Assignment:

Find a tool and use it differently than the intended function 50 times and document.

Guided Questions:

What would happen if you tried chopping vegetables with a hammer? What if you used a lunchbox as a napkin? What if you used a clock as a rug? What if you used a hanger as a bookmark? What if you used a pool noodle as a belt? What if you used a printer as a pillow? I want students to ask "what if" and write down a list of 100 tools they can think of that they have access to and then pick one tool and write down a list of what that tool could be used as using the list of 100 tools.

Artist: Koki Tanaka

Koki Tanaka is one of my very favorite video artists who made a project called "Everything is Everything" where he uses everyday objects differently than their intended function. "On the occasion of the Taipei Biennale, Me, my friends and my gallerist went to Taipei city, then found mere materials in daily use which is you can easily find in most of asian city. We were collecting the moment of improvised "performance" with those objects to activate possibility of how we could see it differently.” Here is the link to "Everything is Everything"

Using the 50 photographs, sound recordings, or drawings, I think it would be neat for each student to make a photo book, or perhaps a video piece like Koki Tanaka’s.