LINES — PARAMETERS / ORDER / READABILITY

BASIC SCORE

A group forms a line according to one parameter without naming it; audience attempts to read it.

FIRST PARAMETER

HEIGHT.

LATER PARAMETERS

Anatomy, age, geography, language, experience, mood or invisible biography.

PERFORMANCE TASK

Performers decide what makes ordering legible and avoid unrelated cleverness.

AUDIENCE TASK

Audience searches for pattern, hierarchy, cause, order and meaning.

PERFORMANCE MODEL

Reality appears chaotic; performers impose provisional order; audience decodes it.

VISIBLE / INVISIBLE

Parameters may be written visibly on the body or require gesture, speech, orientation or coding.

POLITICAL TENSION

Sorting bodies may reveal judgment, hierarchy, cultural classification and authoritarian visual logic. The Day 6 proposal acknowledged this discomfort.