For the genre study, my initial thought was the Fluxus movement’s instruction theory, where the art piece itself is a simple instruction of different kinds. The action itself was often considered to be a Fluxus performance.

I love instructions. Since the beginning of the class, I wanted to explore the option of Fluxus instructions as something to pursue in this class.

For this assignment, I used the structure of “Verb + Noun + Time or Place” to give simple interactive instructions that can be done in a classroom or workstation at ITP, mixing people with nouns.

I wanted the actions to be doable at most times, some funny, some ironic, but also heartwarming ones as well. I believe there is some poeticness in this.

I initially imported a long list of verbs from the internet attempting to have it as random as possible. But it was not a lot of fun, and I did not get the result I want. Instead, I picked out a few words I want and edited them with words like “to, with, on” to make it easier for them to be paired up with the nouns.

As I mentioned I want all the actions to be very doable. I did intentionally leave the invisible verbs in, it added a romantic flair to the instruction.

For the location, I left a good amount of blanks in, I think a lot of the action did not need anything else. And I was happy with the result.

Even though the sentence generated was short, I think I achieved what I wanted to do. In the future, I will add more items to the list, as well as think about the presentation and placement of the instruction. I also would like to try more complex instructions with more steps.

While in class taking notes, I did a meme format as well. 

Enjoy.