vimes Posted June 11, 2006 .. or at least for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sydney. And I'm not talking about video games, I really don't want to play the wanker these days. No, I'm talking about traditionnal game because the 2006 biennale is hosting a game called La Maison described as this by his creator La Maison (2006) is based on a Nigerian game called Ludo. It consistsof four coloured territories. The goal is to pass through all parts of the game to arrive home. But each time there are road blocks posed by the other territories and the risk is finding one’s self in prison in one of the four territories. The person who wins is the one who can bring these four prisoners home. The form of the work is a woven carpet, upon which people stand to play the game. The concept of weaving plays an important role in my work. It represents to me a unity of crossroads – the more threads and the more treads on the carpet, a symbol of harmony. At the same time La Maison deals with the idea of migration – social unity connected with the concept of weaving. I would have taken a video of the installation but the security guy caught me doing it openly and they forced me to erase the footage... really silly. Anyway, if you're down in Sydney, the part of the bienalle shown at the MCA is a mix of real suprising installation and video installations... some of which are impressive, other are 'interesting' (that's what I'd say about confusing arts I don't really get) and the rests are freakin' 52 minutes long. So yeah, if you're in Sydney go take a look, i don't know if you'll find it worthy but the content is fairly limited anyway. Anyway, I'd really like to see games really aimed at being pure art stuff created to be shown in exihibition, this is the only record I can think of. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vimes Posted June 11, 2006 eh what!? Yeah... that was also my reaction (unless you're talking about the post) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
