Constraint #108
The Sound of Home
Record all the sounds your home makes in one day. Make a catalog.
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The OuViePo creative constraints
Constraint #100
The Walk Without Destination
Walk out your front door. No plan. Follow what catches your eye.
Constraint #091
Gestural Communication
Spend an hour communicating only through gestures. No words, no writing.
Constraint #089
The Kind Sign
Make a sign with a kind message. Hold it up in a public place. Observe.
Constraint #088
The Noisy Minute of Silence
One minute of silence. But listen to everything. Write it all down.
Constraint #087
The Musical Doorbell
Replace your doorbell with a tune you hum yourself.
Constraint #086
The Impromptu Picnic
Grab whatever you have. Go eat outside. Right now. No planning.
Constraint #083
The Slow Meal
A meal in slow motion. One hour minimum. Each bite counts.
Constraint #077
The Conversation Without Direct Answers
Have a conversation where every answer is a question. See how long it lasts.
Constraint #072
The Tuesday Lunch
Every Tuesday, eat the same meal. For a month. Exactly the same.
Constraint #069
The Impossible Ringtone
Replace your ringtone with a sound you recorded yourself. Keep it for a month.
Constraint #068
The Three-Hour Bench
A public bench. Three hours. No phone. Just be there.
Constraint #063
The Album in the Dark
An entire album. In the dark. Lying down. Doing nothing else.
Constraint #057
The Google Painting
Choose a website. Paint it by hand. Freeze the digital in matter.
Constraint #056
The Irrational Walk
Have yourself photographed in an impossible position. No digital manipulation.
Constraint #054
The Drawn Network
Draw the path of an email. Compare your drawing to the actual traceroute.
Constraint #052
Blind Drawing
Draw an object without looking at your paper. Eyes on the object, hand on the paper.
Constraint #050
The Social Sculpture
Organize an event without a program. Each participant is both artist and spectator.
Constraint #048
The jesusswimming
Create a website with a single concept. The URL is the title of the work.
Constraint #045
The Conscious Pixel
Create an image pixel by pixel in a spreadsheet. Each cell is a pixel.
Constraint #044
The Autopsied File
Open an old file or system file. Analyze its metadata like an archaeologist.
Constraint #041
The Polyrhythm of Objects
Create percussion by tapping different everyday objects with a specific rhythm.
Constraint #040
The Sound Pandora’s Box
Record all the sounds of your day. Create a sonic composition.
Constraint #038
The Digital Ready-Made
Find an image online. Re-request it from an AI. Compare.
Constraint #036
The Exhaustive List
List everything that makes you anxious. Everything. No filter.
Constraint #035
The Post-Trauma Journal
Write your journal 48 hours after a difficult event.
Constraint #034
The Daily Clip Constraint
Film 1 minute of video each day. Same setting, same time every day.
Constraint #033
The Tattooed Autobiography
Draw with marker on your skin a symbol for each significant event.
Constraint #026
The Inherited Playlist
Ask someone to create your soundtrack. That's your musical portrait.
Constraint #024
The Intentional Ephemeral
Write a beautiful page. Burn it. That's your creation.
Constraint #022
The Minimal Hack
Intervene in public space in the most minimal way possible.
Constraint #020
The Double Gaze
Create a two-layer image. Two gazes, two truths.
Constraint #015
Body Phase Shift
Slow down an everyday gesture by ten percent each hour.
Constraint #014
The Clapping
Two people, one struck rhythm. One shifts. Hold without getting lost.
Constraint #013
The One-Minute Choreographic Journal
One body sculpture per day. One minute. No more.
Constraint #012
The Daily Mask
Disfigure yourself with what's lying around. One mask per day, never the same.
Constraint #009
Sol LeWitt Instruction
Write a constraint. Send it to a stranger. Never see the result.
Constraint #008
Tehching Hsieh Marathon
Same time, same framing, same light. Thirty days. Zero tolerance.
Constraint #007
Fluxus Destruction
Slowly destroy an object you care about. Keep the remains.
Constraint #006
Existential Exquisite Corpse
Three people, three papers, one blind constraint. Execute the result.
Constraint #005
Domestic Abramović
Look a stranger in the eyes. In silence. As long as possible.
Constraint #003
Wurm × Flanagan Sculpture
Hold an uncomfortable object against your body. Exactly ten minutes.