Performance scores (80 total, work in progress, 2026)
1. Everywhere you see a hole in a room, stick a flower into it. Try it in a bedroom. Try it in an art gallery. Try it in different rooms.
2. Take your hair down. Stand in front of a fan and let it blow your hair as you turn your head around in the air. Do this for an audience.
3. Put on all of your jewelry at one time. Dance so that an audience can hear all of it moving.
4. Wear windbreaker pants and a puffer coat and walk as slowly as possible in quiet public spaces like libraries or retail stores.
5. Cover your entire head with fabric in front of an audience. Try to walk for as long as possible without falling. If you fall, apologize to the audience.
6. Shake everyone’s hand in an audience. Make eye contact with them and say, “I’m free.”
7. Sit on one side of a table wearing sunglasses. Have another pair of sunglasses on the other side of the table. Initiate a staring contest with the sunglasses on. Don’t bring up the sunglasses on the other side of the table.
8. Ask the audience at a secular event to turn to their neighbor and shake their hand while saying, “Peace be with you.”
9. In a group of five or more spread out. Each person mimics a bird call-with each choosing a different species of bird-at different times, performing a call and response while not singing over one another.
10. Sing a folk song from memory by reciting each of the words starting in reverse order. (I would choose a short song like “Home on the Range.”)
11. In a group of five or more everyone makes a hat out of a leaf. Each person walks slowly while having in and out of the crowd, trying to keep the leaf balanced on the head.
12. Add rosemary. Add rosemary to anything you are making whether it’s edible or not.
13. Sing a folk song as loud as you can.
14. Baptism piece: walk to the river with five or more people. One person submerges themselves as the group watches.
15. In a group of ten or more blow dandelion fluff in the direction of the sky.Lie on your back and lift your legs while in a crunch position. Lift a nearby chair with your legs and throw this chair with your legs.
16. Extend your arm with a mic cable dangling from it. Make little circles with your arm while swinging the mic cable in a circular motion to wrap it around your arm. Try it with the mic on and off.
17. Make a bucket out of upcycled materials and move dirt or sand with it.
18. Paint a large seed paper of walnut tree seeds and recycled pulp with walnut ink live and then plant the paper.
19. Try to make an automatic drawing live in different mental states like dizziness, tiredness, joy, et al. Be safe.
20. Ask your audience to focus collectively on the materialization of a sphere and try to build it together with telekinesis.
21. Ask the audience to listen in silence to the room. Make an ambient sound (a refrigerator hum, a fan, a pet’s cry, eg.) disappear.
22. Chant, “Sunday” four times in a round with the second round always ending on the second syllable. Next, do this with Monday. Proceed in the same way with all of the days of the week.
23. Hold a beaded necklace with some slack between your two hands. Move your hands closer and further apart. Have a singer follow the U-shape of the necklace as a continuous tone that change pitch lower and higher with each iteration of the movement of the necklace.
24. Make seven breads and add food coloring to the breads in accordance with the spectrum of the rainbow.
25. Hollow out loaves of bread and shellac them. Once they’re dry put lightbulbs in them to light a room.
26. Sign all of your work. Get a laser cut metal piece of your signature made. Bake bread and sign your work live by toasting the bread. Try putting powdered sugar over the metal signature on a cake.
27. Make a small hut out of bread and nibble your way out of the back of the hut.
28. Telephone game: have a group of ten or more people spaced at 100 foot intervals. The first person hollers an improvised change in pitch for eight counts. The second person copies that pitch. It goes on down the line.
29. Monochrome: paint everything in a room one color. Try different colors for different rooms.
30. Make a list of all of your creative ideas and give them away for people to do themselves free of charge.
31. Ask a curator to present one of these scores so that you don’t have to announce the instructions or lead them.
32. Make a drawing on a chalkboard for an audience and erase it. Do this many times.
33. Telephone game with drawing: draw a figure. Have another person copy that figure. Have the next person copy the previous person’s figure. Do this ten times or indefinitely.
34. Have the audience “Kaw!” like crows. Don’t “kaw” on the off beat with your neighbor. Try not to “kaw” at the same time as your neighbor. If you do “kaw” at the same time as your neighbor try to be louder than your neighbor.
35. Draw a line on the ground. In groups of two stand on either side of the line facing one another. Have one partner grab the hands of another partner facing forward. Lean back and try not to cross the line.
36. Take a bath.
37. Sound an alarm at random intervals.
38. Turn your outfit inside out.
39. Drop all of the change out of your pockets onto the ground.
40. Play a drum without using drumsticks or hands. Bang it on a table or a wall, et al instead.
41. Sleep in different public places in eveningwear.
42. Sleep in different public places in overalls.
43. Do a plank on two blocks of ice until they melt.
44. Change the lighting temperature in a room for an event. Try it in an art gallery. Try it in a living room.
45. Have a group of five or more spin in circles holding mirrors while wearing high heels.
46. Lead a parade in which everyone in the parade is wearing clogging tap shoes.
47. Kick a can and walk at the same time for as many miles as you can.
48. Paint a car with a monochrome of house paint including the windows.
49. Paint a car with a monochrome of greenscreen paint in a greenscreen video studio and key it out over a video of a landscape. Try it over a video of a protest.
50. Paint a person with a monochrome of greenscreen paint in a greenscreen video studio and key it out over a video of a landscape. Try it over a video of a protest.
51. Eat something crunchy on a radio broadcast.
52. Broadcast the the sound of the wind on the radio.
53. Translate Artaud’s radio play in a new language and perform it on the radio.
54. Walk on a single board while carrying another board. When you get to the end of the board lay the board you are carrying down to walk on. Keep walking and alternating boards so that your feet never touch the ground.
55. Change your voicemail greeting to, “I love you.”
56. Try to fit in a box and roll inside of the box to move along.
57. Learn how to speak in reverse phonetically as it sounds in reversed audio.
58. Try dancing for your pet. Try it live!
59. Play a song under a blanket in the center of the room so that people can see your movements under the blanket.
60. Take off your clothes and put them back on inside out and continue this action over and over again, reversing the clothes every time.
61. Give away pennies.
62. Hum along to the hum of the sound of an appliance in the room.
63. Hum along to the hum of electric lights outside at night.
64. Hold a mirror up to a lit candle and move its light in an otherwise dark room.
65. Hold a mirror up to the sun and move the reflection of the sun outside.
66. Walk very quickly in one direction and then another while becoming slower and slower at walking every time you change direction.
67. Give an audience of 25 or more people a set of two sticks per person. Have them try to click two of the sticks together in unison without being conducted by a leader so that they have to cooperate to figure out how to do this.
68. Have the audience pick a leader. Have the leader pick a number at random. Spin for that number of times in high heels trying not to fall.
69. Host a “cooking show” where the audience yells out ingredients that are on the stage and add them as they are suggested in the amounts the audience suggests. Serve them the dish at the end.
70. Write lyrics on paper live to music and sing them.
71. Spin in a spinning chair in front of a piano and only play the piano when you spin around to it.
72. Carefully lift and move a piano around the room.
73. Bring a bag of your groceries to the venue. Take each item out one by one exclaiming the name of each item as it comes out of the bag.
74. Plant a tree.
75. Plants trees.
76. Bring a tree you planted into the gallery.
77. Lay a group of sticks on the floor of the gallery and keep rearranging them.
78. Find a load bearing support in a gallery or museum and chip away at it with a file.
79. Prepare a lecture on some interesting fact and speak it over live acoustic guitar music so that the music is no longer audible.
80. Play two recorders at the same time by putting both in your mouth.