Other Arrangements: Poetics of the Performance Score

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“Other Arrangements: Poetics of the Performance Score,” 2024

Installation view Remai Modern (Photo: Carey Shaw) (courtesy of the Gallery)

Like music, performance often uses a score of text, diagrams and pictures that detail the live work on paper. In performance, however, there is not a standardized system of notation with staffs, clefs and notes. Without defined rules, artists have played with the performance score’s malleable form to create expressive new works.

Other Arrangements presents a range of artistic responses to the score, from open-ended invitations and playful proposals to poetic appeals to the body and weather. The exhibition highlights the ways artists use performance scores to invoke action and possibility.