2012 · Played at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Supported by Machine Project and Getty Pacific Standard Time.
Live role-playing game with modified existential therapy, present based language, carnivorous plants, polygonal sculpture, and psychosomatic debris.
Set in an antiquated version of the far future, Future Gestalt was a series of live role-playing sessions facilitated by the artist. Tony Smith’s polygonal sculpture Smoke (1967) appeared to embody the immaterial AI presence of the encounter group leader. The players interacted directly with the monumental sculpture, each with a distinct style of communication, such as an operatic language of shrills, clicks, and whispers, or a synchronized choreography of movement and voice.
An experiential essay on the mid 20th century drive towards totalized and self regulating systems of communication and control found in the overlap between American minimalism, gestalt psychology, and cybernetics.
