Let's Make an Event Score
Instructions for actions to be performed (or not). Inspired by Yoko Ono.
In her book Grapefruit, Yoko Ono shares poem-like directions. Direction-like poems. Absurd recipes for absurdity. They are called event scores, and they are instructions that the reader may or may not choose to follow. Event scores are considered part of the Fluxus art movement, which occurred in the 60’s and 70’s and consisted of artists who valued process over product and blurred the lines between art and life. Fluxus is raw, true, participatory, accessible, and playful. Here’s the Fluxus manifesto by George Maciunas:
Experimental performance art was a large part of this movement. Grapefruit’s Wikipedia page says that event scores are “essentially a performance art script that is usually only a few lines long and consists of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue.”
