Preliminary Ideas (by Dean Walsh)

Handing a laptop to someone and saying:

“Hi there”
“Would it be possible to communicate with you via this laptop for a few minutes?”
Your answer:

“With each of the following questions you have a time limit of 60 seconds to answer. You will hear an alarm sound that means your deadline has been reached & you must immediately stop typing & or your entry will not be valid.”

(we could have our own little alarms each perhaps??)

Question 1:

1.     Can you define for me what you think the role of a producer might be?

2.     And can you define what the job of a programmer might be?

3.     What do you think the term ‘to curate’ means?

4.     What does the act of choreography entail?

5.     What is the job of an administrator?

Then based on one of their answers we might ask our individual admin collaborator to:
Can you administer some directions for me to perform please?

OR

Can you ask me to produce a performative outcome for you please?
Then we ask them to time us for 2 mins saying “stop” when times up. We go through each of us this way?
Then we continue on to something else or perhaps ask particular people in the audience similar questions so everyone is then introduced to what’s going on and then we perform this as a group? Then move on??
I also thought the idea that we could all be writing on the butchers paper 6 of the questions / statements we’ve all come up with over the time as they enter.
Perhaps we passively choreograph them by having arrows pointing to the seating bank on butchers paper.
A note on seats “yes here” “no, not here” ??

At the very end of the presentation, as discussed, we perhaps could have worked out a way to get them all over to one side of the seating whilst we are on the other and we pause for a good moment then one of us says something like…
“You might ask what we’re waiting for…”
Another says,
“Well, we’re waiting for you to program us.”

End.

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