Playing in situ the band performs regularly several times a week over several months during the exhibition's duration. The Art is defined by a particular length of time in a particular space. A manufactured group, its members are art school students who responded to an advert by the artist that very precisely sets out the terms of its existence.

Everything The Art does takes place in one setting: from first coming together as a band, progressing through first rehearsals to well-practiced group, before finally — and as is contractually inevitable — breaking up.