The Rules

Hello all! 

Here are some of the rules that we drafted up. Maybe we should look back and think about why we have picked them AND how they have changed / shifted. I have starred the ones i think we need, or already have, rethought.  

> Until the dice changes you must continue your designated action ***

 > Performers have no agency.

 > Once you are out you are out.

 > Nothing exists outside of the grid.

 > The grid is sealed off ***

 > The changes should be obvious, the reasons not.

 > Each action is definite.

 > Each post is independent.

 > We are there to undertake tasks.

 > The rollers cannot see the performers ***

 > Each rolling post must be manned at all times.

Love,

Matt xxx

Changes since December

I think it might be helpful to list the changes we've made since our work in progress. Just want to remind ourselves that we have come a long way, even if our explorations in some areas seem to have gone full circle to arrive back at the same place. The following directions we have taken show a response to the vast majority of feedback from both the q&a and our recent practical experiments.

1. We have developed more focussed posts. New preference for the task based, and those that evolve either us, or the space, to emphasise duration through accumulation. We have introduced alcohol as one of these tasks, which gradually debilitates the performer.
2. The emphasis in our approach to the execution of tasks has shifted from an uneven blend of theatricality and performativity to one that favours performativity. We are leaving behind the ego of the performer as we enter the system, and with it the drive to be entertaining.
3. The audience have been brought into the performance, have been given a crucial role that places them in a relationship with us as group on group, and also in a closer, one on one relationship that forms through the negotiation between each roller and player. Their responsibility transforms the whole nature of the piece, and the way it feels to participate as an audience member.
4. The time has been extended to give things a chance to evolve/make things tougher for the performer/allow the audience more freedom to come and go at will/underline the impossibility of repetition.
5. The rules have been complicated so that they are much less transparent to the audience, so that changes occur to keep things fresh and interesting, to maintain a certain mystery and curiosity about what is causing changes.
6. The performance has been moved to a site to give better viewing angles for the audience/resonate with the real life nature of the tasks we are doing/remove the performance further from the theatrical/ make use of an appropriately mathmatical, statistical space with relevant signs visible and a grid floor.


Can we think of any more? Anyone disagree, want to add anything?

Rules of the Piece

Rules
- Until the dice changes you must continue your designated action.
- Performers have no agency
- Once you’re out you’re out.
- Nothing exists outside the grid
- The grid is sealed off
- The changes should be obvious. The reasons not.
- Each action is definite
- Each post is independent
- We are there to undertake tasks
- The rollers cannot see the performers
- The audience must roll once before they enter the space, but they are then free to go between spaces as they please.
- Each rolling post must be manned at all times.