GAME
GAME is a mix-and-match card game where coloured illustrations of the forty-eight male and female figures are split at the waist, allowing players to create numerous combinations by pairing different tops with different bottoms. By allowing the mixing and matching of upper and lower body parts, the game invites experimentation with different character combinations and plays with notions of identity and representation allowing players to create expected, socially normative combinations, or subvert expectations by creating unusual, grotesque or humorous pairings. In this iteration, the cards are organised by sex, on two card tables, one pink, one blue. Alongside them, booklets contextualise the ‘class’ of character alongside a profile of the real person represented, each text is available below.
This type of mix-and-match card game has historical precedent in educational and entertainment contexts with similar games emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as both amusements for children and educational tools.
Click on an image below for a profile of the person assigned to each class
