Nicknamed “the Fluxus cabdriver” by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over four decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus artists including George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles. Until recently he was best known for his light projection performances and his Movies for the Blind (based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab). He recently completed GEORGE a documentary portrait of George Maciunas the founder of Fluxus. He has also directed and produced the film The Painter Sam Francis, an endeavor that was itself 40 years in the making. He continues to do performance art, most recently at X-Initiative and Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, at Front Desk Apparatus in New York and Emily Harvey Foundation. HYLE is very happy to host Jeffrey and organize together the two days of conversations and screenings. 

Program: 

Wednesday October 24th at Ύλη[matter]HYLE (Pireos 1, Omonia square – inside the passage way – 2nd floor, ring the bell HYLE)
Cooking, get together, conversations, screenings and performances.

5pm Cooking 
6-7pm Movies for the Blind
7-8pm A selection of performances’ documentations of artist Henry Flynt
*8pm: GEORGE, (a film portrait of George Maciunas), 2017 
*The screening will be followed by a conversation with Jeffrey Perkins

Thursday October 25th at Embros Theater (Riga Palamidou 2, Psiri)
9pm: GEORGE, (a film portrait of George Maciunas), 2017