‘to extract pictures from the flow of constant changes and from their perennial possibilities of movement…Stagnation, fixation, death should provoke change and life’

This reminded me of Spoerri’s book An Anecdoted Topography of Chance…
Fluxus artist Daniel Spoerri analyses the 80 objects on his blue table, recording stories and anecdotes that arise. The book is a seemingly exhaustive catalogue / itinerary / archive of the objects found on the table on October 17, 1961 at 3.47pm. There is a drawn map of the position of the objects on the table at the back of the book.

“The procedure of the Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a walk taken in every direction at once’