The Commute Playlist, Constraint #74 Create a playlist that is exactly the length of your daily commute. Not one song more, not one less. Listen to it every day for a week without changing it. Reference artist(s): Brian Eno. The…
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Constraint of the Week: The Three-Hour Bench
The Three-Hour Bench, Constraint #68 Choose a public bench. Sit down. Stay for exactly three hours. Observe. Don’t read, don’t look at your phone. Just be there. Reference artist(s): Tehching Hsieh. The protocol Choose a bench in a busy place……
On Kawara, the Date as a Work of Art
On January 4, 1966, On Kawara paints a canvas. Grey-green background, white letters, rigorous typography: JAN. 4, 1966. Nothing else. No composition, no expressive gesture, no visible signature. Just the day’s date, hand-painted with almost mechanical precision. He stores the…
Roman Opalka, Counting Until Death
In 1965, Roman Opalka begins painting numbers. 1, then 2, then 3… on a black canvas, in white, by hand, with a fine brush. He calls it a “detail”. Each painting is a detail of a single, infinite project that…