TEAM: María Teresa García Vedrenne, Mexican and French
THE BOARD GAME:
Danceopoly is the board game that brings the night club to your own living room. If you are lazy to go out clubbing, you can just stay and party at home. All you need is a group of friends to play
Dresscode
Who cares? You can wear your pijamas, or a night dress.
Object of the game
Dance, discover new music, and experience the different situations while moving in the constantly changing dancefloor. The first player to complete the assigned club experience and return to the exit, wins.
How to play
Randomly pick a personality character card. According to the personality you get, there are objects you should find in the board and challenges you should complete. In your turn, look at the top « Public domain » card of the stack without showing it to the other players. Insert a tile into the dance floor in order to reach the square showing the same picture as on your card. If you can’t reach your goal directly, move to the best starting position for your next turn square.
The Yellow submarine, a 1960’s musical icon made famous by UK band ‘The Beatles’. Since 1970 this seafaring treasure has languished out of use. Recently discovered hibernating in a deserted section of Liverpool docks, the once celebrated symbol has been restored and pressed into use to serve a new generation as a unique international boat party experience, undertaking a new destinationless voyage that takes an unpredictable course around the worlds oceans. The ship attracts new audiences, desperate to capture a taste of assorted past musical trends in a continuous, non stop party atmosphere. Party goers leave behind their regular stagnating nightclub venue to step aboard the continuously travelling party ship for an unrestricted period of time. The voyage will take them around the world, open them up to new dance cultures and create chance relationships along the way. To achieve this atmosphere, the captain follows a contemporary navigational aid, a circular rotating map that allows fixed points to be moved, introducing an element of fate and chance as the map in spun. The result is an almost unpredictable route, and one that will encourage a diverse dance experience. Be sure to secure your tickets soon!
In absence of sound, vibrations and lights take over
What if the club was to deny sound and embrace genuine silence as the one and only commonly sensed language of entertainment?
To hell with music we say! (Fig.1) Let us create parasitic artefacts, black boxes next to established clubs, stealing their dj sets, their tracks and sound effects, reconfiguring them into vibration and light. The emerged atmosphere suggests the reinvention of dance as a kinesthetic experience detached from the universals of sound. The artefact is placed next and plugged to a club through multiple wires; each corresponding to a sound channel of the latter’s system. The drawn input is lowered below 120 Hz and then boosted up to produce intense vibrations which are then channeled to the interior membrane cell. (Fig. 2) The cell, made of a flexible material with an organic form, not only vibrates according to the input ‘sound’ but also creates constantly shifting cavities, welcoming the clubber to physically engage and fully explore them with her body. Additionally, the octaves are translated into light frequencies, creating an ever changing color ambience for the interior. (Fig. 3)
SELECTED BY: Marc Roma Trepat Perez
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