World Game of Life with Joseph Del Pesco

The World Game of Life: Joseph del Pesco Tuesday, Feb 6, 2013 Temple Contemporary Two classic American board games created more than 100 years apart - Milton Bradley's The Checkered Game of Life, and Buckminster Fuller's The World Game - both represented, dialectically, key tensions in contemporary life at the time. Curator Joseph del Pesco has convened a group of ten artists to collectively produce a third game that borrows mechanics and aesthetics from each of these classics. Come play the new game with us, and leave with a free copy of the game board in hand. The Checkered Game of Life was invented by lithographer Milton Bradley in Springfield Mass. in 1860. It was widely distributed as a travel game to soldiers during the American Civil War. The World Game was invented by Buckminster Fuller in 1961 as an attempt to collectively imagine the total distribution of resources on "spaceship earth" resulting in the end of scarcity, poverty and war. The two games represent, dialectically, a key tension of contemporary life. On one hand, the Checkered Game of Life presents a competitive individualistic narrative that combines chance and choice. On the other the World Game presents a cooperative think-tank where a radical shift in meta-level perspective might lead to a utopian balance of power, reuniting the total "human family." Today we each face the complexity of understanding and integrating the individual and the collective, the self and society, or as it's more often phrased spatially: the local and the global. Joseph del Pesco the director of the San Francisco branch of the Kadist Art Foundation. His practice as a curator, writer and media producer is marked bya collaborative working approach and a pursuit of experimental institutional strategies.He has previously held positions at the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, and Artists Space and participated in residencies at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada andFondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo in Torino, Italy. He has also realized numerous independent projects in the Bay Areaincluding the Pickpocket Almanack at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the CollectiveFoundation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Secret Society at the Berkeley ArtMuseum. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including the recent catalog for the exhibition Six Lines of Flight at SFMOMA, and the journals Fillip, Manifesta Journal, Mousse, Art in America's website, Utne Reader, X-Tra, Flash Art, and NERO. * Participating artists include: Al McElrath, Christian Nagler, Jason Fulford, Stephanie Syjuco, Amy Franceschini, Anthony Discenza, Kristina Lee Podesva, Rhonda Holberton, Jacob Wick, Justin Limoges

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