These all feel only tangentially related to the prompt, but I also think they all sound like a lot of fun, so…
- Exquisite Choreo – You know the game where someone draws a picture, then someone else describes the picture, then a third person draws a picture based just on the description, then someone else describes that, and so on? It’s like that but with dance. I would do a few rounds: someone dances to a clip of music and I record them, then someone else watches that video and tries to write a description for the movement. I show that description to another dancer, et cetera. Alternatively, I just do a series of video with the instruction “Copy this Movement,” like telephone. Alternatively, I just do Exquisite Corpse but with dance, asking “What should come next?” with limited context.
- Maybe more of a typology, but… there is this awful door into my residence hall that abruptly stops after you pull it a few inches open. I have enjoyed watching people’s disappointed faces when trying to open this door, especially when I can tell this has happened to them before. I’d love to photograph/film a series of reactions to this. Maybe I could even rig something to do that automatically?
- Study for Fifteen Points but YOU are the points – I am currently obsessed with Study for Fifteen Points and I thought it could be fun to recreate it with people instead of robot arms. There are a few ways to do this: firstly, I could give each person a stick with a light at the end, teach them how they should move it, and have them “perform” this somewhere. The “person” they depict could be larger than life, outdoors in the evening somewhere on campus. Could be fun. Alternatively, I could make this something of a game for fewer people, where they are each controlling an interesting point or two and trying to make something that a computer will recognize as a walking. This would force people to consider how their joints move.