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Exercises
Notebook ExerciseTight Doorways Into Big Rooms
The Circle Game
Copyright It
Participatory Reading Event
Collage Scavenger Hunt
The Sentence
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Mental Exercise / Mental Pause / Mental Force
What is School For?
To Get Away from the Romantic Idea of the Individual
Time Totem
25 Ways to Make Love to the Earth
On Half-Blind Drawing
The Reception Game
Remote Choreography
Lines Into and Through Head-Space
News Papers
On Making Things From Scratch
The Tour Mindset Exercise
Art Proposal Thought Exercise
Senses and the Soundscape
Parliament Debate
Exercise for Urban Areas
Art in a Time Like This
Book Drop
Banner Drop
Tilting Time – An Exercise for the Mind
The YES! Principle
Make a Space
Hey Student & Hey Teacher
The Human Camera
River Crossing Puzzle
Instructions for an Unexpected Absence
Singing Rocks
Tuned in: Listening and Thinking-Out-Loud Together
Play by the Rules
Starting Out
All Ears Workshop
49 Ways to Change Your Home
Drawing Exercise
Hallucinations Without Drugs
Always Try and Read Something Beautiful on Waking, First Thing
An Exercise in Automatic Writing
Rumpelstiltskin-ing
Image to Body
Listen ’n Speak
The Excluded
Unspoken Projection Between Strangers
Diary Exercise
Mycological Provisions
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The Fall of the Studio (And Others)
Tailoring a Conceptual Experience
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.
