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Exercises
Make a SpaceParliament Debate
The Fall of the Studio (And Others)
Art in a Time Like This
Always Try and Read Something Beautiful on Waking, First Thing
Senses and the Soundscape
Tailoring a Conceptual Experience
All Ears Workshop
Notebook Exercise
What is School For?
The Human Camera
Drawing Exercise
Rumpelstiltskin-ing
Hallucinations Without Drugs
Art Proposal Thought Exercise
Banner Drop
Remote Choreography
Hey Student & Hey Teacher
L
Image to Body
Listen ’n Speak
Tuned in: Listening and Thinking-Out-Loud Together
Copyright It
49 Ways to Change Your Home
Play by the Rules
Tight Doorways Into Big Rooms
Book Drop
An Exercise in Automatic Writing
The Tour Mindset Exercise
The YES! Principle
Mycological Provisions
The Sentence
Starting Out
Tilting Time – An Exercise for the Mind
Lines Into and Through Head-Space
The Circle Game
River Crossing Puzzle
Mental Exercise / Mental Pause / Mental Force
Diary Exercise
Participatory Reading Event
On Making Things From Scratch
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Exercise for Urban Areas
Collage Scavenger Hunt
Time Totem
News Papers
Singing Rocks
To Get Away from the Romantic Idea of the Individual
The Reception Game
On Half-Blind Drawing
25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth
The Excluded
Unspoken Projection Between Strangers
Instructions for an Unexpected Absence
Mycological Provisions
This exercise explores the use of mycology and chance operation to develop a dance score and archive of site-specific field recordings inspired by the work of artist/composer John Cage.
Keep a rain diary, noting when it rains and the level of precipitation. Record the sounds of the rain to initiate a sound archive. On a day after it rains, begin to walk your neighborhood, or local park. Gaze, careen and look closely at the landscape for evidence of decay and mushroom growth. Look particularly for mulch piles, shady undergrowth, fallen logs, or wild meadows. Begin to consider the rhythms of chance in the dates collected, amount of precipitation recorded and length of each storm. (Consult the I-Ching)
Use your rain diary to generate a sequence of numbers. Use this sequence as a reference for developing a dance score. For instance you might walk 3 paces forward, 2 back, and 4 to the side. Or spend 2 minutes walking toward the north, 7 minutes to the south etc. Think carefully about Cage’s idea of indeterminate composition, and chance operation. If a mushroom is discovered, begin the sequence again, or invent something new altogether. Keep a diary of any specimens identified and notate your score by marking your movement.
