Jogo Infinito 2 - O Baralho

INFINITE GAME 2 : THE DECK OF CARDS

The Infinite Games emerged from the research that Colectivo Til has been conducting into ‘play’ and from the desire to translate these insights into activities tailored for adults and a variety of contexts.

In contrast to finite play, infinite play embodies the ethos inherent in ‘free play’, taking it beyond the narrow confines of childhood. In infinite play, we know where we start without knowing where we are going; there is no objective and there are never any winners. The rules are not fixed and can always be reworked as the game progresses.

The Infinite Game No. 2 invites players to create collectively based on instructions drawn from a deck of cards designed for this purpose. This deck is made available here so that any group of people can play independently within their own specific context. Once you have downloaded the deck, simply watch the video and start playing.

This game has been staged in various experimental settings and arts festivals as an activity open to the general public.

For these events, interactive devices were created to encourage people to join in and participate intuitively. The performative nature of the group game is also enhanced by the sound effects and the way the cards are revealed as they are drawn.

The proposal explores creative processes and collective agency through the use of a range of open-ended materials. The game aims to remove these objects and pieces from their everyday uses and invite participants to discover their inherent properties and possibilities, as if seeing them for the first time.

Although the apparatus and materials used were the same, each new context gave rise to new relationships with the existing elements and to different and surprising creative possibilities.