When I’m Gone: Scores for Quasi-Survival (2022)

Painted wooden box, printed scores, flash drive with the sound of a river on it, string, 12 in. x 8 in x 2 in.

"When I'm Gone: Scores for Quasi-Survival" is a series of performance scores, or instructions for performance, which are to be completed after I am no longer alive. Inspired by Abou Farman's essay "Post-Secular Aesthetics,” where Farman asks how artists can think of ways to creatively “quasi-survive.” “When I'm Gone" seeks to take up this proposition. There is a digital version of the work in the form of an interactive PDF and a physical box which includes a preface for the scores, the scores themselves, and materials for enacting them. This is a living archive which asks others to be active interpreters and enactors of the scores.

Inspiration also came from Fluxus scores. The title is after the Elizabeth Cotten song of the same name.