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[Make a new shirt and wear it. Give someone a sobriety test. Find Ann and sing her a song of your choosing. Make a boat. Look at everyone’s eyebrows – find the ones you like best. Relax and just watch the event for a while. Make it rain. Save someone’s life. Teach an aerobics class. Pretend to do something unethical. Star gaze.]

What is a TASK Party, you might ask? There are two basic rules that participants follow:
1) Write down a task on a piece of paper and add it to a designated “TASK pool.”
2) Pull a task from that pool and interpret it any which way you want, using whatever materials are available. When a task is completed, a write a new task, pull a new task, and so on.

TASK is the brainchild of artist Oliver Herring, who has facilitated these events all over the country. Of TASK, he says:

“TASK’s open-ended, participatory structure creates almost unlimited opportunities for a group of people to interact with one another and their environment. TASKs’ flow and momentum depend on the tasks written and interpreted by it’s participants. In theory anything becomes possible.”

Take a look at these links for more info and images from past task parties around the country:

http://oliverherringtask.wordpress.com/
http://taskseattle.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TASK_party

Images from past TASK Parties:

Tang TASK Party

Flux TASK Party: