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“An untold story is richer than a told story. This must be why this medium seems so suitable for the kind of art I tend to create. We can just create existences. We don’t need histories, stories, explanations, meaning. Just things. In all their mute mystery. The beauty of being.”
Tale of Tales are blogging the making of their new game Bientôt l’été with delicacy and generosity. A must read for theatre people interested in interactive things, I’d say. And games people. And writing people. And people people, the kind with hearts and minds and who like getting drunk, and watching strangers in cafes. Here’s another bit:
“Contrary to my ambiguous feelings concerning the multiple deadlines I’m setting myself during this late phase in the production of Bientôt l’été, I actually really like the idea of a videogame that’s never finished.
I think this harks back to my earlier love of the website as an artistic medium. A website is a living thing. It’s always up but changes all the time. As such it’s never finished. To finish a website is to kill it. A website is not built with finishing in mind. It keeps changing, sometimes from the top, by adding new content, sometimes from the bottom, in response to user interaction.”
As mentioned in the launch blog post a couple of weeks ago, I’m running a series of provocations delivered via post-its to fill the space of the Performance in the Pub summer break with something a little more interesting than my inane tweets/facebook updates (or more likely right now, lack of because the internet is an evil mind pollutant oh look a cat with amusingly likely caption!). Anyway, the first was 20 provocations that took a gentle prod at the ‘myspace angle’ generation delivered to me by Andy Field. The collected call and response images are on the twitters, the Facebook, and below (or if flash is a problem, here on flickr). Excited about next week’s! Tune into Facebook or @performancepub at 8pm-9pm and you should see something going up….
