Note
Composer and Fluxus artist George Brecht (born George MacDiarmid) was a pioneer of conceptual art, whose Event Scores provide instructions to complete ordinary tasks. Readers of the score determine the performance, which might take place in public, in private, or not at all. Although never a household name, Brecht changed the course of Modern art, as the participants named on the displayed cards—including Yoko Ono and Nam Jun Paik—demonstrate. Verostko met Brecht in New York, and the two became friends. In 1963, Brecht provided Verostko with 50 cards for Sundown Event here at Saint Vincent, in which drivers assembled in a parking lot and performed tasks such as “turn on lights,” “start engine,“ and “open window.”
