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performance as spiritual practice meditation

experimental meditation database
(2008)
page last updated Tue, 10 Feb 2009,  3:27pm PST

 

 

Contributor:   adam overton

 

 

Description
... a performance-a-day keeps the doctor away ...

 

 

Keywords:   meditation, ritual, daily
Duration:   everyday, whenever minutes

 

 

Materials / Instrumentation / Performers
any score, experimental music, experimental performance

 

 

Score / Notes

everyday
briefly
perform some experimental music or performance art
perhaps as part of your spiritual practice

 

perhaps
   after you wake up, or
   before you go to sleep, or
   before you go to work, or
   before or after you eat, or
    etc...

 

note that today's performance ritual need not be the same
as yesterday's performance ritual

 

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Record of daily performance rituals (Adam Overton):

 

 

11/15/08 - top of a daylong event
posted by ao, 10/15/08  Time After Time After . . .  (adam overton)
performed with 30+ participants at LACMA in Los Angeles, from 12-1pm, as part of A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA.

 

more pics & video maybe coming soon

 

here's the first video i've seen - more will be added as they become available:

seen (from left to right): Samantha Gregg, Lauren Martinez, ??, Mark So

 

participants included:
Steven Ziadie, Adriana Yugovich, Mike Winter, Tyler Waxman, Tashi Wada, Hana van der Kolk, Steven Tishkoff, Theresa Sotto, Mark So, Jess Ruvalcaba, Jessie Rothwell, Adam Overton, Andrea Neumann, Liam Mooney, Lauren Martinez, Matt Lucero, Phyllis Ling, Catherine Lamb, Christian Kesten, David Kendall, Robby Herbst, Asher Hartman, Samantha Gregg, Simone Gad, Willia Drew, Camille Dieterle, Nathalie Dierickx, Megan May Daalder, Claire Cronin, Eric km Clark, Richard Caceres, Allison Danielle Behrstock, and possibly others(?)

 

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11/14/08, after burrito, before bed
posted by ao, 11/15/08  negative_volumes_of_the_lives_of_strangers_this_side_of_emptiness  (Mark So)
@ the wulf.
performed streetside
cat lamb, adam overton - sustaining activities

 

. . .

 

11/13/08, before dinner, a rehearsal & full run-through of Christian Kesten's THE ROOM, mit cat, mark, brooke, and laura.

 

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11/4/08, before the election was called, Marssares Selector's instruction #2, and Liz Glynn's EXIT STRATEGIES, as part of Exchange Rate: 2008
(photos coming soon)

 

posted by ao, 11/04/08  riddles of climate  (Mark So)
11/4/08, beginning 1am, before bed, living room with door open (incomplete - fell asleep btwn 3rd & 4th tones; awoke to the sound of rain)

 

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11/2/08, before eating, performance/rehearsal of Gawdafful Theatre, on the Occidental Campus, with Claire, Seema, Rochelle, Mariel, and Jess, and with Asher directing

 

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posted by ao, 11/01/08  like a beach ball meditation  (experimental meditation database)
11/1/08, on the drive to and from work, in and out of driving & mental distraction

 

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posted by ao, 11/01/08  Recipe For A Google Party  (adam overton)
10/31/08, halloween evening, Echo Park, dressed again as "Adam Overton," the English kid Old Oak FS soccer player (3rd or 4th year in a row...). it was a lazy night of chit-chat and ouija board experiments, and i admittedly didn't "try" very hard at my alter-ego's role this year...

 

posted by ao, 10/31/08  rub corduroy meditation  (experimental meditation database)
10/31/08, early morning/late nite, before bed

 

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10/30/08, before lunch, a realization of Zackary Drucker's action from Exchange Rate: 2008

 

2008.10.30.ao.REP.now Smaller 2008.10.30.ao.REP.soon Smaller

 

 

10/30/08, after lunch, a realization of REP's [Revolutionary Experimental Spaces] Untitled Aktion, also from Exchange Rate: 2008 (see pics at left; photos by Asher Hartman)

 

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posted by ao, 10/31/08  sound demonstrations  (Michael Pisaro)
2008.10.29.ao.SD1matches

 

 

 

10/29/08, before work, michael pisaro's sound demonstration (1): matches

 

 

 

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