Describe Walking Backwards
The intention with this intervention is to promote, foster, breed experimentation through
reflexive copoietic activities within a playful arena. Operating inside simple, familiar game
frameworks, criticality occurs at the coal face – the site of activity and subsequently
between actions and loops of activity. Participants will loop through cycles of activity,
generating forms, ideas and problems. Accidents, entropy, feedback, mistakes, fun and
failure can simultaneously be elements of practice and research.
“The tools are ready at hand: while necessary actions of economic agents circulate in ways
that constrain social relationships and human freedom, free actions of aesthetic and ethical
agents may shatter the necessity in ways that transform constraints.”
Steven Schroeder: Between Freedom and Necessity.