How to Explain a Contemporary Art Audience
to a Robotic Hare
A game designed for
Open Engagement 2011: Art + Social Practice,
an annual conference on socially engaged art.
May 14, 2011
We are inviting you to participate in a game designed to elicit opinions about contemporary art and its audience. Our game is based on chance and mystery. It is fully dependent on audience participation.
OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME:
The objective of the game is to foster conversations about contemporary art and its audience.
EQUIPMENT:
• For on-site participants:
A hand-made game board, two dice, ‘Allan’ the robotic hare, postcards, and the passerby.
• For remote participants:
A website (robotichare.com) is designed for off-site participants.
You can send ‘Allan’ a question via this website.
PREPARATION:
The board will be placed on the sidewalk where passerby traffic is expected. The participants will be asked to pick a question from the list. The artist will forward the question to “Allan.” With the help of the dices the answer of the question will be determined. The artist will write the answer on the postcard and ask the participant to provide a mailing address. The answer will be mailed to this address. Each participant will receive a unique answer to the selected question.
EXECUTION:
The receivers of the postcards are asked to scan or photograph (cell phone quality is fine) the postcards, and email the image back to the artists to display on the project website (robotichare.com) with the questions. The receivers are invited to add/edit the answers.
Best wishes,
Arzu Ozkal & Nanette Yannuzzi
