A Performance Calendar Retrospective
a FLUXUS pop-up gallery show | August 2022
Drawing on practices from the Fluxus experimental art movement, Performance Calendar is an on-going, collaborative project by percussionist/interdisciplinary artist Indigo Cook. The work is structured around the composition and realization of a new Fluxus performance event score each month of the year from January 2019-present.
The project originally began with Cook’s realization of Fluxus composer Don Boyd’s 1989 piece A Performance Calendar (for El Djerrida). For each month in 2019, Cook performed a different text score, responding to and interpreting written instructions by Boyd.
Performance Calendar has since expanded into a continuous Flux performance with a new 12-part score each year, a collaborative roster of 21 artists and counting, and no end in sight.
A Performance Calendar Retrospective featured archival material and live performances of excerpts from the 44 Fluxus scores created thus far. The gallery was presented on August 26, 2022 at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City.
For Whom? Anyone.
When? Anytime.
- Don Boyd
Live Excerpt Schedule
6:00-6:45pm - January PC22
Dani Mendez, model
6:15pm - April PC22
Sara Caldiero and Indigo Cook, vocals
6:45pm - Past Sounds Future (February PC20)
Indigo Cook, vocals
Sara Caldiero and Nathaniel Woolley, dance
7pm - YHLQMDLG (March PC21)
7:20pm - Aria (July PC20)
Sara Caldiero, Indigo Cook, Katelynn Killian, Joshua Mora, and Nathaniel Woolley, dance
7:40pm-8:00pm - Unidentified Subject (April PC21)
Nathaniel Woolley, dance and vocals
8:00-8:45pm - June PC22
Joshua Mora, dance
8:00pm - Unidentified Subject (April PC21)
Indigo Cook, music
Nathaniel Woolley, dance and vocals
8:45pm - FLUXConcert
Sara Caldiero, Elijah Cook, Indigo Cook, Katelynn Killian, Joshua Mora, and Nathaniel Woolley
FLUXConcert
Three Lamp Events, George Brecht
Piece for Any Number of Vocalists, Alison Knowles,
Lying Ceremony, Milan Knizak
Wake Me Up When September Ends, Green Day
Special thanks to Salt Lake City Arts Council, Helper Art Space, and Trolley Square
