Brains were engaged, art thoughts were emitted, connections were forged.  It was as easy as cake.

February 9th – 12th, 2012
“International Fluxus is gearing up for 4 days of performance and activity in Chicago this February, and are hoping that everyone who can, will join in the festival.”  from the Fluxus Blog 

Day de Dada will be at the Chicago FluxFest  performing scores by  Staten Island Dada artists Mary Campbell, Viv de Dada, Reuben Sandwich, Milenka Berengolc, Nici Poris, Darrell and Lys Riganti. Since this event falls on the Second Saturday in February we will link arms symbolically from Chicago to Staten Island Second Saturday 

Highlights of the event will include

Fluxus Day at the Chicago Cultural Center, 

FLUX IT YOURSELF : Scores and Performances by Contemporary Fluxus  Center For Book Arts

Write Now – Artists And Letterforms  A major exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center that showcases  The ” Fluxus, Mailart, and Visual Poetry Project ”

The New York Correspondence School of Chicago Dinner

Flux Film Fest ” @ 6018 NORTH.

check our twitter feed  @DaydeDada for updates

Teeny Tiny Tea Party
“Take some more tea!” It’s time to use the tea sets to socialize….

Alice – Ecila
“I’ve been shrunk, stretched,
scratched and stuffed into a
teapot!”

The Grin of the Cheshire Cat
“You know we could make her really
angry! Shall we try?”

Mad Hatter
“There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of
wonders, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it;
you need to be as mad as a hatter.”

Choose!
Play a game of chance and intrigue.
Every playing card holds a key. – choose
one – find out what the White Queen
commands!

Much of a Muchness

Once upon a time there were three little sisters… and they lived at the bottom of a well…. What M word can they draw for you?

ANOTHERalice
Interrogative filming that mixes recitation
and improvisation, inspired guests perform
ing… All the world’s a stage today!

“Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you join the
dance?”

Red Queen  “Off with their heads!”

Staten Island Museum, 75 Stuyvesant Place, SI, NY 10301

Sat Dec 10 7-11 pm

  Free for Museum members/ $5 for non-members

“Are you Alice?” is the question on everyone’s lips lately. Whether you are, or aren’t the little blonde in blue, the Queen of Hearts or just a card, you are invited to explore “Wonderland” at the St. George Ball with Day de Dada on Saturday, December 10 at the Staten Island Museum, 7:00 – 11:00pm. Wonderland is an interactive party with wildly interesting performances inspired by the story of Alice and her journey being carried out throughout the night’s festivities in every curious corner, courtyard and couloir.

Here’s what you can expect to find at Wonderland:

Nicie Poris, Lys Riganti,  Rachel Jensen “Much of a Muchness”

`Once upon a time there were three little sisters, and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well….They were learning to draw, and they drew all manner of things–everything that begins with an M–’

Vivian Vassar   “Choose !”

The White Queen invites the audience to play a game  of chance and intrigue.  Every playing card holds a key – choose one  - find out what your Queen commands !

Leslie Lowe  ”the Grin of the Cheshire Cat”

Richard Plunkett   Michael Tuscarelli  

The museum courtyard, installation, sound, couriouser and couriouser

Mary Campbell   “The Lobster Quadrille”

Dance in the style of square dancing to quadrille music songs created from the poem in “Alice in Wonderland”

 MT_ L. Brandon Krall   “ANOTHERalice”

ANOTHERalice is a new form of ‘interrogative filming’ that mixes recitation + improvisation, from costumed and inspired Guests performing_ All the world’s a stage on December 10th

 Jonathan Leiter

Reuben Sandwich may be the Knave of Hearts – will he or won’t he give up those tarts ?

Michele Guttenberg   “Queen of Hearts”

Clothing painted, worn and  inhabited to become the Red Queen.

 Jim Jeffers  “White Rabbit”

Tell the white rabbit an adventure story (autobiographical or fantastic) and receive an origami white rabbit…

Phil Sanders  

An interactive digital illusion to help you go down the rabbit hole and back up again.

Ned Sessa   “Self-Nedicated*”

Expect: spontaneous off-tha-dome beatbox beats & rhymes combined with synthesized Kao$.  In addition: A dj set including everything danceable under tha sun. “Free your mind and your ass will follow.”

Mark Semanchik   “Are you Alice? “

Over the last few months people in Staten Island have answered the question “Are you Alice?”  Their video taped answers will play and viewers will be enticed to ask themselves the same question ….

Francesca Leoni & Davide Mastrangelo of CON-TATTO    “Wonder-Land?”

Where or what is wonderland? this is the question we wanted to answer in our video performance, using the eyes of a contemporary Alice as the point of view.  Is wonderland real? Or is just a dream?  We invite the viewers to take the place of Alice and find an answer.

Elektromotif- Marguerite Rivas, Doug Prinicipato and Will Wynn  “The Mad Tea Party Jam”

The Mad Tea Party Jam, a poetry/music improvisation with ElektroMótif, featuring Wil Wynn, Marguerite Maria Rivas, and The Grand Pepper of Reality.

Nan Smith “Alice – Ecila”

Alice explores the magical world of wonderland filled with fantastic mythical imaginary creatures.  Inner and outer mind alive.

Helen Levin   “Percussive Fandango Stomp”

Joanna Dawe and Amelia Sanders will lead Helen Levins “Percussive Fandango” To celebrate the GESTURE show, THE GESTURE IN PAINT AND SOFTWARE, add “Human” Software to the list, and with our bodies celebrate gesture in a  ”stomp”  The audience will add the sound and the movement while Flamenco music plays.

Ed Weiss   “Alice Austen’s Amazing Adventures in the Wonderland of Staten Island.”   (Part of the Forgotten History of Staten Island series)

John Foxell  “My Friends “

An installation of assemblages and sculptures by Staten Island artists John Foxell using found objects collected on his daily walks and travels through Wonderland.

Bobaloo  “Wandering Minstrel”

Bobbaloo, well known Staten Island musician and storyteller, leads the way through Wonderland.  Follow the pipes ……

Joy Ryder  “White Rabbit”

Joy Rider leads us all in a singalong of “White Rabbit”  song from Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow

and Brendan Coyle as the Mad Hatter (of course)

CON-TATTO is a video performance art company created by Francesca Leoni and Davide Mastrangelo, that creates videos, live performances and installations. (photograph by Emiliano Campores )

“Are you Alice ?”

We need to find her for “Wonderland” at the St George Ball at the Staten Island Museum.  If you see her, give her this card…. she’ll know what to do.

Anyone could be Alice.  Are you Alice?

Come to “Wonderland” at the St George Ball and find out.  December 10th 2011 Staten Island Museum

A Moveable Fluxfest

five days of events in and throughout New York

Tuesday April 12, 7 pm at Tribes Gallery, 285 East Third street (Ave C)

•  DADA Machine FLUXUS- new score

Wednesday April1 13, 5pm at Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue (21st street),

• “Inside/Outside Fluxus”- Performance and Readings

Wednesday April 13 7:30 Katz’s Deli , 205 E Houston St,

•   New York Correspondence School Dinner

Thursday April 14, 7:15pm at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street,

• “Flux Alive”- performance

Friday April 15, 1pm at Imagine Mosaic, Strawberry Fields in Central Park (CPW & 72nd St),

• “Fluxguerilla”

Saturday April 16, meet at 12:15 pm Manhattan Whitehall Ferry Terminal for the Staten Island Ferry,

•  “Flux Zig Zag” Staten Island, afternoon of performance/scores on Staten Island

 Lumen Art Off at Art at Bay 5-6pm  “What do you see?”

  ooo yeah, naked women and empty space, wires, white walls, black and white collage and in the back room some industrial paintings that I like.  I see a friendly atmosphere.

Art, I like what I’m looking at now. I like the use of pencil or charcoal. I like the depiction of the human form. This all new to me.

I see amazing paintings.  Industrial scenes, buildings, dust coated, water tanks, images of towers, water towers smoke stacks, furnaces that used to burn steel in Bethlehem Steel.  All oil, very colorful, bright colors, shading , some fine lines, detail in some, very reminiscent of Charles Demuth and Charles Scheeler of the Percisionist Movement.

I see a seaside art venue, packed with Chili Chompers.

There is a great fixin’s bar for the chili, extremely impressive.  3 D people and 2 D People.

Assembly Room 6:30 to 7:30 pm “What do you see?”

Music, set up, equipment, stuffed animals laying dead on the floor, spattered art framed in gold with red strigs/liflines connecting them.  I see silver glitter belts, layers of houndstooth, tall girls in layers of patterned fabric, tops hats and ritualistic sacrifices. 

I see chaos yet coherence.  I see the reimbodiment of imagination, um, I see the truth.  All I see is crazy shit.  I see dreams of bababies dancing and masks bursting into dust.  That’s where I saw the aliens.

I see a lot of new art and young people.  I like the  photos of the girl with the tape on the mouth.  The Barbie legs are very unusual it makes me want to do something like it.  There are certain social aspects in the pieces. 

“What do you see?”

Oh Viv, amazing, it’s like Andy Kaufman.  Off the record, both the best and worst childhood at the same time.

Deep Tanks 8 to 9 pm ”What do you see?”

I see um, white radiator grids and dead fish.

I see um, primary colors .

I see beautiful butterflies emerging out of their coccoons, I  see lots of Rorsach Ink blots, and lots of happy people.

I see artists working, forests, men, sorry somebodies, my Mom, responding to stress.

Over  there, someone.  I don’t know them.  Should I know them? Hmmmmm

2010 Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke Virginia.    And Day de Dada was there.  Along with the Art Nurses, Big Liar (was he there? are you sure ?) and the Art Grant Fairy.  The 3 Art Nurses cured a few art works at the Taubman Museum, soothed a few artistic bruised egos and were crowned Queens of the Festival along with King Ralph.  Dada Dollars were freely dispensed to the worthy and the unworthy.

Stuffed animals were unstuffed and restuffed into new and twisted forms, bubble wrap exploded and pianos were “re-tuned.”  Art was paraded and reconstructed with puppets, drums and accordions.

  And an Art Rat finally, bravely ran to the ground but (I’m sure) will rise again next year.  We wondered - Can ladders reach that high?  or just chairs at the Labyrinth…. and can that many events happen at the same time ?  Yes, they can.

First - there is Fluxus Piano Push

Then –  there is Fluxus Piano Music

On Saturday, the crew at the “Flux Mazz” gave out bread freely and applied it vigorously with the loaf and one piece at a time.   Zierle and Carter collected what we treasure and set it free.  A little rain did not dampen spirits – the Marginal Arts Festival will ride again!  

Fluxfest Chicago Art Nurse Creative Pulse Report:

Tell us about any scars caused by art:

• Sgraffito
• Back hurts from doing college art projects.
• All scars & changes lie beneath the surface.
• I painted a punk rock album in a high school art class.  The teacher didn’t like it.  I though it was pretty good fo my first & only artistic atempt.  I have never attemtped to paint again.
• I carve in a checker box sort of thing into my wrist.  It looks a lot like this even though it looks crazy it looks like a checker print.
• Once I sew my scars though it heals: felt inside.  I wasn’t so I sew to try to use the pain as art.
• I have more hair and my voice has gotten lower.  When I climb the rope in gym class, I feel funny.
• Descending the staircase, fell into the arms of a waiting venus.  Got all wet.
• amputation of 6th (vestigal) finger.
• Paper cuts
• I was making a snow flake and I cut myself with my scissors.
• In the palm of my hand from scraping a palette with a razor blade.

Tell us something we need to know about your creative brain.

• It operates the best while working on a given project and adapting that project to my own.
• Works best when presented with a problem to solve.
• I’m a jerk !
• I can’t really put it into words.
• I am creative.
• I am a teacher.
• Art has caused me to smile for the whole day.
• I compartmentalize the way I approach art.
• I draw from what’s around me.
• Mental Scars.
• It is always in motion.
• I play piano, violin, viola and bass.
• I can make a game to play within 5 mins.
• It is always in motion.  It is always in motion.
• It is very wide and undiscovered yet.  Unfortunately !
• I’m nervous when it is unnecessary.  Sometimes just accepting that leads to greater creativity.

What body part do you use the most when you are being creative ?

• Eyes – straining to see the light trying to know want invincible eyes.
• My arms and it feels good.
• Stomach – tight flutter, excited, twisty, tight
• My heart, and it feels freeing.  My heart feels bigger and more open.  When I collaborate it’s like a bunch of hearts beating together.
• My stomach.  It vibrates.  It hurts a lot but it never hurts when I’m beeing creative.  I love feeling my stomach living, talking.
• Right Hand – Relaxing.  I can tune out everything around me, and focus on a single task.
• I use my hands, I constantly have to feel everything I am doing.  I can feel the emotion flow through it.  It’s incredible.
• wrist – liberating & sometimes painful.
• Hands warm.
• Head big.
• My eyes; it makes my head hurt.
• My brain feels like it has eyes, ears, and feet when I am being creative.
• My brain because I think of ideas. That’s pretty much where all my art comes from, my mind.  I use my hands and eyes to execute those ideas but they originate in my brain.
• The pencil bit me.
• Feet * not bad today.
• Eyes.  They feel strained.  I need to see what I am making / creating in order to actually produce something.
• My head

How does creativity affect your body?

• It puts holes in it and metal things in the holes.
• Positively
• Infectiously & with rage and intimate tenderness.
• Sometimes it makes me cry and my head aches.  Sometimes it makes me feel egotistical.  Sometimes it floods my body with a feeling of excitement.  It can be confusing.
• I feel like writing poetry.
• Whenever I feel down or sick expressing my creativity releases a great feeling through my body.
• I feel part of a bigger world.  My body is satisfied.
• It gives me energy.  It is what I live in.
• Go Liberation movements.  Tweet On!
• It makes me happy
• My hat has attached to my head.
• Makes me ache, makes me tired, makes me long for more.

Slide Show from "Glow"

On Saturday December 11th, 2010 Day de Dada artists met at the Staten Island Museum  for “Glow” at the annual St George Ball.

The “Glow” Art Party included performances and installations on every floor of the Staten Island Museum.  Partygoers were able to greet a gorilla, find out their net worth as a walking talking art piece, choose a pat down or a hug, watch interactive  projections on the wall, meet a Dragonfly and sample a special dada brew.  Psychoanalysts were on hand to turn deepest dreams and desires into poetry.  Installations included sculptures of fantastical animals, the shifting lights of Clowntrodden, black and white figures and florescent rocks.  Even the plastic cups used at the celebration turned into a family of walking sculptures.  All together over 20 artists participated and helped to create a dada filled evening with a willing audience and a museum that knows how to throw a party.

Artists who participated in Glow include:

Brendan Coyle   “Clowntrodden”

Amanda Curtis   ”Prismatic Mouse”

Michele Guttenberg    ”Mistress of Wearable Art”

Viv de Dada    “Dotty for Dada”

Mark Semanchik and Taylor Moore   “Minute 15 Random Chance DJ”

Domi Clout   “Crystal”

Phil Sanders   ”Wun(der)Kammer/a”

DB Lampman   “Cup Garden”

Richard Plunkett   “Elephant, Polar Bear and Deer”

Jim Jeffers   “Close Encounters (Superhero Action)”

Typewriter Girls   “ The Poetry Cure”

Tamara Wyndham    ”Pocket Lady”

Minnie Van Driver   “Miss Eau de Dada 1927′s Good Taste Tastes Good Salon”

Louis Vassar Semanchik   ”The Greeting Gorilla”

Mary Campbell  ”Dragonfly de Dada”

Barbara Lubliner   “Lady Muscle Celebrating Powerful Nurturing Women in the Ranks and at
the Helm of the Staten Island Museum”

Leslie Lowe   “Radiate”