SENDER // RECEIVER // MESSAGE “Fluxus is to point at a score and follow- in one way or another” (Bech, 2009 p.12) The scores and instructions that emerged from the Fluxus movement have the capability of being complete conceptual artworks. Performance of the instructions can be a necessary part of the work but it is not always the main focus. As described in ‘Fluxus Scores and Instructions’, the Fluxus score can be considered as both a fragment and a microcosm of the Fluxus field of possibilities. For every score there are other scenes created by artists, and an infinite number of performances and interpretations of the score by each new reader. The capabilities of these instructions and their many interpretations span the themes that I am in the process of exploring. My investigation into the perception and understanding of written text has the potential to extend to many forms of inscribed language, including these types of instructions. How a reader interprets what’s in front of them is different for every individual. The very nature of instructions gives an ‘end product’, and to see these products alongside one another would give an idea of how each individual perceives the instructions, much like the instruction works of Sol Lewitt. The action of giving a prompt, verbally or written is performative. Equally the results of those instructions are also performative. What identifies each experience with the work as different is the choices the reader makes when they encounter those instructions.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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