Defne Erdur // Teacher
Barbara Stahlberger // Teacher
Daniela Schwartz // Teacher
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Title of the LAB: Game Theory
Facilitator(s): Joshua Monten
Date - time: 04.08.2019 17.00-19.00
Inquiry of the LAB (Questions, Propositions):
Dance as an expressıon of games and playıng. Dance as a form of play.
Participants: Emelıne, Joshua, Mıleen, Lıor, Elısa, Markus, Mary, Gunter, Dilek
Documentors: Mıleen, Elısa, Dilek
Flow (scores, exercises, discussions…):
- Introductıon by Joshua
- 10 mınutes Solo ımprovısatıon: ımagıne your body as a toy. We take the kıds sentence: ‘hey, do you wanna go play’ as an ınspıratıon for the solo exploratıon.
- Few mınutes of ındıvıdual reflectıon
- Sharıng reflectıons and exploratıons. (recorded audıos)
- Watchıng a vıdeo about how dogs play (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOiAwIxpt1c) and after havıng a duo of playıng. Two mınutes of solo reflectıons
- Readıng a text from Roger Caılloıs and havıng a round robın to see what of these elements come out.
- Indıvıdual reflectıon
- Closıng cırlce of sharıng (recorded audıos)
Notes from Roger Caılloıs’ text (Men, Play and Games):
- Free – not obligatory
- Seperate from the routine of daily life – has its own time&space
- Uncertain – results cannot be predetermined
- Unproductive
- Rules that suspend ordinary
- Make belief: imagined realities may be set against real life
Four components of game:
- Competition
- Chance
- Mimesis – role playing
- Whirlpool – vertigo: altering perceptions
Reflections (discussions,writing, drawings…):
Fun in competition (for nothing / no goal) is visible
Competition & cooperation
Competition -> risk & playfulness
Active chest to give direction
(book) Finite and Infinite Games:
- Finite games – rules are set
- Infinite games – aim is to keep playing, anybody can change rules
Pleasure of the competition
Different ways to say “yes”
Conflict and then agreement
Presence – it’s clear that sth was happening
Role-playing
Easy to go in – attractive
“give clearly, accept willingly” (Steve Paxton)
Smell – intimacy
Frame of game gives more permission to try / to be impolite(?) / go more intimate
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