Actions are according to intentions (corrections)

...Do this three times - items

Bring it together - tougher

I tried - tired

To want understanding - understating

But unfunded - unfounded

No-one knows how to value - clue

Even familiar things look beautifully weird - wired

A longer term which - chew

Co-founded the whole - while

In defense of cursive writing - wiring

As part of The Enemies Project's  North By North West poetry tour, a pair of HMRCollective performed a new work entitled Actions are according to intentions (corrections), a section of verse above.

The text was a combination of three separate writing constraints. 

Day 23

 

Day 22

 

  

Day 21

 

mistakes are all part of the inherent system

Day 20

       

Day 19

 

Day 18

Day 17

Day 16

Day 15

40 pages ready for the book

Day 14

Day 13

Copy Read

Day 12

Day 11

Day 10

Back to work....
changing the date stamp proved more fiddly than expected!

MAKE SHIFT....

Day 9

We will be back at work in 26 days

What is to be done - in tray



Day 8

Think - Paste

 

Day 7

Day 6

Make Zoom

Find Make

Make Delete

Day 5 - artists at work together

Our first day working in the same space.

This gave us chance to discuss and wonder about our different approaches to the rules and system we had set up. It is useful to note how much variation can be achieved within a system.

This seems to follow de Certeau's thought's on the agency of people in their everyday activities from The Practice of Everyday Life. They are able to inhabit a variety of tasks and make them their own, undetected by the watchful eye of the ruling system.

As a research task this has been helpful to my own consideration about the use of algorithmic systems within my art practice. Collaboration allows you an insight into the other ways of performing a task that you might otherwise consider tight and specific. In order to create a system which will bring consistent results, while using more than one operator, it becomes apparent how detailed the instruction will need to be.

R