Instruction Pieces


How To Put On Some Music (diptych)*   How To Put On Some Music (diptych)*   Hunt The Gowk**
How To Put On Some Music
(diptych)*		   How To Put On Some Music
(diptych)*		   Hunt The Gowk**
         
Hunt The Gowk (detail)**   Instruction Piece No.4**   Instructions on how to conduct a dialogue between an artist and an art historian***
Hunt The Gowk (detail)**   Instruction Piece No.4**   Instructions on how to conduct
a dialogue between an artist
and an art historian***
         
Instructions on how to conduct a dialogue between an artist and an art historian***   Instructions on how to conduct a dialogue between an artist and an art historian***    
Instructions on how to conduct
a dialogue between an artist
and an art historian*** 		  Instructions on how to conduct
a dialogue between an artist
and an art historian*** 		   
         

I made the first instruction pieces during my first year on the MFA course at Edinburgh College of Art. They have evolved a bit since then, but most display a mundane literalism inspired by Georges Perec’s proposed endotics (See Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin Modern Classics) – an excellent read). There’s also a good deal of Fluxus period Yoko Ono in there as well.

*SSA Professional Members Exhibition, Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow.

**Maquette, Edinburgh, 2009

***#, ECA, Edinburgh, 2010