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.
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