Creating my own 'open works' exercise
After doing to 'open works' exercise games in the seminar yesterday, I found the concept interesting, I saw it as games that had no ending, because it depended on everyone individual interpretations, so group games were infinite. I found the beach one quite interesting so I decided to make a game that was similar but used a different concept.
I got 4 players each with a different colour pen, I told them to take it in turns to extend the line and to stop when they all thought the line was long enough.
Initially the players were being cautious and drawing straight small lines and then when one of them realised that it depends on what everyone would call long enough? Or what the lie was long enough for?. They started to use longer lines, making the go in different directions. They thought that it could keep going until there was no white space left and that would be long enough, because it couldn’t go any longer, although this is what they agreed they also know this would take a long time so one player finished the game by making the line go off the age. They decided the line was long enough when it had disappeared.
I found this interesting, the looked at it in a way that if the lines end was unable to be drawn on the paper then that was the end but why couldn’t this line of carried on onto the table for example. t was interesting to see different ways in which these interpretation exercises work and the ay people think about them when playing.
