I was glad to find this picture that Pierre had unearthed from r-echos while researching pictures to be used in tomorrow’s photoshoot for Electronest.
This is a picture by Dutch designers LUST.
I was quite amazed by the similarity it bore with that picture of our desk that I featured on Cumulus last week.

I will be showing a piece of my work at XHIBIT 08.

The XHIBIT 08 judging panel consisted of Yinka Shonibare, 2004 Turner Prize Nominee. Cathy Lomax, director of the Transition Gallery in East London as well as two times XHIBIT exhibitor. James Bull, co-founder of branding agency Moving Brands. The fourth judge was Joyce C Y Lau, a current BA (Honours) Criticism, Communication and Curation: Arts and Design student at the University.

The exhibition will take place for a month from the 2nd of May at the Arts Gallery & Hub Cafe/Bar, University of the Arts London, 65 Davies Street, London W1K 5DA.

After discussing the three players pitches/courts, it became clear that games involving tactics of 2 against 3 wouldn’t undermine the bipolar tension on the pitch, as it would lead to a dynamic that is the one of bullying.

From there the idea is to reflect on group behaviors by observing made-up games involving different levels of partnership.

The multi-teams football game is played on a round pitch, with only one neutral empty goal in the middle of the circle. It has no net, but a hole large enough for the ball to get in instead. A bit like golf, somehow.
For this example let’s imagine that 7 teams of 3 players each are playing. Obviously the winning team is the one that has marked more goals than any other, which implies that there iis one winner for many loosers (instead of 1 winner/1 looser).

The Octoball game is an 8 teams of 3 players (1 stricker, 1 defence, 1 goal). The bipolar tension is now within the team itself. The winning team is the one that marks the more goals, regardless of where they put the goal.

The Decaball game is played by 10 teams (sic) of 1 player and 1 goal each. I can imagine that this version would be highly competitive.

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