Monday, January 26, 2015

pREISE & game epiphanies in o tigre de Lisboa: #10: What the prison (a cadeia) gave me

Selective focusing in Estremoz.
Patterns recognition for metaphorical demonstration of behavioral patterns.
(some verses for political prisoners)



Some examples of
being on top
as a major reason to loose.
X” always sits on the
bottom,
left,
corner
with its first move.
O” always
being on top
with its first move,
is the trump for “X”
to win in any of these game situations. 









Sunday, January 25, 2015

pREISE & game epiphanies in o tigre de Lisboa: #9: Big in Estremoz

Veronika Tzekova/ Big as one's wishes

A Sunday presque vu (once I have to go back to the central square of Estremoz) and its prequels: 






P.S. After posting this, a thought occurred to me: did I played again in front of a religious building (the Capela Nosso Senhor dos Inocentes)? 
So another Sunday presque vu: Dadissuasorihttp://challengedgames.blogspot.co.at/2015/01/cdoupbles-dadissuasori.html



Saturday, January 24, 2015

CDoupbles :: Dadissuasori

Veronika Tzekova/ Dadissuasori
Intervention on broken urban furniture / Graffitti

La Pigna, San Remo, Italy, 2010
CDoupbles, 2013- ongoing

Dadissuasori
(in Italian dissuasori=bollards and dadi=dices)
Intervention on broken urban furniture / Graffitti
La Pigna, San Remo, Italy
2010

The bollards were placed in front of St.Giusepe church in La Pigna, San Remo, Italy to prevent cars from passing and parking.
At the moment of the intervention they were randomly displaced (pic.1). 

pic.1: before
Employing their positioning and dice-like shape, I turned them into huge dices thrown on the small square to monument the shifting fortune in the competition between planned urban environment and personalized appropriation of space (pic.2). 
pic.2: making it
Strangely some functionary of the church found it blasphemous and painted over the dots (only) of Dadissuasori, making them even more sad and ugly (pic.3). 
pic.3: censored
How far an institution, and even more religious institution, can and should control public space outside its premises? Dadissuasori were the first permanently installed art piece in public space in La Pigna, with the potential to turn a sad destruction sight into landmark.



Friday, January 23, 2015

CDoupbles :: Sweetshirt





Veronika Tzekova/ Sweetshirt (“My Boss Is Turkish”)
various advertisement media, 2002-2005
Veronika Tzekova, CDoupbles, 2013- ongoing

The Sweetshirt confronts stereotypes related to nationality, origin and religion and in particular related to the use of the word “Turkish”, inspired by its heavily loaded with social, historical and political meanings in a country like Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, etc. The aim of the project is by using various means of presentation and action, the social and mass media structures, for advertising the sentence “My Boss Is Turkish” to raise emotions and send messages that re-energize personal, social, political and historical issues.

Feelings about the messages, which the project communicates, were sometimes impulsively influenced by the “local climate” they were born, and this causes quite interesting geographical fragmentation of the opinions. The Sweetshirt invites multiple, may be even contradictory readings and at the same time takes no position and thus allows them to coexist and complete each other leaving space for dialogue.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

@ Games & Playing @ Literature #4 :: playing fast and loose and SHAKINGhisSPEARE again



Loues Labour's lost

by William Shakespeare



(Actus Primus.)

Clow. Let mee not bee pent vp sir, I will fast being loose
Boy. No sir, that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison

...

(Actus Tertius.)


Clo. ...To sell a bargaine well is as cunning as fast and loose


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Play fast and loose

Etymology

From the con game Fast-and-loose, a cheating game played with a stick and a belt or string, so arranged that a spectator would think he could make the latter fast by placing a stick through its intricate folds, whereas the operator could detach it at once.

Verb

play fast and loose
  • (idiomatic) To ignore proper behavior or social conventions, especially when it suits one's purpose.
  • (idiomatic) To be recklessly inaccurate, inappropriate, or otherwise ignoring guidelines and conventions.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

@ Games & Playing @ Literature #3 :: France. The FRENCH KING'S camp :: Play fast and loose with faith?


William Shakespeare

King John

("It is believed to have been written in the mid-1590s but was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623.")






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Play fast and loose

Etymology

From the con game Fast-and-loose, a cheating game played with a stick and a belt or string, so arranged that a spectator would think he could make the latter fast by placing a stick through its intricate folds, whereas the operator could detach it at once.

Verb

play fast and loose
  • (idiomatic) To ignore proper behavior or social conventions, especially when it suits one's purpose.
  • (idiomatic) To be recklessly inaccurate, inappropriate, or otherwise ignoring guidelines and conventions.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

CDoupbles (a visual one) :: What are the common charms, which Charlie and Muhammad share? Are the blonds the new Muslims?




Veronika Tzekova, CDoupbles, 2013- ongoing






P.S. Blonds are subject to merciless irony in the blond jokes for ages, are they also suspected terrorist?