Details

NOTE: CCAM Fest is continuing as planned! In making your way to join us from near or far, keep warm and be safe—please exercise your best judgment. All events take place at CCAM, 149 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 unless otherwise noted.

Program

Tuesday, February 24

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10am–6pm
Happenings (listed below—scroll down far!)

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6:30–8:30pm, CCAM Leeds Studio & CCAM ISOVIST Gallery
Opening Event (with refreshments!):

COTTON CANDY by Dana Karwas

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

Place a plant and a human on stage. Connect the plant to sound equipment. Let each performer play in response to the other. Do not lead.

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

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. After the opening, it will remain on view from 10am–6pm, Monday to Friday, through March 27, 2026.

Wednesday, February 25

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10am–6pm
Happenings (listed below—scroll down far!)

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10am–10:30am, CCAM Leeds Studio
Screening of Selected Short Films by Thomas Allen Harris (Professor in the Practice, Film and Media Studies & Black Studies, Yale University) (with coffee!)

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10am–12:30pm, CCAM Leeds Studio
Screening of Fluxfilm Anthology (with coffee!)
With remarks by Brian Meacham (Managing Archivist, Yale Film Archive)

Fluxfilm Anthology gathers 37 short films by Fluxus artists—including Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and more. Presented by CCAM in collaboration with EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix) and Anthology Film Archives, with special thanks to Brian Meacham and the Yale Film Archive.

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1:15–2:15pm, CCAM Lobby
Fluxus-Themed Arts Library Pop-Up by Erin Carney (Arts Librarian Drama/Theater/Performance Studies, CCAM Studio Fellow)

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2–3:30pm, CCAM Leeds Studio
Sirens and Sunflowers: A workshop with Ivana Dama, Aubrey Moore, and Matthew Suttor

Sirens & Sunflowers is a hands-on workshop exploring the siren disk as a performative and compositional tool. A siren disk is a rotating disk with patterned holes that produces sound as air passes through—its spinning perforations interrupt airflow to generate precise, measurable tones. Participants will devise short Fluxus-style actions and concise scores informed by the mathematical geometry of sunflower patterns.

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6:30–8:30pm, CCAM Leeds Studio
RR: in Dialogue by Sarah Oppenheimer (Professor in the Practice, Yale School of Art and CCAM Faculty Fellow), CCAM Leeds Studio

With guests: Wouter Davidts (Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning and the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies, Ghent University, Belgium), Hannah Higgins (Professor of Intermedia and Avant-Garde Art and Culture, University of Illinois Chicago), and Fabian Saavedra Lara (Director, V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, Netherlands)

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

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10am–6pm
Happenings (listed below—scroll down far!)

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6:30–8:30pm, CCAM Leeds Studio
Evening of Performance Art

OAK by Tusia Dabrowska (Artist, New Haven/NYC and CCAM MIX Guest Art Director, 2025–2026). Performed by Fabiola Andújar (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale – MFA, 2028), Marian Del Valle Torres (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale – MFA, Acting, 2028), and Montana Simone (Yale School of Art – MFA, Sculpture, 2027). Projection Design by Wiktor Freifeld (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale – MFA, Design–Projections, 2026 and CCAM MIX Guest Art Director, 2025–2026) 

Our Ephemeral Eternity. Our Love. Our Ordinary Battlefield by and performed by Joy Li (Yale School of Art, MFA – Sculpture 2026) 

Love, David by and performed by Francisco Morandi Zerpa (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, MFA – Acting, 2026). Adapted verbatim from the tape journals of David Wojnarowicz. 

A Drink with Giulia by and performed by Raquel Nache López (RUFA) 

Fragments of Being by and performed by Julia Navarro de Vasconcelos (RUFA) 

Heaven is a Place on Earth by and performed by Bianca Poláková (RUFA) 

Lighting design by Larry Ortiz (David Geffen School of Drama – MFA, Design–Lighting Design, 2026)

Curated by Lauren Dubowski (David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, DFA, MFA–Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, 2023, 2014) (Yale/New Haven performances) and Marta Jovanović (Performance Artist; Professor and Coordinator, Visual Arts Department; RUFA) & Elise Morrison (Assistant Professor; Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Yale University) (RUFA performances).

* RUFA students Heather Susanna Roach, Yarden Sason, Kateryna Sopielkina, and Ada Uygan will perform or have their work performed as part of the Happenings!

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9–10pm, Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture, 73 Howe Street, New Haven, CT
Closing Event (with refreshments!): Live performance of Plant Citizenship Event 2 — Urban Garden Composition by Daniel Perlin

This performance positions the plant as a musical collaborator within an expanded urban ecology. Electrodes measure its bioelectric fluctuations, amplify them into sound, and feed them back; over time, the plant shifts its voltage patterns, emphasizing certain frequencies and resisting others. The human performer sounds alongside the plant as one species among many—the work proposes multispecies music-making as a small but radical civic gesture. 

Happenings

As part of the Fest, CCAM also announced an Open Call for Happenings to take place throughout the three-day program. More than 40 Happenings, created by participants from Yale and New Haven, near and far, were selected! Catch as many as you can between 10am and 6pm each day of the Fest at and around CCAM, Yale's campus, and in New Haven—preceding our main programming at CCAM as listed above.

Tuesday, February 24

• 10:45–11:30am, CCAM Leeds Studio: "toward" a Dérive "movement": Improvisations in minor circles, suspended chords; a territory or map; S. D. 'Sabri' is: "Shamz" a.k.a. "max Res" 

• 1–1:45pm, CCAM Leeds Studio: We don't know what we are doing; Danielle Giroux 

• 1:30–3:30pm, 220 York Street, Ballroom (Room 101): Modes of Performance (Yale Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies course taught by Elise Morrison); Sage Bonta, Allison Calkins, Olivia Catayong, Radhika Garapaty, AJ Jones, Hannah Shinder, Cayley Tolbert-Schwartz, Emma Ventresca, Sophia Williams 

• 3–5pm, Cross Campus, 110 Wall Street: An Argument with Asphalt, in Three Parts; Signe Ferguson 

• 3–6pm, CCAM Lobby: Network of Time; Jesse Ward 

• 3:30–5:55pm, CCAM Fellows' Studio (Room 113): Translation Without Original; Paula Martin Rivero 

• 4–6pm, Yale School of Art, Green Hall Gallery – Hallway, 1156 Chapel Street: Event for One Fold; Sok Song 

• 5:30–6pm, 305 Crown Street, Basement: Health Circus; Saskia Globig, Georgia Petersen, Camille Gwise, Camille Chang, Erol Scott Harris, Peter Fulweiler, Aliyah Efotte, Michael Ipsen, Geena Framm, Kayl Carroll, Alana Ceppetelli, Tobias Matz 

• 7:30–8:30pm, CCAM Lobby: Score with long fabric; Camille Gwise, Saskia Globig 

Wednesday, February 25

• 11am–4pm, CCAM Lobby: Gummy Bear Machine; Ganling Zhou 

• 11am–1pm, Jonathan Edwards College, 68 High Street: An Argument with Asphalt, in Three Parts; Signe Ferguson 

• 12–3pm, CCAM Courtyard: Peripheral Absence; McKenna Sabon, Aysel Aziz 

• 1–1:20pm, Yale School of Art, Green Hall Steps, 1156 Chapel Street: A score for holding; Izza Alyssa, Siyu Chen, Stella Chen, Saskia Globig, Camille Gwise, Charitssa Stone 

• 1:30–3pm, Yale Commons Dining Hall, Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove Street: A Typical Italian Dinner / Una Tipica Cena Italiana; Heather Susanna Roach (RUFA) 

• 1:30–3pm, Yale Commons Dining Hall, Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove Street; & various locations throughout the Fest: A Drink with Giulia; Raquel Nache Lopez (RUFA) 

• 1:30–2:30pm, Wendy Wasserstein Room, 149 York Street: Selfsame Sky; Timothy Hartel 

• 1:30–4:30pm, Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street, Room 107: Woman TransFORMS // different shapes of bread; Anushka Switaj 

• 3–4pm, Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove Street, Dance Studio: Parents in the Avant Garde: Yale "SCRIBBLE SCORES"; Matthew Mottel, Nicole Lattuca 

• 3–6pm, CCAM Lobby: Network of Time; Jesse Ward 

• 4–6pm, CCAM Lobby Library: The AfroSurreal/STEAM Library by the STEAM Collective; Rochelle Spencer, Jina Ortiz, Peter McKay, Serena Simpson 

• 4–6pm, CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110): Movement Through the Machine; Shristi Singh 

• 5:30–6pm, 305 Crown Street, Basement: Buy an Urn! (selection from the play "sort" and story circle); Ida Cuttler, Georgia Petersen, Emilee Biles, Francisco Morandi Zerpa, Catherine Young, Zoe Jensen 

Thursday, February 26

• 9–10am, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, Sledding Hill: In Inflation; Hana Pera Aoake, Matthew Suttor 

• 11am–4pm, CCAM Lobby: Gummy Bear Machine; Ganling Zhou 

• 11–11:45am, CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110): Ninni (Lullaby); Ada Uygan (RUFA) 
• 11:45am–2:45pm, Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High Street, Room 214A: I am not a war journalist; Izza Alyssa 

• 12–12:45pm, CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110): Enjoy your evening; Kateryna Sopielkina (RUFA) 

• 12–6pm, CCAM Lobby: Drop the Gaze; YiHsing (Kayla) Chen 

• 1–3pm, New Haven Green: An Argument with Asphalt, in Three Parts; Signe Ferguson 

• 1:30–2:30pm, 149 York Street, Wendy Wasserstein Room (Room 107): Selfsame Sky; Timothy Hartel 

• 1–2pm, CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110): DRAW MAPS!; Zack Hann 

• 1:45–2:30pm, CCAM Leeds Studio: Play Through the Conduit; Sim Surreal 

• 2–2:30pm & 3–3:30pm, Various locations starting at CCAM Lobby: Yield! One Way! Stop!; Brett Ascarelli 

• 2–3pm, CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110): Play Through the Conduit; Sim Surreal 

• 3:30–4:30pm, CCAM Lobby & various locations throughout the Fest: One Day You Will Do the Same for Your Daughter; Yarden Sason (RUFA) 

• 3–6pm, CCAM Lobby: Network of Time; Jesse Ward 

• 5–5:30pm, CCAM Back Parking Lot, High Street near the intersection with York Street: improv as prophecy; Esther Orlov-Mayer, Aru Apaza 

Ongoing Works & Installations

• Various Locations: Measuring Yale; Reto Chen 

• Next to CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110): The Global Institute for Transportation Research, Discourse, and Analysis: Cartography Division; Sophia Collender 

• CCAM Lobby: Instructions for CCAM Fest: Fluxus; Lauren Dubowski 

• CCAM Lobby: Disclosure; larí garcía 

• CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110): If a digital display...; Timo Kahlen 

• CCAM Lobby: Fluxkit for Pedagogical Entanglements (FKPE); Sewon Roy Kim, Ta'riq Abdul-Rahman, Devi'on Ellis, Myo Khawng, Kendall Moorman, Claire Replogle 

• CCAM Lobby: Take One; Abigail Murphy 

• Various Locations: A Drink with Giulia; Raquel Nache Lopez (RUFA) 

• CCAM Hallway Screens: LABORATORIUM; Benjamin Patterson 

• Various Locations: One Day You Will Do the Same for Your Daughter; Yarden Sason (RUFA) 

• CCAM Lobby: Don't Mind If I Don't; Christine Stoddard, Aaron Gold 

• CCAM Lobby: From Dusk to Dawn; Nechama Winston 

• CCAM Lobby: After Joe Jones; Ross Wightman (Yale School of Music – MusMA, 2020) 

Admission

All events are free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, and room capacity limits will apply.