Studio Fontana

Multiplayer mode (2018)


What

A game played in a three team format, inspired by the triolectic soccer field, developed by situationist artist Asger Jorn.

Why

To challenge the rigid binary structures that result in ‘winning’ or ‘losing’. The game encourages an opening up to more than two competing teams, and seeks moments of vulnerability and transgression.

How

Unlike conventional football, where the winner is the highest scoring team, in this three team version, the winning team is the team who has the fewest goals scored in their goal. Even if the element of competition is still present, thetriolectic format gives more space for collaboration, in the sense that two teams can team up on the field against the other, creating a situation where your enemy and allies are constantly changing.

→ See project Queer Sports workshop.


Selected workshops

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.

SPORT, NATIONALISM & FICTION
Design Beyond Change Symposium, Basel (CH), March 2017.


Multiplayer mode game, Queering Not Just the Bodies but the Game itself, public event at Willem De Kooning Academy Rotterdam (NL), 2019.
  • Bringing theory into the gym, Multiplayer mode game, workshop at Willem De Kooning Academy, 2019.
  • Beginning of the Multiplayer mode game, workshop at Willem De Kooning Academy, 2019.
  • Lecture by Gabriel Fontana, workshop at Willem De Kooning Academy, 2019.