world of work

Chris Goode and Jonny Liron recently performed a piece at the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton, called World of Work. they invited people of all kinds of artistry to submit a card for the performance, from which they would do that thing they do, and received 62 of them. here are the specifics of their request:

There are no formal restrictions on what a card might show, except that we do not want to deviate from the 6″x4″ dimensions and we would like the designed element on each card to be on one face only, with the reverse left blank. Cards might show, for example: text to be read, images to be interpreted or recreated, instructions to be followed, notation to be sung / played / performed, found materials to be responded to, any combination of these, or anything else you can think of along these sorts of lines. Any kind of text / graphic / score / stimulus, however proscriptive or indeterminate, is welcome. As well as textual instructions to be printed on a card and followed in performance, you could also send instructions for designing a card or otherwise securing a design — not a card but a meta-card, in other words: this might be useful if, for example, you wanted somehow to leave the precise content of your card partly to chance or a randomized procedure, or if you wanted it to be somehow responsive to the day or place or moment of performance.

here's the card i mailed them:


to read a much more eloquent text from Chris about this project, and see more of the cards, go here: Transductions and here: Thompson's Bank of Communicable Desire.