The class was initiated by the Public School New York, hosted by Motto’s bookstore in downtown Brooklyn in Nov. .2010.

(Taeyoon proposed the class. Invited facilitators: Tom Rousotti of Institute for the AestheleticsJoe Milutis The Writhing Society and Kamomi from TPSNY)

Brief introduction to constraint writing by Cornia.

Description of body oriented constraint exercises.

Adapting space- building on collaboration- trial and designed failure.

(Details of the body exercise)

1. Walk around the interior space while avoiding bumping into one another.

2. Gradually slow down while never becoming static. Keep moving around while avoiding contact with another person. Close your eyes. Become aware of the space between other people, smell of another person, and sound that you make in the space.

3. Slowly open your eyes. Keep body contact with another person at all times. place your hands or other body parts in area of other person, in the part where you would feel comfortable being touched. Keep moving.

4. Detach from contact

(Collaborative exercises)

1. Oppositional writing on the window

2. War Journalism with letter bombs

3. Writing with everyone's hands on one pencil

(Students constraints)

Everyone made their own constraints. Images are available in the slide show.

Reference materials are documented in the TPSNY class website on the comment section. In includeds George Perec

Harry Matthew's Lecture at triple canopy

McSweeney's Issue 22

Contemporary examples

Where next class should or may lead into.

Ideas for more physical constraints, and spaces to do it were discussed

Readings about constraints in other art medium, systems in visual art Psychogeography: Learning to program a walk (an experiment in psychogeography)