AT PLAY

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At Play, curated by Cally Trench and Outi Remes, explores ideas about play: making magic and being transformed, passing the time, messing about and making a mess, being yourself and pretending to be someone else, having secrets, making dens, belonging to gangs, creating rules and rituals, taking dares and chances, making and exploring small worlds.

View of At Play 1

View of At Play 1 at South Hill Park, with Territory
by Cally Trench, Skipping Rope by Pernille Holm-
Mercer, Taking a Position by Judy Goldhill and
Sophie Loss, and Build Your Own Hedge Maze
by Samantha Mogelonsky

At Play 1 took place at South Hill Park, Bracknell from 18 April to 21 June 2009.

The artists in At Play 1 were Marco Cali, Marcin Gajewski, Rosie Gibson, Judy Goldhill and Sophie Loss, Susan Eyre, Cathy Hart and Esther Jervis, Aaron Head, Pernille Holm-Mercer, Ingrid Jensen, Philip Lee, Siobhan McAuley, Samantha Mogelonsky, Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich, Kay Sentance , Liz Whiteman Smith, John Tenniel and Cally Trench.

The exhibition re-created in both adults and children a sense of what it is like to be a child at play. A highly interactive exhibition, it encouraged viewers to gaze, remember, touch, explore, trust, think, laugh, peer, concentrate, join in, bend down, take a chance .. and play.

View of At Play 1

View of At Play 1 at South Hill Park, with
Sitting Slip performed by Philip Lee, and
My Brother Breathes for Me by Rosie Gibson

For reviews of At Play 1 on a-n Interface, see:

Review by Tracey Jerome

Review by Areej Abdi

Review by April Bateman


For a short film about At Play 1, see:

youtube film by Arnaud Moinet



At Play 2 will be shown from 17 April to 20 June 2010 at South Hill Park.

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