‘,.BEINGIN FLUXUS”-¨
Being in Fluxus is an audiowalk for two people.
During the audiowalk you participate in one-on-one playful tasks around the local area of Roskilde centrum. Step-by-step you are invited to explore the city as a playground and as a way to break out of habitual use of public space.
Both listeners decides where they wish to go and how to solve the tasks they are told. Listeners are given multiple tasks. Among other is to play hide and seek, pretend to be organic altering beings, to follow unknown sounds and signals, to find a ”private place to them” etc.
When you are two in the audiowalk you’re in a transactive relation. You can explore this mutual connection, challenge it, deny it’s presence and so on, making space for play with one another.
FESTIVAL OF FANTASTICS
The audiowalk commemorates the Fluxus movement and the festival of fantastics, which took place in Roskilde in 1976. At this event Fluxus artists held performances around the central area of Roskilde making use of public space in performative and playful manners iconic to the fluxus movement.
Being in Fluxus is made in collaboration with artist KamillaAskholm. Being in Fluxus was originally a live roleplay scenario for 6 people, in which players performed original fluxus scores as part of the fictional narrative. Both artists we’re invited to participate with Being In Fluxus for the exhibition series GAMES during Covid Lockdown. But because of the social restraints the artists decided to createan experience which could be enjoyed together and apart at the same time, while being in accordance with the Fluxus spirit of play.
SETUP
The listeners is handed a map of the local area along with basic directions together with the online link for the audiowalk.The map is a way to trace where you are or where you have moved to. It’s considered to be a tool for the listeners, to make use of, or not.
On the back of the map is an image which showsthe different spots and venues, where the Festival of Fantastics took place in 1976. The mapping creates arandom pattern justlike the possible random patternscreatedwhen venturing out on the audiowalk.
AUDIOWALK LINK:
https://podcastforsamtidskunst.podbean.com/e/being-in-fluxus-af-kamilla-askholm-j%C3%B8rgensen-og-nilas-dumstrei/
Excerpts
“We welcome you to Being In Fluxus.
Please enter the courtyard of the museum
to receive your introduction
to receive your player names
to begin your experience”
now X take notis of Z.. we will do a small excercise...
Now Z, its your turn to lead yourself and X somewhere new
...
This time well try to explore the city by going to a place you can only hear but cannot see
....
Z you lead the way
....
Ass you start to walk....
CREDITS
Sounddesign and social design: Nilas Dumstrei & Kamilla Askholm.
Special thanks to Roskilde Museum for Samtidskunst.
links:
Kamilla Askholm
https://kamillaaskholmjorgensen.com/being-in-fluxus?fbclid=IwAR3l0U_xaZcNDfZLT3W7OPocEIzFkFVV53v3DeTUA6bi-DQEW__mM1NmEv8
Sounddesign and social design: Nilas Dumstrei & Kamilla Askholm.
Special thanks to Roskilde Museum for Samtidskunst.
links:
Kamilla Askholm
https://kamillaaskholmjorgensen.com/being-in-fluxus?fbclid=IwAR3l0U_xaZcNDfZLT3W7OPocEIzFkFVV53v3DeTUA6bi-DQEW__mM1NmEv8