Game Show: An Exhibition Spring 2001-Spring 2002 Mass Moca

by Heon, Laura Steward

• ISBN13: 9780970073822
• ISBN10: 0970073828
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Te Neues Pub Group

Summary

What's in a game? More than 15 artists explore that question in this wonderfully playful volume that documents an exciting new MassMoCA exhibition of the same name. Scheduled to open in June of 2001, "Game Show" is, not surprisingly, the first major exhibition to investigate this topic. But games have appeared in works of art and philosophy throughout the 20th century as theories about chance, systems, and play have found their way into recent critical thought. The exhibition -- and this book -- includes works by Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Marcel Duchamp, Perry Hoberman, Uri Tzaig, Maurizio Cattelan, Sophie Calle, Carsten Holler, and Gabriel Orozco, among others. Their paintings, sculpture, photography, and video installations explore every aspect of games, from the deceptive simplicity of a soccer match, to the forces of chance and luck to the festinating world of wordplay.

Whimsically -- and beautifully -- designed to resemble a child's activity book, Gome Show features a variety of games designed specifically for this volume by exhibition artists. In

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition	6	(1)
Foreword	7	(2)
Joseph thompson
Game Show	9	(13)
Laura Steward Heon
Double Game	22	(4)
Sophie Calle
Puzzles and Catastrophes	26	(4)
Christoph Draeger
Level One	30	(4)
Chris Finley
Cathartic User Interface	34	(4)
perry hoberman
Telemistica	38	(2)
Christian Jankowski
Ball Walk	40	(4)
Danny O
Maya	44	(2)
Jarvis Rockwell
The Sight and Sound of Music	46	(4)
Kay Rosen
Universal Square, Trance	50	(4)
Uri Tzaig
Not Games Now	54	(4)
Mark Tribe
Alex Galloway
The Intruder	58	(2)
Natalie Bookchin
Jackpot	60	(2)
Maciej Wisniewski
Pencil Whipped	62	(2)
Lonnie Flickinger
SOD	64	(2)
Jodi
Trigger Happy	66	(2)
Thomson
Craighead
Fluxus Games	68	(8)
Tara McDowell
Checklist for the exhibition Fluxus Games from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Foundation, Detroit	76	(2)
Artists Biographies	78	(34)
Java Manuelpillai
Laura Steward Heon
Checklist for the exhibition Game Show	112