Audience vote on who enjoyed the performance most.
For this performance script, I considered the artwork as a property relation which organizes author, performer, script and audience as distinct but mutually constituted categories. The property relation emerges from a financial logic known as the derivative. The “work” was inserted into a program of “citations, cover versions, violations, (non-)realizations, mash-ups, and re-imaginings”, intended to trouble the underlying structures which bind together a musical score and its author(s). The script instructed the audience to “enjoy the performance”; the audience member who most convincingly performed this enjoyment would later win the full intellectual property rights to the performance. At the end of the evening, the audience voted to determine the winner. The financial contract presented is both a performance and a derivative of a performance.