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CONCEPTUAL FOOD

Directions: As a group, choose an abstract concept one would like to make concrete. Each person will then secretly choose a recipe ingredient which they associate with this concept. Later, create a meal using these items, and eat it.

Players: HC, SC, AM, T

Concept chosen: “EVIL”

The Recipe
black liquorice
natty light beer
sweet pickles
zebra cakes

Report back: The dominant taste of Evil, perhaps surprisingly, is one of obscene sweetness. A rough, bitter undercurrent of the abyss follows closely at its tail however, and the general feeling is an unpleasant one. One can dimly intuit how one might develop a connoisseur’s taste for it, given enough time.

Irrational Enlargement of a Film Game

Players: JF, HC, T, AM, SC

THE FILM

QUESTIONS

What moon phase is it associated with?

SC: Full moon in September.
JF: The new moon.
HC: Waxing cresent.
AM: Waxing gibbous.
T: Half moon.

If this film was turned inside-out, what film would it be?

SC: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
JF: A “Little Baby’s Ice Cream” commercial.
HC: Schindler’s List
AM: A new Hollywood noir starring Al Pacino as a demented and vengeful detective.
T: Donnie Darko. The children are dead, touching through an alternate universe.

What character in this film is an avatar of a god?

SC: Zeus segmented himself into the three mustaches of this film.
JF: The dream – flashes of a monad.
HC: The children are avatars of the sun and moon gods.
AM: The mother.
T: The children are the gods of sweets, on which we feed during harvest.

Would this film be taxidermied successfully, and why?

SC: No, it is so full of holes that all the stuffing would fall out.
JF: No, it feels like it would have a tendency to rot…too effervescent.
HC: No, because if the inside is gone, it ceases to be.
AM: Yes. It would be stuffed with cotton candy and embedded in stained glass.
T: No, because the dreams of children are immortal.

Which object in this film is avian?

SC: The empty hole in the boy’s pillow.
JF: The tattered garments of the children.
HC: The biscuit donkeys on the cake carosel.
AM: The ice cream flower’s petals.
T: The first turkey.

What animal dreamed this film?

SC: A depressed peacock jailed inside a zoo.
JF: A feathered serpent masquerading as a penguin.
HC: A moon-dwelling cow.
AM: A calf.
T: The first turkey.

Graph Game

Directions: Player 1 draws a graph. Player 2 and player 3 come up with a measurement. Combine all three.

Players: AM, HC, JF, SC, T

There Was Once a House on a Hill

Players: HC, SC, T, JF, AM, S, J

What’d we do? We all brought our laptops, and then opened the same google doc. And then? We all wrote in it, simultaneously and automatically. Wrote over each other, under each other. A 7-way free for all, an Egregore’s cafeteria food fight. The results are below, brave reader. So read ’em.

Gibberish Transcription Game

Directions: One player speaks in gibberish. The others translate these utterings into asemic-style writing. When finished, pass and attempt to translate the writing back into english.

Players: HC, SC, T, JF, AM, S

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Drawing Games – October 2023

Babel Game

Directions: One person gives a monologue in gibberish. The others interpret the story visually or with words.

Players: HC, SC, T, Z, JF, AM

Collective Drawings

Milk Sea, Silver Sea

By Hazel Cline & Steven Cline

An experiment in dual mediumship—A search for that elusive third Other created in the spaces between two people. The pieces in this volume were all written live and collectively, using an online document. One player would begin automatic writing as the other watched. When a natural pause happened in the flow of writing, the other player would immediately jump in, continuing the flow and taking it in directions which to the other player felt totally unexpected. It proved to be a fantastic method for cutting our own limited, predictable selves off at the pass, rerouting too-familiar patterns of thought into unmapped lands. Yes, it was a lovely little adventure we took together here, with chaos at the wheel. Quite a trickster isn’t he, eh? This third invisible Other? One to watch closely, for sure. For sure. We think now that he holds all the keys.

Materialized Concept Game

Directions: Each participant chooses one material characteristic they associate with an abstract concept. Combine them all into one list, and draw it.

Players: HC, SC, S, Z, L, JF, I

CONCEPT CHOSEN: ANARCHISM

Writing Games – Sept. 18

Players: HC, SC, S, Z, L, JF, I

Exquisite Corpse Haikus

Burrowing Creature
Bathed in a fountain of light
I am among these

Where did the cat go?
I love the stars before me
An emissary

Under the elm tree
Love has a shadowy door
Hope for womankind

hard to say out loud
I have no macaroni
It’s in the alley

Butter pancake bet
Law books say it’s all for naught…
Sequence sewn, denied

Dream the centipede
The river is not too bold
A refreshing taste

Butterfly garden
The flower digs deeper, up
Afterburner rats

Cicada farts up
Doubting tomas rorschach test
Sarsaparilla please

I am infinite
An entity that looks for
A lifting of the day

Where the sky shelters
Softly whispered in the night
A smile when you’re sad

At my sister’s wake
A beautiful way to speak
Turn back the clock now

Nobody, really
Please god ask me again, friend
Ok fine…who’s there?

Ham sandwich rocks hard
A mind made up of steel wool
A terrible roar

Down with orchestra
Will there be moonlight shining?
Pinprick in the whale

QUESTION AND ANSWER FOLDING GAME

Where do cows go for repose at the end of summer?
Give it to the farmers.

What is an armadillo?
Because it’s all just illusion anyway.

Why do you find it so tiresome.. the continued effort?
I have too much purple in my wardrobe.

Who put the sticky note in the mailbox?
The swamp where cicadas sing.

Why do you dream?
The white fluff of the sheep holds the key.

Exquisite Assembly Line Game

Directions: Draw an assembly line across a sheet of paper. Draw the first part of a process, and then fold your section over so that the next person cannot see what you have done. The next person draws the second sequence in the process, and so on until completed. At the end, unfold and decide what object is being created.

Players: SC, HC, AM, JF

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Children’s Coloring Book Game

Directions: As a group, draw automatically on children’s coloring book pages, passing periodically.

Players: AM, HC, SC, JF, ADK

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