Monday, March 12, 2012

Fluxus Project

I was disappointed to see none of the cards I wrote performed. Two of them I made intentionally vague: "show yourself the way others see you" and "show a smaller, meaker force overcoming a larger, small force." I wrote these with absolutely no idea how in the hell they could be physically conveyed, and wanted to watch other people struggle to do so. I admit it was a bit sadistic of me, writing such purposefully impenetrable cards. Maybe that's why they weren't picked. I shouldn't have been that vague. My other card said "play your iPod on shuffle and simultaneously sing the first song that comes to your head." Part of this was just curiosity of what kind of music was on people's iPods and minds, but also, in retrospect, this was inspired by John Cage's radio pieces. The idea of pre-existing music clashing in potentially dissonant ways has intrigued both John and myself.

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