KOSMOLOGYM: GYM

DEN FRIE • COPENHAGEN, DK • 2018

Kosmologym: Gym converted Den Frie into an experimental ethics gym. Kosmologym Gym’s five games explore humans’ relationships to each other, animals, plants, institutions and minerals.

As visitors entered they became a member and player. The Changing Room offered a space to let go of yourself and let others in. Regular and special warm-up activities and performances prepared members for games.

Join a team & hold on! Freeze / Release converts basketball’s ballistic ballet into a composition of urgent intimacy to highlight human to human relationships. You can survive alone but you can’t move or score. Stray too far from your team and opponents can freeze you until a teammate comes to the rescue.

Algorithmic Animal uses a heart-driven instrument to question our relationship to our bodies and all the non-human animal bodies we encounter daily. The musical composition is powered by a heart. Sit in the center of the ring with the ear clip attached to your earlobe. In each corner of the ring a controller can change the algorithmic musical composition, trigger individual instruments and turn the player’s voice into song.

Plant Race is a cooperative sunbathing team sport. On a suspended scaffolding two plants slowly make their way over an obstacle course. Beneath the scaffold two platforms wait for sunbathers. Sunbathers can activate a grow light bathing both plant and bather. A collaborative race at the plant’s pace.

Insurance was born in flames but may be extinguished by floods. Probaball examines the institution of insurance through a collective risk protection game. Build & insure your cities and endure disasters for 12 action packed rounds.

Inside our ears the movements of calcium crystals helps us have a sense of our body’s position in space. Calcium Dance challenges players to use their inner ear to guide tiny stones through head-mounted labyrinths inspired by the inner ear.

See the archived project page at kosmologym.dk

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