Performance Calendar 2019
Yearlong realization of Fluxus composer Don Boyd’s 1989 piece A Performance Calendar (For El Djerrida).
Performed by Indigo Cook.
“For whom? Anyone. / When? Anytime.”
January
Obey all laws 30 days. One day disobey one law.
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41-6a-1003
February
Make a work with the fewest elements possible. One item?
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after Alison Knowles’ Proposition #1: Make a Salad
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.
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performed with Uinta Cook and Lauren Paniati in San Rafael, Dominican Republic
June
Find a sheep. Watch it 30 minutes.
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performed at Wheeler Farm, Salt Lake City, UT
July
Find a wolf. Watch it 30 minutes.
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performed at Glacier National Park, WY
August
Write a letter to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service or the equivalent tax income authority where you live), explaining how difficult it is to achieve lofty dryness.
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performed with Uinta Cook
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.
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performed with Connor and Soleil Lilley
December
Give something you treasure to another person.