3 people wear Calcium Dance helmets which make them look like they have rocks for heads or at least hats. A fourth person has just taken a helmet off and is setting it on a bench. Two people in casual clothes watch the rock heads move wackily

Kosmologym is an art and game design collective. Our games challenge players to encounter others (human and more than human) and place human bodies in physical relationships to global systems.

Our Games

DIRTBALL

GOVERNORS ISLAND • NYC, NY USA • 2021

A white and green basketball backboard against a dramatic cloudy sky. Most of the court is grass, one key is a garden and the other is made of concrete pavers. This is a photo of the first Dirtball court at Franconia Sculpture Park.

Now you can play Dirtball on Governors Island. Dirtball is a re-imagined basketball court where humans, plants, animals, minerals and microorganisms play together to nurture soil and fight climate change at the same time.

DIRTBALL: FRUITING BODY

ART PROSPECT • ONLINE/ONSITE HARRISONBURG, VA, US • 2020

A white and green basketball backboard against a dramatic cloudy sky. Most of the court is grass, one key is a garden and the other is made of concrete pavers.

Dirtball: Fruiting Body is a structural prototype of a soil monitoring buoy in the form of a giant overturned mushroom where the sky scratching mycelium host miniature components of a Dirtball court and a flag for the future DIY Dirtball.
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MARTIN DANCE

Flux Benefit Auction • NYC, NY, US• 2019

Looking up from just below elbow height, two people's heads are inside a giant bird house. They are each looking at a mirror that reflects a tiny labyrinth they are navigating by moving their bodies.

Two people play Martin Dance. They are standing, facing each other about shoulder width apart, with bent legs. Their heads disappear inside a large white purple martin hotel with a green roof.

Martin Dance is a purple martin hotel with a two-person head mounted labyrinth. Players collaboratively navigate the labyrinth by moving their bodies and trace the migration of a purple martin from the Amazonian rainforest to Erie, PA, USA. An accompanying soundtrack is composed from the song of migrating purple martins.

ASSEMBALL

VEGA • COPENHAGEN, DK • 2019

A basketball goal on a stick, score boards, costumes and picket signs in a room with wooden walls and floors and geometric decorations

The Cauliflowers are six people all connected to each other by their red jerseys and connectors.

ASSEMBALL offers players a physical way to explore human organizational structures by precariously binding them together. Jerseys and connectors turn teams into representation of various organizations.

Tournament Match 1 Booklet

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LONG DASH: COPENHAGEN

KULTURHAVN • COPENHAGEN, DK • 2019

A family plays Long Dash. With paddles to noses three face forward and the fourth backwards

A team takes on sea level rise

The Long Dash: Copenhagen is a collaborative choreographic climate change resiliency game. The game focuses on the impact of sea level rise and the potential of positive cumulative actions of the three generations between now and 2100.
Read about the Long Dash: Philadelphia

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DIRTBALL

FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK • SHAFER, MN, USA • 2019

A white and green basketball backboard against a dramatic cloudy sky. Most of the court is grass, one key is a garden and the other is made of concrete pavers.

The Dirtball court is a concrete key with text and a basketball hoop, a garden key with a purple martin hotel and a small house for basketballs.

Dirtball is an invitation to a game that is always going on beneath our feet. The court invites you to join this soil making game along with birds, bugs, plants, minerals and weather.
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PLASTIC DANCE

BARTRAM'S GARDEN • PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA • 2019

A person standing on an outdoor stairway at night wearing a Plastic Dance helmet made of trash moving their head so fast it is blurred.

A person standing on the beach wearing a Plastic Dance helmet dancing.

With marble mazes and head mounted labyrinths Plastic Dance explores the path of plastic from the streets of Philadelphia through streams and sewers to the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers and then the North Atlantic Gyre.
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TASTY SCORE

ARTS PROSPECT • SAINT PETERSBURG, RF • 2018

The legs 2 children holding kitchen utensils marching on a chalkboard score.

4 people playing kitchen tools as they walk on the 5 x 5 meter Tasty Score stage

Tasty Score turns recipes into an interactive percussion performance played with kitchen tools.
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Infographic explaining the music notation system

Music notation for Buckwheat Patties / БИТОЧКИ ИЗ ГРЕЧНЕВОЙ КРУПЫ

Recipe for for Buckwheat Patties / БИТОЧКИ ИЗ ГРЕЧНЕВОЙ КРУПЫ in English and Russian

THE LONG DASH: PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia Science Festival • PHILADELPHIA, PA, US • 2018

4 people with neighborhood paddles taking on sea level rise by filling their cups with a large dropper

4 people holding their neighborhood paddles level as they turn in a circle

The Long Dash is a collaborative climate change choreographic challenge. Learn More

KOSMOLOGYM: GYM

DEN FRIE • COPENHAGEN, DK • 2018

Den Frie's exterior with KOSMOLOGYM branding

A person in each of a boxing ring's 4 corner's holding a controller that is connected to a instruments in the center where a 5th player's heartbeat drives the music.

Kosmologym: Gym is an experimental ethics gym. Kosmologym: Gym’s five games explore human relationships to each other/animals, plants, institutions and minerals.
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