"DeSporting" at St Paul Street Gallery Three
Aug .2014
Aukeland
Aukeland
Our task is to create a course (for children aged 8-12) where a constant fluctuating transfer [i],[ii] ,[iii] is taking place between two quite different domains. Both are riddled with prejudices.
In this domain-driven approach, organized physical exertion (under the pretext of encouraging associated benefits of identity-building[iv] and good health and dexterity) will hereinafter be referred to, against all better knowledge, as sport, infamous for its role in the world[v] of entertainment.
Communicating emotions[vi] and the representation of reality that builds a branch of human creativity[vii] will hereinafter be referred to, against all better judgment[viii], as art[ix], infamous for its role in the world of entertainment.
By sheer lack of expertise, time, and willpower, we will not try to teach any hard-to-learn sports discipline or subject the audience to competition or any other human condition largely considered unwholesome, but to build an ambiance of organized physical activity in a liking to an art installation,[x]the surroundings with which the subjects[xi] may feel comfortable to interact in topically different ways.
And structured in such a way that the subjects [xii] are mentally and physically involved in augmenting and ebbing intensity, where physical/mental activity is hyperbolically inversed to repose and vice versa. Each zone of activity intends for maximum transfer through successive experience and aims to minimize internal (boredom, fatigue) and external (amount of visitors, lack of space) resistance.
To give you an example: Active role playing (aka mimesis[xiii]) projections inside the Shadow Theater leads over to the Sports Museum, where artifacts reflect passively (aka mimesis [xiv]) back onto the observer.
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