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MDPE.3:2.2 - Choose the smallest performing boundary

Identify separately:

  • the candidate whole that will perform the Work;
  • constituent Systems and their actual constructive relations;
  • external interacting or enabling Systems;
  • material, scores, prompts, choreography descriptions, props, floor area, energy, network access, and other values used by Work without being forced into the System kind;
  • the interval or configuration for which the boundary applies.

A pair can be the whole when the current claim concerns pair-level coordination. A person with a configured instrument or prosthesis can be the whole for a named Work family. An ensemble can be the whole when joint timing and result production matter. An AI model is not automatically the performer because it generated input material.

Apply the general holon and Systems Engineering criteria rather than assuming systemhood from a group label. In reader prose, call the performer a dancer, musician, pair, ensemble, robot, or equipped performer. Use technical SystemRole classification and assignment only when a downstream claim needs them.