PLAYING UP
A Live Art Game for Kids and Adults
PLAYING UP is an artwork by Sibylle Peters and Theatre of Research, exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations. Drawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together.
On this website you will find project information, notes on how to play, and announcements, as well as documentary material from PLAYING UP events.
PLAYING UP is a collaboration between Theatre of Research, Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and Tate Early Years and Family Programme.
In 2021, the PLAYING UP Gender edition was launched, developed and produced by FUNDUS THEATER I Theatre of Research, in cooperation with the Live Art Development Agency.
Make clothes out of food, lie on top of cars, dance with animals, have a ketchup fight, follow a random passerby , invent your own form of sport, search for miracles.
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🌈 PLAYING UP GENDER 🌈
PLAYING UP GENDER is a Live Art game for kids & adults and everybody in between. It allows participants to explore questions of gender by means of Live Art.
PLAYING UP GENDER consists of 12 cards. Each card references a piece of Live Art and ends with an instruction, that allows players to re-enact the piece. The game features pieces of Live Art from recent years and puts them in context with the history of Live Art and gender. The cards are selected and designed for all kinds of starting points within the gender spectrum and strive to open up escape routes from the gender binary.
Events
Find out about forthcoming and past public events.
Have you been Playing Up?
Send in your photos, videos and text and we will include them in the gallery.
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Want to play?
PLAYING UP is available as a box, 37 cards, lots of stickers and textbook.
Published in April 2016.
Read About Playing Up
We commissioned writer Mary Paterson to reflect on the PLAYING UP launch and symposium.