The New Games Tournament: Relics
Coaxial Arts Foundation. Los Angeles, 2017
This exhibition condenses the essence of The New Games Tournament onto white canvases, placing various items (hardware, suburban home and garden fixtures, game pieces, sports equipment) onto tableaus that form an ephemeral collection of notable “relics” from the fictional sport. The New Games Tournament points to an unknown subculture full of pomp and circumstance. Its members gain prestige via an implied athletic or theatrical performance. In reality, the narrative details reside only in the observer’s individual interpretation of the installation. The rules of the games themselves are unknown, and only evoked via ambiguous objects and imagery.
(Photos by Dalton Blanco)