Studio Fontana

Anonymous Allyship (2019)


What

A game that plays with the notion of anonymity where players don’t know who belongs to their team.

How

At the beginning of the game, participants receive a secret number which indicates which goal to aim for and which area to defend. The first minutes of play are always uncertain: Who do I pass the ball to? In which group am I? It is only by recognising and remembering where others attack or defend, that players start to understand which team they are playing for, and teams start to form.

Why

It becomes clearer throughout the game which team you belong to. Knowing your teammates provides you with a sense of belonging to others. This game centres around experiencing what the feeling of belonging brings to you, and how that feeling impacts your behaviour and the way you perform in a group. The game provides a tangible and embodied experience of the abstract notion of belonging and not belonging, and how this affects us as individuals.


Selected workshops

REINVENTING TEAM SPORTS
Nike World Headquarters, Portland (US), January 2023.

OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONALE BIENNALE OF SAINT-ETIENNE
Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne (FR), April 2022.

TOURNAMENT OF THE UNKNOWN - TURNING TOWARDS FLUIDITY
Solo Show. Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam (NL), October 2021.

WORKSHOPS IN PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Comenius College, Obs Dakpark school, Calvin Meerpaal school, Het Lyceum Rotterdam (NL), 2019-2020
Lycée de Coulommiers, Paris (FR) 2021.

QFCPSSBBXOXO:
Trainings for the Not-Yet, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL), November 2019.

QUEER SPORTS
Designers & Hackers Academy,
Amsterdam (NL), August 2019.

QUEERING NOT JUST THE BODIES BUT THE GAME ITSELF
Willem De Kooning Academie, Rotterdam (NL), April 2019.

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), March 2019.

POWER GAMES
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), October 2018.

A TEAM WITHOUT NAME
Urban Playground Festival, Hasselt (BE), April 2017.