Playground

Unperturbed, ping-pong players keep playing on the ping-pong table, while a group of people (a psychiatrist, a gorgeous interviewer, some unidentified deranged people) discuss the current status of the table. In 2006 the group Transquinquennal received a commission to create a theatre piece featuring a visual artwork that would speak to the audience, like a character in a play. The result of this experiment was Vernissage I, in which the sculpture Untitled (Ping-Pong Table) by Richard Venlet actually never uttered a word on stage. A new experiment was unavoidable. Games People Play is a new production in which the artists elaborate on the same idea. Here the original Untitled (Ping-Pong Table) has somehow lost substance and presents itself to the audience as a ghost.