvisation more than Thanksgiving. Since programming marathons have become the norm on the holiday, enjoy our marathon of fluxus scores. We'll post one fluxus score an hour, all day long.

We kicked it off on our Twitter feed with Solo for Thanksgiving:

1. Baste yourself
2. Stuff yourself
3. Remain motionless for 15 minutes per pound of body weight.

! Happy Thanksgiving !

Yoko Ono, "Toilet Piece"

Davi Det Hompson, "Lessons"

Lessons
List the difference, in cubic inches,
between your bed and your tub.
List the difference, in square inches,
between your porch and bathroom floors.
1969

100,386

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