Collaborator: Can Altay
Commissioning organisation: The Showroom, London
Works: Rogue Game, First Play 2010, Rogue Game Replay 2010 (TV monitor, DVD player, assorted leads, coloured tape)
For the Showroom commission Rogue Game took the form of an offsite event and installation within the gallery in the context of Can Altay’s show, Church Street partners Gazette. A disused sports pitch was transformed by the laying of court lines and reopened for Rogue Game play. Communities of players local to the Borough of Westminster are invited to meet and play a one-off game. The game brings together three different sports staged simultaneously on the same pitch, each game played according to its own rules. Through the simple overlaying of time the event throws the players into unknown territories within established frameworks for play. Known rules are exchanged for new ever-changing rules. Rogue Game proposes another kind of logic for how we might occupy space and how through the informal possibilities of play resist or destabilize accepted boundaries of territory, use and behaviour. Rogue Game Re-play, a 3 channel installation is installed in the gallery. The footage of Rogue Game, First Play interspersed with colour frames stages the court arena as a place for new and renewed partnerships between players extending the show’s concerns for partnership, boundaries, transformation and community.
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