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Rocking Game

Rocking Game, Martin Gut 2012



"Rocking Game" is not an object to be used for rocking. It is static in its curved form - a combination of a rocking chair and a rocking horse. Impossible to sit in or on.

We do not just assign people into groups such as: babies, teenagers and the elderly; but we also locate them into specific settings: Kindergarten, nursing homes or youth centres.

The "Rocking Game" is envisaged to be for a child-pensioner hybrid. It offers room for a myriad of stories: for the experiences of precocious children or those of childish pensioners. Maybe it narrates the invigorating impact a baby can have on an elderly person as well as the calming effect an elderly person can have on a little kid. Even this religious riddle could resonate: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little childre..."

Wherever we currently stand as human beings (child, adult, senior citizen), everyone will be tempted in their own way to work their way up to salvation.

Whoever plays the rocking game, will hardly feel the same again, but rather as a hybrid being of ones past and present.



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