Moves 2: A Collaborative Project with Rochelle Goldberg

 

 

Procedure and Hypothesis

These objects contain the possibiltity of all situations.

Elected for their simple form and anonymity, they make up the substance of the activity.

The objects then combine in determinate and random ways to represent how the game is played.

Observation of Acts

On second thought games get boring.

Aimless maneuvering through round after round makes it clear that the game is futile— yet the pressure is still on for something to happen. So let’s take what we need, use what we like, and forget about the rest. 

Its OK to go nowhere. 

Documented Analysis

Through image and documentation we can understand our moves and can begin to liberate all action from any need to explain it to ourselves. Its just activity. The book becomes a picture of the facts, the way the game was and the way the game went. Finally the book is more than the proliferation of action, it is the redemption from endless play and uselessness. The objects exist and they don’t exist, we use them and then we don’t. When the game is secured as an abstract image it offers everything and nothing.

 

Moves 1: A Collaborative Project with Rochelle Goldberg

 

Procedure and Hypothesis

A game is established. Conditions are created. Rules build intuitively and cumulatively.

Strategic collisions of objects and ideas will re-orient artistic sensibilities.

Observation of Acts

Each act taken, when playing the game, is a simultaneous acceptance, denial, rejection and retrieval of regulation.

Order itself, during the creative pursuit, becomes the game played.

Rules are the rules made to doubt the game, to push it forward, both challenging and crippling it.

Order is only accepted when it can be teased, manipulated, ignored, annihilated, replaced, and when renewed, restored.

During this process the artists negotiate their limits of control over image, idea, and thought.

Ownership is sacrificed for thegame to advance. The game goes nowhere.

Documented Analysis 

The book, is both the resurrection and completion of the game.

In this final stage the artists are no longer concerned with each careful act of rebellion made while playing the game.

The recorded action is unleashed from the structure of the event when enabled to proliferate as image on a page.

Divergent artistic-sensibilities now suspended by the book are made fluid–documentation of each move flows from one to the next—the game is over.