Artists’ Games
Bathers Library Artist Games series invites artists of all disciplines to create accessible games and instruction art projects.
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by ALEXANDRA PINK
“The Infinite Play” is a comedy, mystery, tragedy, drama, musical, farce, or spectacle about time, language, power, beauty, age, desire, theater, misunderstanding, and magic for sorceress, bird, prophet, child, chick, friend, horse, rider, king, squire, inn maid, inn cat, Ovid, time traveller, beauty, painter, mirror, poet, director, pan, purveyor of wigs, mime, visitor, companion, architect, student, Martha Graham, ticking clock, curtain, voice, cupid, thirty-eight year old man, mourner, detective, and lover.
FORMAT
6×9” envelope with 35 play scripts. Risograph printed on French Paper; edition of 100.
Alexandra Pink is an artist and writer living and working in San Francisco. Her work, which ranges from stage, screen, and sound, engages with language and image at the boundaries of genre, syntax, and form. She is in charge of skits at family gatherings.
by HELEN IP
Aura-Modz is a calendar of cosplay for the identity-adventurous. Become a head of lettuce for a day. Become Ariana Grande. Become Wi-Fi. Leave yourself behind, embrace the personality flux of Aura-Modz.
FORMAT
6x9" envelope including 36 page 2-color risograph booklet with neon foldout; edition of 100.
Helen Ip is a certified design pirate bouncing between the worlds of corporate America and the liminal chaos of relational aesthetics lol
by AMY LANGER
Well, Goodnight Then is a bedtime ritual for two or more people who plan to sleep in the same place. Say goodnight to the light. Let the house settle. Walk softly.
FORMAT
6x9" envelope with risograph printed instruction sheet; edition of 100.
Amy Langer is a writer, performer, and founding ensemble member of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. She prefers not to talk about herself, but if you simply must know more, you can go to: amymlanger.com
by SAPPHO BOOTLEGS
Some say ******** is the highest form of art. I say it is the priamel, a list-like poetic device. Learn how to make your own with instructions from Sappho Bootlegs.
FORMAT
6x9" envelope with 8 page risograph zine; edition of 100
Sappho Bootlegs is a purveyor of hats, printed bootlegs, and carabiners.
A deck of prompts for walks. Perform them alone or with others. Use them across worlds and dimensions.
FORMAT
6x9" envelope with four sheets of perforated cards; edition of 100.
Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in San Francisco, whose work is often informed by their ongoing practices with wildlife observation, folk spiritualities, experimental self-publishing, computational poetry, and trickster studies.
by GABRIEL GARZA
Gather detritus on your trailing around public space, turn the found pieces into a sculpture by assembling them in energetic ways.
FORMAT
6x9" envelope including one 3-color risograph poster and four 4x6" photographs by the artist; edition of 100.
Gabriel Garza is a drawer and sculptor who loves listening to records and making dinner. He was born in 1995 and hopes to live a long time.
A RITUAL FOR RAGE by TRACY REN
A Ritual for Rage is a limited edition (of 24) candle holder, amulet and candle set created by Tracy Ren. Each piece is handmade by Tracy, and comes in a custom-designed box.
FORMAT
1 Ceramic Candle Holder (hand built)
2 Beeswax candles (hand dipped and dyed with madder root)
1 Pocket Amulet (made with brass bells, copper wire, and yarn dyed with madder root)
1 Ritual Guide
Tracy Ren is an interdisciplinary artist who calls on the energetics of natural materials and the poetics of craft processes to create objects, sculptures, installations, and more. Though their work is often deeply personal, their goal is never to center their own story, but rather to offer opportunities to co-create unique experiences with each person who views or interacts with a given piece. What unifies the vast expanse of their artistic interests is a desire to connect—to themselves, to others, and to the world at large.