Went down to the arts community cinema in town, on a Sunday morning to try out the art game works.
I did bring three, but in the end only played Sign Language Duel.
It was a make and mend day and felt the hands fitted in and it was something that people could pick up the easiest I now realised. I didn’t get to do it with that many people in the end, only 3, with me playing in with the third person. I did though seem to talk more about what it was and what it was all about than actually playing it. I had been thinking of the strength of having the artist present, e as part of the interface to help bring people into the work, especially to begin. But here it was a distraction.
I only had an hour on the day, and it started quickly, but then a couple of people came in and just got into a very long conversation about games, and their game ideas, and what it was I was trying to do. People picked up the hands, and examined the various levels, but the conversations became so involved, that in the end I didn’t have a chance to have a go with anyone else. It was interesting as well, as people keep telling me how I could make the hands better. Though they were impressed with them. It was all pleasant enough. It’s an interesting space and want to go back again, maybe this time more prepared.
It was a very different response to before, it seemed to fit in to the space, maybe because of the activity, and while questioned nobody seemed to wonder why it was there or how this could be art. The rounds were good though, and people really had a go, and seemed very competitive. Also the couple who played and are a couple got the same signs three times in a row, once more causing hilarity as the incredulity of this steadily growing improbability There is some kind of game there. ALso people wondered if this was what i did, as a job, that in some way it was a monetised or job going around doing sign language duel. People really enjoyed just examining the hands as an artefact.
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