TASK is many things–a conceptual artwork and a framework for participatory performance and improvised collaboration, to name a few–but at its core, it is a simple set of instructions for a group activity that can be deployed in a wide variety of contexts and at virtually any scale. In the words of TASK’s creator, interdisciplinary artist Oliver Herring: TASK’s open-ended, participatory structure creates almost unlimited opportunities for a group of people to interact with one another and their environment. TASK’s flow and momentum depends on the tasks written and interpreted by its participants. In theory, anything becomes possible. The continuous conception and interpretation of tasks is both chaotic and purpose driven. It is a complex, ever shifting environment of people who connect with one another through what and who is around them. It is also a platform for people to express and test their own ideas in an environment without failure and success (TASK always is what it is) or any other preconceptions of how an idea, |a material or another person should be engaged.