"ROOT GAMES"
Interactive installation,
created in the art residence "LAZINESS" of the Art-Park "Nikola-Lenivets" and presented for the first time at the festival "ARCHSTOYANIE", 2020

The installation space invites you to play and contemplate.

The Interactive installation "games of roots" is a hybrid space that combines the territory of art and the territory of the game. Th e installation invites you to immerse yourself in the game, as one of the manifestations of our laziness, our identity, to escape for a while from the usual actions and daily routine.

The idea of the work was born in the process of observing life in the art Park "Nikola-Lenivets", which mixes "urban" and "rural", traditional and ultra-modern, everyday and fantasy, real and beyond. The installation reflects these observations in the aspect of a person's sense of identity in the modern world: "What space do I belong to? What can it say about me? Is the "sense of roots" important and how is it transformed in today's cosmopolitan reality? Do I feel connected to the ancient patterns of the space I was born and raised in? What is the geometry of this space: point house, circuit city, country, planet?

Thus, on the one hand, through minimalistic visual language of white wood recreates the metaphor of the circulation of historical memory in the structure of identity of modern man. Playing games that contain elements of traditional Slavic games and complement them with modern fantasies and ideas, we live the moment of interconnection and development of the past "roots", the present, what is in us and what is more than us.

Each playing field has a fluxus-score, which contains only the initial game conditions for this field. It is assumed that the participants, starting from the basics, will figure out the rest on their own, and immerse themselves in the gameplay, explore the possibilities of each playing field.

During the festival, performative games are periodically held on the territory of the installation.

Anyone can come and indulge in lazy games at any time of the festival. More than one person is desirable for each game.