How do we play, and why? For the Dutch Historian Johan Huizinga, one essential ingredient of play is the creation of a bounded space that he calls the, “magic circle,” a temporary world with its own rules. In the view of anthropologist David Graeber, play is a fundamental (if scientifically challenging) characteristic of animal behavior, a kind of activity that does not need a purpose to matter.
In this study, we’ll bring the two together to think of ourselves — and conduct ourselves — as human animals with the capacity to create (local) worlds of play.

Text: Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens & David Graeber's What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

Date: Wednesday, November 26th @ 7pm

Location: Bushwick with Alice & Kyle