Blocking

This performance was held on June 19 1974 at The Western Front an artistrun centre in Vancouver It was the first of General Ideas five audience rehearsals In these performances the artists instructed their spectators when and how to gasp laugh and applaud ensuring appropriate mass reactions for The 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant a performance in the form of a beauty pageant complete with contestants judges and a winner Blocking was staged as a television broadcast revealing the importance of the documentation circulation and preservation of General Ideas work