- DO ONE THING AT THE TIME
- KNOW THE PROBLEM
- LEARN TO LISTEN
- LEARN TO ASK QUESTIONS
- DISTINGUISH SENSE FROM NONSENSE
- ACCEPT CHANGE AS INVEITABLE
- ADMIT MiSTAKES
- SAY IT SIMPLE
- BE CALM
- SMILE
How to Work Better by Fischli/Weiss (1991)
“Taped to the wall of my studio is an A4 photocopy of a short ten-point manifesto by Fischli/Weiss entitled “How to work better”. I don’t know who put it there, but it has been in place for at least three years. It’s a tongue-in-cheek work using a motivational statement, which is a piece of found text they subsequently enlarged and had painted on the exterior of a building as part of a public commission. I sometimes show it to students at the beginning of slide lectures, and always point it out to assistants who come to the studio. I like it quite simply because it acknowledges their awareness of the idea of practice rather than production”.
(Ryan Gander, from Dexter Sinister Library)
