I personally thought the reading was fascinating, intriguing and fun. I had never heard of Fluxus before so I’m glad that I was introduced to a new art form that I can appreciate. I did some research prior to the reading as well that was focused more on the origins, who was considered the first to do it, etc. The three artists that I decided to pick were names that I was familiar with and those were Yoko Ono, Joe Jones, and George Maciunas. I knew of Yoko Ono, thanks John, and the other names were ones that I have stumbled across but nothing more. It was kind of difficult reading the entries because they were written in the style of a piece of sheet music and had music terminology that I wasn’t too familiar with so I had to look certain keywords up to see what they meant. I also struggled with how literal they were at first but eventually, I warmed up to it. For example on page 86 under the piece entitled, Four Pieces for Orchestra, there is a line that says, “Each performer tears off a tape taped upon their instrument”. I interpreted that as saying there is a piece of tape underneath one of the instruments and they tear it off and at first I thought it was very clear but I tried to find some meaning behind it so I re-read a couple of times before I eventually stopped and just accepted it as it was. The whole concept of this movement is very interesting and I’m not sure if I would be more intrigued by actually seeing it or just reading about it like we are doing now. To see the instructions that were given to these performers in order for the piece to go as the artist had planned tells me that there is more than meets the eye. If I were to see this happening without any backstory or history whatsoever, then I would probably look at it very puzzled and I might lose interest or even appreciation. Some of the entries didn’t have a lot of instruction and they seemed kind of like ordinary tasks that I were to do on a normal day except these were carefully calculated and orchestrated. I wouldn’t mind being a performer in some of these pieces if I’m honest and they look like they would be good acting exercises as well.