Performance artists of all varieties  are welcome and encouraged to submit proposals. There will be four main performance spaces, all of which will be occupied simultaneously with a line-up performing for a transient audience.

Compensation in the form of tax deduction for services rendered can be provided.

Specific information to include in your submission: Can your performance adapt to a space? What technical or logistical accommodations will your performance need? What is the estimated time length of you piece? All submissions will be considered, these questions are pertinent in creating performance space line ups.

The deadline is August 30. Submissions should be sent to Chess@fluxfactory.org with “Performance Art Submission” in the subject line. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Flux Factory is pleased to announce the third annual Going Places (Doing Stuff) artist-led bus tours!  Think of it as “adventure as performance art.” The content of the tours is entirely up to the artist, and destinations are kept secret. Artists have “carte blanche” to lead a bus-full of people on an odyssey around the greater New York/Quad-State area.

Before each tour, we provide only the following information: artists’ name, title of adventure, duration, and a list of needed supplies. In other words, when people sign up for a tour, they know what to bring and how long they’ll be gone, but will have no idea where they’re going or what they’ll experience. Last year’s adventures included ziplining to swimming holes, breaking world records, a trip to an abandoned mental asylum, a demolition derby, and camping in the rain.

Things that may or may not occur:
-Back of the bus juice
-Partial or total immersion in various bodies of water
-Impromptu dance parties
-Mesmerizing encounters with astonishing and unexpected fleeting beauty that will vanish before you can grasp it, leaving you with indescribable feelings of Baudelairian melancholy and enlightenment
-Roaring
-Life-affirming encounters with extraordinary individuals and their extraordinary pursuits

The tours will be on board a school bus propelled by vegetable oil provided by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.

All tours are first-come, first-serve. Tickets go on sale one week before each tour. They go like hotcakes.  We ask that you only sign up for one  (to spread the wealth).  All tours are $20, unless otherwise noted.  No phone calls please!

Going Places, Doing Stuff III Dates:

July 10 Liz Barry, Yoni Brook, Jason Eppink & Bill Wetzel: Rock the Block

July 17-18 (Overnight) Jeff Stark & A’yen Tran: Camp!

July 24 Rachelle House, Lacey Tauber & Marin Tockman: I <3 Townies

August 7 Josh Bernstein, Moses Gates, Matt Levy & Moira Williams: Wild Tilly’s Circus Story

August 14 David Horvitz: 500 Golden Buddhas and the Speed of Water

August 21 Marie Lorenz: Ghost Ships of the Kills

August 28 Margaret Coleman: Demonstrations of Aptitude

Curated by Jean Barberis and Georgia Muenster.

For questions or interviews for which we can only provide extremely vague and evasive answers due to the secretive nature of this project, please email georgia@fluxfactory.org.

For information about the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, click here.

Going Places (Doing Stuff) III is made possible in part through support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Carnegie Corporation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.