One of the Dozens

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One of the Dozens</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is Praxinoscope's fourth print volume in the 2022 PerformX series documenting leading edge transdisciplinary group performance exhibitions in Los Angeles.  In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One of the Dozens</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 20 artists -who worked in pairs or duets- now respond in print form to their own live performances given on December 8 2022 at Beyond Baroque Venice CA. In addition to the work by the artists curators DA Denckla and Matthew Bussa offer their own interventions and prompts to activate and to enhance readers' creative engagement with the text. Readers are encouraged to rip cut crease scribble disregard destroy share and respond. Sources of inspiration for reader instructions trace a tradition of experimental poets and conceptual artists such as Julio Cortazar's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Instruction Manual</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Yoko Ono's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grapefruit </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>or CA Conrad's (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises.</span></p>