Join us for CCAM Fest: Fluxus, the 2026 edition of Yale CCAM’s interdisciplinary arts festival. This year, CCAM Fest will respond to Fluxus and its expansive range of people, practices, and ways of experiencing art. The program of events at CCAM will be accompanied by a series of Happenings—submit to the Open Call here!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

10am–6pm
Happenings

6:30pm
Live performance of Plant Citizenship Event 1 — Co-Equal Live Set by Daniel Perlin, CCAM Leeds Studio

_{This performance positions the plant as a full musical collaborator and equal citizen within an expanded urban ecology. Electrodes placed on a living plant measure subtle bioelectric fluctuations; these signals are amplified into sound and fed back to the plant through tones that support growth. Over time, the plant shifts its voltage patterns, emphasizing certain frequencies and resisting others—a dynamic behavior that suggests preference, adaptation, or botanical intelligence.}

_{The human performer enters not as conductor, controller, or interpreter, but as one species among many, sounding alongside the plant. Human-generated tones respond to the plant’s shifting electrical activity. The composition unfolds through negotiation between species, circuits, and environments. This work extends Fluxus’s unfinished investigations into nonhuman agency, asserting that cities are already gardens and proposes multispecies music-making as a civic gesture.}

Opening of the exhibition Double-Stapled Möbius Strip, CCAM ISOVIST Gallery, curated by Charlotte Youkilis (CCAM ISOVIST Guest Curator)

^{The exhibition presents works from Mira Dayal’s ongoing “language objects” series alongside a selection of the artist’s research materials and accompanying “instructions” for the sculptures written by artists, curators, writers, and scholars.}

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

10am–6pm
Happenings

Featured Happening: Plant Citizenship Event 2 — Urban Garden Composition by Daniel Perlin

Afternoon workshop with Ivana Dama and Matthew Suttor

6:30pm
Dialogue on RR by Sarah Oppenheimer (Professor in the Practice, Yale School of Art and CCAM Faculty Fellow), CCAM Leeds Studio

With guests: Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois Chicago), Fabian Saavedra Lara (V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, Netherlands), and Wouter Davidts (Ghent University, Belgium)

^{Periodically in flux, RR is a tool, an object, a process, a performance. A networked interface embedded in everyday materials, RR is a radical embrace of the viewer as collaborator and art as play. As viewers enter the system, they are transformed into agents of spatial change. In this event, participants will establish system constraints and consider the variable dynamics that impact the sensing of cause and effect.}

^{A dialogue between Oppenheimer and guests situates RR at the confluence of Fluxus and media art. The event will inform a work-in-progress presentation at V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media in March 2026.}

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26

10am–6pm
Happenings

Afternoon workshop—to be announced!

6:30pm
Evening of Performance Art, CCAM Leeds Studio

Works by Tusia Dabrowska (artist, New Haven/NYC and CCAM MIX Guest Art Director, 2025–2026), Joy Li (Yale School of Art, MFA – Sculpture 2026), and Francisco Morandi Zerpa (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, MFA – Acting, 2026)—and others, to be announced!

Call for Happenings

As part of the Fest, CCAM also announces an Open Call for Happenings throughout the three-day program.

Submit your proposal here for a happening, event score, or similar activity/performance.

The call is open to the public. CCAM will review proposals on a rolling basis until it closes on Sunday, February 8 (11:59pm ET). Early applications are encouraged!