Step 12. The Thin Red LineThere is a NAVAs game called Snail Flower which is played on the beach when the tide is low and the wide expanse of sand running down to the waters edge hardens in the sun. The game begins when an enormous spiraling snail flower shell is inscribed and its interior space divided into squares much like a hopscotch game which tapers concentrically inward. The object of the game is to pitch stones into various squares where an opponent (for instance, the curator of an institution like the museum or another artist) must retrieve them while hopping on one foot. With each retrieval the hopper (Edward) must stay on only one foot, avoid toppling over, and continue all the way into the centre square of the snail flower before they are finished. If the hopper is successful they keep the retrieved stone, if not, they must forfeit two of their stones to their opponent, whose turn is then taken. Whoever is the first to hold ten stones wins the game and claims the rocky cache as proof of victory for that round. The greatest prize of all is to be able to keep the precious playing pieces which had originally been chosen with great care by each of the contestants. The collecting of playing stones is a crucial element in the pre-game ritual, with a beach-wide search producing a fine array of specimens which, through the act of collecting, become transformed into valuable keepsakes. The degree of a stones perfection gives the opponent extra incentive to capture and keep it as token of the game, but also to admire it as a beautiful object in and of itself. Credits: Art Director: L.C. von Sukmeister Journalist Witte Raaf: Lyndon Christensen Camera Operator: Suki Location: MAMCO Geneva, Press Conference Room Date: 28 October 2008. Script: Le Chat Script Assistant: R. Duclos, The cartographies of collecting, p. 96-97, 2004. Art: 2.0 The Thin: Red Line Daniel: Buren Museums: And the Future of Collecting (ed. S.J. Knell) Series: OPERATION SILVER FLOWER. OR HOW TO BURN SWISS MONEY code pour embarquer la vidéo : >>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/FpGomIBBVxc <<< |