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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Nan Goldin, Photographing to Remember
In 1979, Nan Goldin began showing a series of slides in public. Photos of her friends, her lovers, herself. Bodies in unmade beds, made-up faces in smoky bars, embraces in tiny kitchens, gazes lost in bathroom mirrors. The series is…
Constraint of the Week: Tuesday Lunch
Tuesday Lunch, Constraint #72 Every Tuesday for a month, have lunch with someone you barely know or don’t know at all. A colleague you’ve crossed paths with, a neighbour, someone you met last week. Reference artist(s): Allan Kaprow. The protocol…
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…
Some Artists Who Inspired OuViePo’s Constraints
OuViePo’s constraints are not invented ex nihilo. Each one is linked to an actual artistic practice, a documented gesture, a work that showed it was possible. Here are some of the artists who made all of this imaginable. It all…