Slideshow

I'll throw together the slide show before class.

heres some more images

if anyone would be interested in making the slide show i would greatly appreciate it. i have alot of homework tonight, and don't have the internet at home, so if anyone trys to contact me late tonight i will most likely not get the message till the beginning of class tomorrow.

i was thinking we should simplify the event score to maybe only two actions. more than two will be hard for people to remember as the event takes place.

heres some more pictures!

thoughts: how to a simpul.

In response to the discussions about our Event Score, I think we all agree that the scores created by Fluxus have been rather simple but evoke a kind of response from the audience that can be categorized as "discomfort." I don't think that we should score just for the purpose of a reaction or discomfort, although we may come to that point in the process.

What we've studied so far is the type of scores that were created by Fluxus: a simple action that can be performed in an infinite number of scenarios. For example, the Cut Piece by Yoko Ono says to do one thing, and the audience is given free control over the parameters of that experience.

The act itself is rather perfunctory in manner, amounting to little more than something we carry out in our daily lives. Pulling rope, for fishermen, becomes a dance move in Japanese traditional ceremonies about the sea. In the Buddhist sense of living, any mundane act can be an act of mindfulness. Local contemporary dancer Shinichi Iova-Koga* uses something similar in the training at his summer dance camp, Dance On Land:


Dance on Land 2009 from Shinichi Iova-Koga on Vimeo.

 The collection of their scores can then be understood as a performance after the fact. I'd like us to attempt something that is more along that line- the score to an action that can become mindfully done.

*_{Koga is part of a new generation of Butoh/contemporary performance artists. He is a student of Anna Halprin, who in the 1960s pioneered new practices in ballet, movement, and scoring it. Other performing artists of this new era include Twyla Tharp and Yen Lu Wong.}

Yellow #1: Grub and Rub

Event Score (example)


Yellow #1: Grub and Rub
Pound the desk if you dislike the food. Change seats if you don't know what it is. High-five the person next to you if you like the food. Make contact with another person if you really like it.

Any comments are helpful. I believe "make contact" is vague enough to be freely interpreted. The "rub" part of the title could possibly be induced.

Images:

narrowing it down

We talked about the Event Score today but didn't get anything written down.
Heres a little bit of what we talked about-

Projecting images. (Celebrities?- can you relate to them?)
Allow image to sit on screen long enough to allow a reaction in the viewer.
Viewer makes decision. (do they agree or disagree)
If they do/do not agree(not sure which), then they must get out of their seat and leave the room.
They can only leave the room if they make "contact" with another leaving the room, and leave together. "Contact" can be interpreted differently.
Score runs until slide show is over.

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Input is needed! We need this done, and ready by Thursday!