FLUXUS - FLUXUS AND FOOD EVENTS - 2005-02-08

Ten Food Events at the Court Café (British Museum Performance)

Unannounced performance at The British Museum Court Café
London
March 20, 2004

Performance notes and scores

Last month, we performed an Albert Fine piece at The British Museum. We
followed the piece with a performance of Dick Higgins?s Danger Music Fifteen
at the Court Café. Today, we performed a concert of food events at the Court
Café. We started with Danger Music and ended with Heat Transfer Event.

Following the performance, we ate.
The scores appear below.
1
Work with butter and eggs for a time.
2
A watermelon. A lemon. A pear.
3
Give the water still form. Let the water loose its still form.
4
Eat an orange as if it were an apple. (Hold it, unpeeled, between
forefinger, middle finger and thumb, bite big mouthfuls, etc.).
5
Eat an orange and at the same time, listen attentively: to sounds of
chewing, of sucking, of swallowing, and external sounds that may come.
6
Bottle of water. Fill glass with water from bottle. Return water from glass
back into bottle. Fill glass and repeat procedure as above. Many times till
all water is spilled.
7
Shaking. Slow dripping. Fast dripping. Small stream. Pouring. Splashing.
Opening corked bottle. Roll bottle. Drop bottle. Strike bottle with glass.
Break glass. Gargle. Drink. Sipping. Rinsing mouth. Spitting.
8
Make a salad.
9
Chew a nice piece of notebook or drawing paper.
10
Glasses: one filled with ice water, one with boiling tea, one or more empty
glasses. Liquids are transferred from glass to glass until the tea is cooled
to drinking temperature.

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