Frankenstein Game Trial

Curator Jérôme Sans and others /during the opening of This is Fucking Awesome 

F E E D B A C K   A N D   C R I T I C

     This afternoon I gave a trial on my game intervention on the Mafia game, there are several suggestion from the players that I found very useful. 

also it was very fruitful that people who were playing with know each other to a certain degree, and willing to play, and actually put into the role. 

The moderator is a very key factor for whether or not the game would be successful or not, also as a moderator, I have to be careful that what I said and my behavior, body language might affect players judgement.  

• It might be good to walk around the room, so that people wouldn’t be able to guess who I am. 
• Try not to reveal any of the character during the night cycle. 
• Being able to impose strategic thoughts into the players mind. 
• Try to find out a way to manipulate the whole game as the moderator, because the moderator has the ultimate power (MEGA-CURATOR)
• Will the metaphor work?

I found it is very interesting if I keep reminding people that they have to base on their understanding towards each other, also making judgement based on previous events. 

The moderator can play with the memory, and I found it is good to suggest people that they should suspect people’s behavior. 

HOW THE IDEA CAME FROM

Basically the idea came from several texts that I have been given during the seminar discussion, it was involved with a lot of discussion on authorship and the shifted nature of contemporary art scene. It is important that I found the role of the curator requires the ability to not only be a observant also be a predator, Mafia and curator shared several common feature are 

• Dominate Character
• The possibility of collusion (Price fixing with the collectors and auction house) 

It is not to accuse people’s morality, but to think of what is the mean to get what you want. 

It is hard for artists to think they are the civilian, and this is not all true as well. But considering the possibility that after all, it is not everybody who will going to be a predator, so we need to know how to work and how to create the best scenario even if the role that you taken is not the dominate role.  I found the common feature between artists and civilians are 

• Working as a collective
• May or may not have sufficient power.
• The information they know, and the resources they can use, are often limited, and being filtered.
• Emerging artists might often work collectively
• The information of the economic value of their work, the placement of their works aren’t being controlled by the artists during the most cases.  

During the accusation period, is the only time that the artists may have certain power to eliminate the curators, but they have to be careful because the face that curators may affect the situation by accusing another person, or even the critics, and then the artists might ending up eliminate the role who helps them. 




Key to win the game: It is essencial to do during the accusation time (Day circle) for Curators (Mafia), Critic(Detective), Academic scholar(Doctor) to put your feet in other people's shoes, to estimate how they would think and act during the night time. 


It is also very important for artists to question, who is accusing and trying to guide people to support their own goal, rather than consider others benefit? ( Who said this is good art, and how to manipulate the auction price?) 


There will be more allegories for exhibition scenario and the role of academic scholar, Critic later on my blog.  So stay tune.