Hot Rod Biology

At the moment I'm looking at games. Why? Play and process ñ chance, random nature of experience. Different possible outcomes. Audience interaction. Generative process.

The Surrealists used games in this way, as did Dada, and Fluxus . . . quite often nonsense games that require us to question preconceptions and develop new ideas about 'how' to play or participate. Well known Surrealist one is the 'Exquisite Corpse', where you fold a piece of paper in thirds, and each player draws on a third making up one picture when the sheet is unfolded. A fluxus game of interest involves a Backgammon board with Chess pieces.

Both these examples relate to my idea about hybrids. I think I need to work on defining my notion of hybrids and come back to this?

In terms of Appropriation, I imagined I could use an existing board game and repackage my images within it, and 'as' it?

I'm also looking at trashy magazines. In particular "New Idea" because I like the title, and the before/after type narratives would provide the Hybrid idea with a way of being played out. Also looking at 'Hot Rod' magazines too ñ same before/after narratives, and the idea of customizing. These came from my earlier 'Vernacular' trigger though.

Third idea is a biology text book. My references to hybrids in biology obviously lead me here. But there's also a nice link to ideas about process/systems involved in a science text too ñ especially notions of truth. Putting together a book of this kind with the images I have [Elvis, McCahon, etc] would be an interesting exercise in appropriation too perhaps . . .

So . . . I think I need to redefine the triggers before deciding!