FluxTask

1. Get a caterpillar painted across the middle of your face.
2. Get your whole face painted with a rainbow.
3. Get your face painted.
4. Make a snow angel out of the P—
5. Make a necklace and give it to someone you don’t know.
6. Have a nice time!
7. Say hello to someone you don’t know while tapping your head.
8. Hmm I think I’m lonely. This could take awhile. I’m a “complex girl”. I just got my half foam half beer in a cup. I found this chair, this pencil, paper and I’m ready to construct. Maybe someone will see me write this then read it from the bucket and know that I wrote it…no secrets. How can I write this completely anonymously? I might just have to take some of this scrap and build me a secret hideaway. I have to move right now. Another empty chair. I see my roommate. We don’t talk very often. I think she’s lonely too. It’s funny because we could not be lonely if we talked. But I think we detest each other’s loneliness. I run and run and run so I don’t feel it. She sits. I just saw a guy that makes me laugh. Tell the scarecrow story. Nope not lonely. Just scared.
9. Make an ornament out of whatever you can find and give it to someone.
10. Stand up tall on a chair, smile big, and yell “I love days like this!!”
11. Make three tasks.
12. Tell Oliver Herring a secret in the ear.
13. Get everyone in the room whose name starts with “m” to get together and sing “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.
14. Have someone trace your body on the floor. Then draw and paint in your clothes and features.
15. Zip-tie yourself to someone for five to ten minutes.
16. Put a pencil up each nostril. Leave them be for at least two minutes.
17. Find Joey D. and kiss his face.
18. Make fake teeth. Give them to a friend. Sit down for ten minutes.
19. Tell five girls that you are prettier than them.
20. Do your best dance move you know anywhere.
21. Make up a name for yourself that is different from the one you have. Make a new nametag and go by your new name for the next 20 minutes.
22. Pick another task.
23. Start the wave and get the room to join in!!
24. Smile!
25. Pretend to be Godzilla.
26. Make yourself a tree.
27. Try on someone’s jacket.
28. Make your own task and do it.
29. Get a purple triangle painted over your whole face.
30. Give money to a stranger.
31. Make a ball and ask a stranger to play catch.
32. Make up an alter ego and remain him/her for the rest of the evening.
33. Get as many people as you need to lie on the ground and spell your name with their bodies.
34. Find someone you don’t know wearing a scarf. Then while they are wearing it try to make it into a tie.
35. Convince three people to get their faces painted.
36. Make a bowl out of anything that someone can eat out of.
37. Fly three laps around the outside of the stage making airplane noises. (Remember, arms out.)
38. Don’t touch coat.
39. Pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.
40. Rebuild that which has been destroyed. (For ten minutes.)
41. Draw a hopscotch board and play with a stranger.
42. Draw a giant unicorn somewhere noticeable.
43. This task will be a little complicated.
1. Don’t talk to anyone for five minutes. Stand off to the side and just watch. Don’t think, but rather concentrate on hearing and seeing as much as you can.
2. Observe the observer observing. Ask now that you are not a part of it- how many of the interactions you see are a function of this space.
3. Find someone who isn’t talking to anyone and talk to them. Start with “Hi”. Figure out what it means to be authentic and be it.
4. Don’t take complicated tasks seriously.
44. Make a mask representing someone here and wear it while you talk to them.
45. Build a TV and then wear it as a hat. Stupid American.
46. Take a pirate hat off of someone and replace it with a new hat (that you made).
47. Scratch someone’s back.
48. Write a short poem with cellophane tape on the floor.
49. Kiss the bottom of the task bucket.
50. Make a princess crown and give it to someone else to wear.
51. Find someone who looks lonely and tickle them.
52. Lick someone on the nose.
53. Get on chair. Yell, “I love George Bush!” two times.
54. Get at least ten people inside the cellophane wall.
55. Make something you want.
56. Put the task table in another part of the room.
57. Ask someone to teach you yoga. If they don’t know how, take them with you to find someone to teach you both.
58. Slow dance to techno.
59. Draw a box on the stage. Think INSIDE it.
60. Drink some water.
61. Pick a stranger. Follow them around for 15 minutes. Say nothing.
62. Ask everyone to step off the stage.
63. Recite a poem to someone.
64. Go Trout fishing in America. (Build a trout stream if you must – make it look like Neil Young.
65. For five minutes, walk around the room and offer people “to have a snack” from a plate full of cheese doodles. Make a friend.
66. Pretend to fall down! Be imaginative! Do it five times!
67. Tape your thumbs down for five minutes.
68. Illustrate a joke and then tell someone.
69. Write a letter to someone named John, then find John and give it to him.
70. Make a scary mask and then scare someone.
71. Cut a hole in the top of a box. Wear the box as a necklace for five minutes then put it on someone else.
72. Go and pretend to take photos of six people.
73. Get the palette wrap (it’s leaning against one of the columns on the stage); Get a friend or two; palette wrap a scene around the two columns until the palette wrap is gone. Tip: there is a ladder that is leaning against the white brick wall to get it higher.
74. Take some Easter grass and put it in your shirt collar so that it sticks out.
75. Encourage your friend to do something they don’t feel comfortable doing.
76. Stand on a table/chair and do the Macarena.
77. Remove all of Bob’s (the robot) foil. Release the beast.
78. Clean up this table.
79. Make a nametag and wear it.
80. Don’t use verbs for the rest of the evening.
81. Try to hide as many people as possible under the table.
82. Make a representation of a favorite book using whatever is on the stage.
83. Walk around bowing to people but be silent. Show utmost respect.
84. Make ten tasks.
85. Tie yourself to a friend and have fun!
86. Find people and draw on the walls of the large elephant-hiding fort near the task table.
87. Write three new tasks that involve yellow paper.
88. Write ten tasks. Good ones.
89. Make small aluminum balls. Use popsicle sticks to shoot them.
90. Do arts and crafts for five minutes.
91. Hide the task bucket.
92. Reed whistle. Find a piece of grass; tense between thumbs; blow! No grass? Use paper.
93. Find Anton Leiberman and introduce yourself.
94. Find things from the floor and tape them to your face.
95. Get a number from a stranger.
96. Fly a paper airplane over the cellophane wall.
97. Make small balls out of aluminum foil. Shoot them with a popsicle.
98. Take off your socks and use them like double nun-chucks for at least two minutes. Think about “Enter the Dragon”.
99. Grab a marker and draw graffiti on the palm of your hand.
100. Sing a song from your childhood that you are fond of. Do this alone, quietly, in a corner.
101. Make yourself a crown. Wear it for thirty minutes then give it to someone else to wear.
102. Make a foil hat to keep the space invaders from reading your mind.
103. Make yourself a mask of someone you don’t know here and wear it as you introduce yourself to them like, “Hi, I’m you”.
104. Tell five people you’ve never met your parents mailing address.
105. Take care of your closest furthest friend. Make a phone call.
106. Make a dress out of foil and cotton.
107. Make paper airplanes out of 8½ by 11” paper and let them fly here.
108. Decorate the box on Joe’s head.
109. Make a wedding dress.
110. Make a foil Spartan hat and wear it.
111. Start a massive dance party.
112. Organize a small scavenger hunt for an individual of your choice.
113. Challenge someone to a staring contest and let them win.
114. Find someone with a tinfoil hat. Steal it.
115. Get your life in order.
116. Make a neck-tie with two loops and place your neck in one end and a stranger’s in the other. Converse with them.
117. Get everyone in the room to yell, “I love you” at once. Good luck.
118. Ask someone you don’t know to make a crown for you and you for them.
119. Make a feather boa out of toilet paper and give it to the cutest guy you see on your left.
120. Make a person out of food and try to get people to eat it.
121. Pretend you are a character in Lord of the Rings and go on a quest. Don’t forget to talk like the character.
122. Tell someone, “Way to go Einstein!” real sarcastically like a jerk.
123. Make five valentines. Give them to people you’ve never met.
124. Tape four pencils to your face. Then, using the foam stickers on the table, spell out your name and put it on a wall.
125. Start a crab-walking race.
126. Take the popsicle sticks and throw them in the air while acting like a monkey/primate.
127. Shoot your fingers like pistols and make gun noises for awhile.
128. Draw footprints from one side of the stage to the other.
129. Paint someone’s face named John, Sarah, Ted, Matt, Josh, Joe or Chris. Any of those names.
130. Find a friend and play in the blue room.
131. Write a haiku and tape it to your forehead.
132. Hog tie someone who is willing to be hog tied on the stage.
133. Make a turtle shell for yourself and crawl across the floor. Wearing it, duh.
134. Get your face painted!
135. Get a blue circle painted on your face. Huge!
136. Make/ask everyone to play Duck, Duck, Goose or London Bridge.
137. T.P. the scaffolding. (Don’t knock over the stereo and don’t start a fire.)
138. Make four flowers and attach them to the plastic wrap wall.
139. Find Anton Leiberman and ask him to tell you a story.
140. Find someone tall. Measure them.
141. Pretend to wear glasses with your hands for one lap around the room.
142. Have a funeral.
143. Kiss the guy in plastic wrap.
144. Do a mock exercise video with a few people.
145. You just won the lottery! Convince someone they did.
146. Turn a person named Chris into a robot named Bob.
147. Do a crazy dance.
148. Pluck a single hair from the person with the most interesting color.
149. Find who you think is the most beautiful person in the room and tell them so.
150. Become a pirate.
151. Sit down, put a chair on top of you, and squirm around for two minutes. Keep your eyes closed.
152. Make three flowers and attach them to the plastic wrap wall.
153. Make a yellow paper airplane.
154. Pick a stranger, start a conversation with them, and then start repeating whatever they say until they get legitimately angry with you.
155. Dance like a robot with a friend. If you don’t have a friend, make one.
156. Sprint ten laps around the gallery. Go!
157. Find five people wearing shoes with laces. Go untie them and tie their shoes together.
158. Fold this into an airplane; throw it at someone you love.
159. Get the man (Chris) who made the hat people to do jumping jacks.
160. Catapult. Make small aluminum balls. Shoot them with a popsicle stick.
161. Take a piece of paper and a pen. Go up to someone you don’t know and pretend like you’re writing bad things about them. Look at them and shake your head while you do this, then touch their nose and tell them you’ve got your eye on them.
162. Find an attractive person and tell them you think them so.
163. Make up five tasks. You know you want to.
164. Find the woman wrapped in plastic and tear open the wrap with your teeth, setting her free.
165. Draw a picture of either a friend or a stranger and give that picture to them, signed.
166. Make a new friend. Ask them to hold hands with you and spin as fast as possible. Trust each other.
167. Find five to ten people. Make a spectacle of yourselves; create a short dance. Announce it to the world!
168. Find Oliver and give him a task.
169. Make a genuine valentine for a stranger.
170. Find the cardboard house with a red roof draped in toilet paper. Knock, introduce yourself, bring some wine. Chat with the person inside for ten minutes.
171. Clear the task area for twelve minutes. Count while you do it.
172. These drawings were made by looking at each other and drawing without looking down at the paper! Do this task with a friend or stranger.
173. Add names, give names, to the Home Depot cardboard column.
174. Pretend you are Oliver Herring.
175. Make the best hat ever and wear it!!
176. Kiss a stranger on the cheek.
177. Make five flowers and attach them to the saran wrap wall.
178. Start a conga line.
179. Start a conga line minimum of thirty people.
180. Start a dance party with at least seven people!
181. Kiss the person standing nearest you on the cheek.
182. Make a picture frame to frame your face and go up to people and frame their face.
183. Do the Robot.
184. Clean up for goodness sake!
185. Steal back the King’s crown. Take the silver crown from the girl with the winter hat and return the crown to the King. (Ask Warren.)
186. Walk around the room with your finger in your nose.
187. Make an airplane from something and zoom it around the room for five minutes, just like you did when you were ten.
188. Sing your favorite song while walking around the room. Loudly, and the whole song!
189. Find someone. Make them a god. Create a religion. Recruit five people to join said religion.
190. Draw on yellow paper.
191. Fix the hut. Close yourself inside of it for ten minutes. Rip a whole and become “reborn”.
192. Find a stranger. Tell them a secret. One that is truly personal and/or scandalous.
193. Adopt the nickname “soup-kitchen”.
194. Wrap your friend in T.P. Make them pretty.
195. French-kiss the person standing directly to your right.
196. Find Chris (saran wrapped to a pole). Get a beer or cup of wine. Rest it on his foot as if it were an end table. Enjoy the beverage and chat with him. He’s a good guy.
197. Write a story about yourself and put it in the task bucket.
198. Find Gina, black hair, big boobs, and wish her a happy birthday.
199. Steal someone’s nose; give it to the nearest person, repeat ten times.
200. Tell three people you love them then tell them to tell three people they love them and so on.
201. Build something in a precarious place.
202. Find Bridget and kiss her hand.
203. Find someone whose birthday is today (or close to today) and give them the birthday cupcake next to the task bucket.
204. Find a Josh and hug him.
205. Find all the bunched-up used tasks on the table, make something beautiful and give it to your new best friend.
206. Pull out a strand of hair. Use the person on your right.
207. Skip everywhere. Otherwise operate as usual.
208. Sharpen a pencil then break it.
209. This is a self portrait. Find the artist/subject and present him with his portrait! Good luck.
210. Make and wear a hand puppet.
211. Invent a dance and get at least seven people to do it at once.
212. Eat a piece of yellow paper.
213. Get a caterpillar painted across the middle of your face.

This program has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council,
the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The program is also supported in part by the University of the Arts.
Drink generously donated by The Belgian Cafe.
Food has been supplied in all its glory by Freddy and Tony's Restaurant
3001 N Front Street
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