# RADICAL SOFTWARE
# CRITICAL ARTWARE

# DATE: 2006.09.08

RUN: Have Script Will Destroy - Cornelia Sollfrank (2000)

RUN: Baldessari Sings LeWitt - John Baldessari (1972)

RUN: Disappearing Music for Face - Mieko Shiomi (1964)

"Change gradually from a smile to no smile."

RUN: Disappearing Music for Face (Fluxfilm version) - Mieko Shiomi (1966)

RUN: Quid Pro Quo - Process Sculpture - Paul Kos (1970)

QUID PRO QUO
PROCESS SCULPTURE
Remove the "object" in art, or so de-objectify it, that the processing of money between patron and artist becomes the art. Process becomes art. Patron becomes artist. Artist becomes patron. Banks become museums.

1. Cut out above check.
2. Fill In your appropriate banking Information.
3. Inscribe any amount of money you desire, which may be charged to your account.
4. Endorse the check.
5. Your cancelled check will be your art. Not valid unless cancelled.
6. I will in turn send you a check for the exact amount you send me.
7. Mail to: "NON-OBJECT" Paul Kos
c/o Richmond Art Center
Richmond, California. 94801*
8. Your check will be exhibited in Richmond's Sculpture Annual, and deposited In my account at show's close, at which time you will receive your "cancelled art", and a check from me for the same amount.

RUN: Routine - Allan Kaprow (1973)

ROUTINE was the first of three related Activities with the same title. Each of them alludes to the deadpan stylizations of vaudeville routines, and to routinized behavior in everyday life.

The idea was prepared in November. 1973 and was realized the following December 1st. 2nd and 3rd, under the sponsorship of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts in Oregon. About twenty couples (mostly of opposite sexes) took part. A briefing to begin and a review after-wards brought the participants together, while between these sessions we carried out the program printed here in places of our own choice.

Although the basic operating unit of the Activity was a pair. it turned out that most of the transactions involved self-reflection. This was nothing new, to be sure. As we later "reflected", people generally devote themselves to mirroring who they are in others. But there was, or seemed to be, the promise of some kind of relationship contained in the images and formality of the program. The use of the telephone underlined that possibility.
A few couples carried out their routine in crowded public places to learn that hardly anyone else paid attention; others sought isolated car lots and backyards and had ample opportunity to pay attention solely to their own appearance or feelings. Annoyances and amusements resulted. Partnerships do not always serve the members equally. Yet several couples actually thought they got to know each other better. A few rediscovered an ancient way to flirt. Still others concluded they liked their eyes better than their mouths. The prevailing mood, I recall, was ironically surreal.

The photos here do not document ROUTINE. They fictionalize it. They were made and assembled to illustrate a framework of moves upon which an action or set of actions could be based. They function somewhere between the artifice of a Hollywood movie and an instruction manual. The pictures explain the words as the words explain the pictures. Thus the conversion of an event into an exhibit or magazine article becomes a species of mythology.

ALLAN KAPROW

1.
standing somewhere
facing a friend holding a large mirror
trying to catch one's reflection
signalling to tilt the mirror variously
until the reflection is caught
both moving apart a few steps
repeating process
moving apart again and again
repeating process
until it's no longer possible
to see oneself


2.
phoning a friend
saying something
asking that it be repeated
hearing the reply
holding the phone at arm's length
saying something else
asking that it be repeated
listening for the reply
stiepping away from the phone a bit
saying something else a bit louder
asking that it be repeated
listening for the reply
moving off farther and farther
each time saying something more loudly
asking that it be repeated
listening for the reply
asking again that it be repeated if one can't hear)
until it's impossible to hear



3.
planning to meet a friend
both approaching from a distance
turning around, walking backwards
toward each other, looking info a pocket mirror
until the reflection of both faces are very clear
making an eye movement making a mouth movement
the other copying it the other copying it
copying again and again copying again and again
until tired until tired
moving apart (still looking into mirrors)
repeatinq process
moving apart again and again
copying until face movements are no longer clear


4.
phoning a friend
saying something
repeating it once or twice
saying "OK, now lets say it together"
saying it, together, again and again
until no longer possible
being phoned by a friend
hearing something being said once or twice
being asked to repeat it together
saying it, together, again and again
until repeating is no longer possible



5.
looking at one's eye and mouth
in a pocket mirror
describing tham to a friend
on the phone
friend doing same
each istaring at his/her reflected eyea without blinking
staring at his/her opened mouth without closing it
saying nothing
hanging up when the eyes must blink
when the mouth must shut
*Nota: friends may, but need not be, the same throughout the five sections.

RUN: Dollar_hack - smartist (2001)
http://dollarhack.com

RUN: self-execute - Matej Smetana (30.11.2004)

RUN: .walk - socialfiction.org (2003)

DEV: Hello World

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