HOW TO PLAY

HOW TO PLAY

Sep 10–Oct 18

 

HOW TO PLAY is an exhibition that explores game play as a form of creativity and making — making spaces, making community, and making new worlds. Games can happen spontaneously, with few rules and little equipment — such as the games seen in Francis Alÿs’ Children’s Games, an ongoing collection of videos documenting childhood games from around the world. Or they can be formally constructed, imaginative explorations of storytelling that allow players to leave with physical traces of the world they build — such as A Mending by Shing Yin Khor. During the run of the show, visitors are also invited to play and create their own games using a few props in the gallery space. HOW TO PLAY seeks to interject the everyday with a different kind of learning and joy, showing how playing can build empathy and support curiosity and changing perspectives. 

 

A Playful Worldbuilding and Game Design Workshop

Led by Shing Yin Khor

Fri, Oct 16

Exhibiting artist Shing Yin Khor leads a hands-on workshop about collaborative worldbuilding, design, games, and physical artifacts. Drawing from playful models of creation, such as TTRPGs, LARP and board game design, participants will create small games, engage in quick writing exercises, and construct props within a collaborative universe in order to develop a shared community lineage and history. 

 

Presented by Cal Poly Art & Design. Exhibition organized by Jayme Yen.