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performing secret algorithm session

- secret-algorithmic based performance
- will be propagated through each of you (or not)

https://www.draw.io/?lightbox=1&highlight=0000ff&edit=_blank&layers=1&nav=1&title=secret-algorithm-performance#R3Vffb5swEP5reOwEmF95XLOu05Rqm%2FLQrS%2BTazzwZjAyJsD%2B%2BpnYBAxNw1JNjfYS%2BT6fz3fffT4RC6yz5pbDIr1jMaaWa8eNBd5ZrhtGgfztgFYBHrAVkHASK8gZgC35jTXYu1UkxqXhKBijghQmiFieYyQMDHLOatPtB6PmrQVM8AzYIkjn6D2JRarQyA0H%2FAMmSdrf7AQrtZPB3llXUqYwZvUIAjcWWHPGhFplzRrTjrueF3Xu%2FZHdQ2Ic52LJgXWbrarinm%2Fs8Gf7EJLv%2BCO6AirKDtJKF0zyohI6Y9H2NHBW5THuItkWuK5TIvC2gKjbrWXfJZaKjErLkct5ZjrZHeYCNyNIZ3qLWYYFb6WL3u1J06o52PXQA6fH0hH%2FgcagbntyiDwwIxeanL8gypsR9Ugh%2BvXImkvjCtivzZU%2F44pV4gJVBaLXZiqcMTXjCOfx226OSQtRWJYELaSlZBVH%2BPTbF5AnWJyWPo6NSTknecSi%2FwSJPcYxhYLszPn6FLP6hs%2BMyMqO9dB3Jr1RZetD43E4iROuTC14kziKllmcfZsPRZ%2Ff%2BejlnccNEV%2B7t%2FPG19a3F2vCW6gJ%2F6I04Uw0sTpTE8Ekzr%2FTxBeAkg0NIu7Vn%2B4csQkf0PWVe1oTqOK7%2FcDcC2DRaJj06Dxd%2BAt1Af6H0eCGZiDPX6YD2QzYjtyKzqE8nm80yde2n03LWU3SCp%2F3d23T3%2FVOxJ%2FIv7eP%2BU%2FSd8x05ELxsfCJSHP4Flbuwx8KcPMH


Alcho 1:

Variables:
- meta-instructions printed
- instructions on a piece a paper (never to be talked about)
- a virgin piece of paper
- a pen
- your stone(s)

Meta-instructions

        I read the Meta-instructions (on this paper).

I (a) read the instructions to perform. 

        I keep these instructions as a secret till Saturday – I don't discuss the instructions in any way, nor my intentions during the execution

I find someone (b).

We go to a quiet place.

I ask (b) to watch me attentively.

I perform these instructions.

I ask (b) to write down what she/he saw as a new set of instructions.

I ask (b) to pass the new set of instructions + this meta-instructions to another person (a’).


    1. If I can not  it is difficult to find a new person immediately, I try again. If after three trials I still can not find  it is still difficult to find a person, I f ind Annie and/or Marika and execute the instruction set.


Alcho 2:
    
Verso 1 on recto:                                         
Watch my performance
Write it down as an instruction set
Find someone else :
        Give him/her your instruction set 
        + this paper and ask him/her to read the verso
        
Verso 2 on verso :                                       
Read my instruction set, and keep it secret
Find someone alone :
        Give him/her this paper and ask him/her to read the verso
        Perform my instruction set

        
Initial instructionset images http://etherbox.lan/research/performing_algorithm/ (one is missing)

        
We spend at least three hours optimising our initial idea. In this process we realized we had lost things: - care for the where - the intention that the alcho would be ameliorated - whether the alcho was meant to be a performance or a ritual
So we had to rewrite.
(The amazing/chocking part was that we were very happy with the fact that we succeeded in making something that could work and that quit naturally we had left out the most essential elements. - Lesson: before implementing anything always check what is left out)



process

- writing phase : 
    objectiv: propagate the performance from one to the next one
    -> instructions and meta-instructions
how to simplify 

- propagation phase
- debugguging phase
- rewriting phase :
in the meta instruction, we need to specify that the description of the performance that is done is a "rewriting" : 
    reintroducing inten t ion 
to avoid the literal description
to include interpretation in the writing phase
= is a way to "ameliorate" the performance, by introducing something from each one

We introduced the intentionality in the process. - essential, want, experience
We introduced care for conditions - quiet place
We call it performance, 
Maybe an evolving ritual through performance - this depends mostly on the initial instruction set which in this case were all about the relation between the person and his/her stone

Next step would be repropagate the original instruction set with this new meta-instructions

Overall remark : The project suffers from its secrecy ? No, more from the fact the participants were not really concerned (had other things to do) - it is more something for a workshop on its own.

- for everyone who did the performance :
    who did a performance
    ok to redo it ?
     find a place, 
     can you put yourself in the start situation
     execute the instruction when the gong is there 
     start = An's gong
     
- hang the paper with the instruction on the wall
- show the meta-instructions alcho 1&2 and talk about our process
show alcho 3

- d iscover the "roads" followed

- talk about : why where stuck? would alcho 3 be more interesting?
    
    
    fiche tk :
         scotch pour accrocher les papiers)



Alcho 3

Recto:     
                                        
Watch my performance attentively
Write it down as an instruction set
Find someone else 
Give him/her your instruction set + this paper and ask him/her to read the verso


Verso :
    
Read my instruction set, and keep it secret
Find someone alone :
        Give him/her this paper and ask him/her to read the verso
Perform my instruction set