Board Game with Beautiful Rubbish
2019 - Ongoing .
Mirrirors, carpet, and objects lined up aginst the walls of the room.
For the game, each player gather a number of objects from the archive of beautiful rubbish.
The players then take turns to move the objects. The remains of the game create temporary sculptures.
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Installation detail Accelerator
The board game, which is often part of a performative film screening, opens up for an associative and non-linear co-creation/reading of living narratives.
This way of reading/creating becomes a way of participating in the storytelling through attunement to differences becomes like an ongoing montage, where multiple connections and associations arise without a dominant narrative limiting them.
Tender connections between different materials and materialities such as texture, images and sounds that together can hold an experience together, allowing for a complex carrying where the different elements interact freely without being drowned out by each other.
This creates a playful atmosphere where different possibilities arise, which in turn affects how the moving material is experienced. Instead of being static and fixed, the material becomes part of a constant flow.
The board game is built on the elements that define play: the absence of goals and winners. In certain social interactions, such as participating in play and games, the autonomic nervous system can create the bodily reactions that are a prerequisite for curiosity.
In that montage-listening, in being involved, I hope to create a kind of playful and critical awareness that is not just intellectual in the narrow sense. The montage then takes place on several levels, in space, on the screen, but also in interaction with our biology and different temporalities.
Where Rethorst uses participants' belongings as game pieces, I have chosen to use forgotten things that could be defined as rubbish. one defination of waste. ( from the british goverment) that my freind gave to me is "Substances or objects that can no longer be used for their original purpose." I have collected various forms of beautiful rubbish over the years.
For the game, each player gather a number of objects from the archive of beautiful rubbish.
The players then take turns to move the objects. The remains of the game create temporary sculptures.
Installation detail Accelerator
The board game, which is often part of a performative film screening, opens up for an associative and non-linear co-creation/reading of living narratives.
This way of reading/creating becomes a way of participating in the storytelling through attunement to differences becomes like an ongoing montage, where multiple connections and associations arise without a dominant narrative limiting them.
Tender connections between different materials and materialities such as texture, images and sounds that together can hold an experience together, allowing for a complex carrying where the different elements interact freely without being drowned out by each other.
This creates a playful atmosphere where different possibilities arise, which in turn affects how the moving material is experienced. Instead of being static and fixed, the material becomes part of a constant flow.
The board game is built on the elements that define play: the absence of goals and winners. In certain social interactions, such as participating in play and games, the autonomic nervous system can create the bodily reactions that are a prerequisite for curiosity.
In that montage-listening, in being involved, I hope to create a kind of playful and critical awareness that is not just intellectual in the narrow sense. The montage then takes place on several levels, in space, on the screen, but also in interaction with our biology and different temporalities.
Where Rethorst uses participants' belongings as game pieces, I have chosen to use forgotten things that could be defined as rubbish. one defination of waste. ( from the british goverment) that my freind gave to me is "Substances or objects that can no longer be used for their original purpose." I have collected various forms of beautiful rubbish over the years.
Kunsthalle Osnabrück.
Accelerator. Photo: Jean-Baptiste BérangerThe board game is based on an exercise by choreographer Susan Rethorst (the game), as I have learned from dancer, teacher, and choreographer Juliette Mapp.
Accelerator. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
Uniarts Stockholm. 
Accelerator
Installation view Accelerator. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger
Installation detail Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Photo: Angela von Brill