September 20th-September 30th, 2024

111 Conselyea Street

Williamsburg, NY

 

​Grace Miskovsky and Rebecca Lipsitch are pleased to present How Do We Play?, a diverse group show comprising nineteen local and international artists. How Do We Play? engages nostalgic and political perspectives on the re-integration of play into the everyday and incorporates spontaneous interactions in live games, swings, and a trampoline.

 

Game theorist and logic teacher Paria Ahmadi presents family photos in Tehran taken from the 70s onward and silk-screen printed onto the backsides of Persian rugs. Tri-color spectrums emerge from the bodily repetition of printing and pressing, mimicking serial numerical systems ingrained in logic and game play, as cultural memory is preserved in traditional materials. Nicholas Cordeiro paints play as animals, as in opposition to violence yet connected to primal motion. Cinematic landscapes freeze adult intimacies in TV frames, then are transposed into Zack Sanyour's painted film stills. Ace Perrone feeds prompts into intelligence bots, producing pixelated female avatars and their accompanying visual stereotypes refracted through algorithmic systems, a process which mimics video game play and head-set discourses. Material is produced by way of digital-channel conversations, through artificial intelligence's parodies of human bodies and personalities.

 

Through Dada, digital, and chance techniques as response to play's cultural neglect, its essential component in human development is realized in multiple capacities; play as an affront to repression, as an act of language, as a theater of parody. 

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