Perhaps the best known zero-sum, hand gesture game; Rock - Paper - Scissors is thought to date back to the Han Dynasty around 206 BCE. It is one of those rare instances in which a customary tradition becomes so vastly shared and adapted, yet with little to no agenda in its expression or reasoning, that its presence in human life feels almost biologically embedded. It is with this spirit of purity …
Perhaps the best known zero-sum, hand gesture game; Rock - Paper - Scissors is thought to date back to the Han Dynasty around 206 BCE. It is one of those rare instances in which a customary tradition becomes so vastly shared and adapted, yet with little to no agenda in its expression or reasoning, that its presence in human life feels almost biologically embedded. It is with this spirit of purity that this showcase has been curated; four artists intersect from varying viewpoints, offering the most distilled summation of their current practice.
Rock is precisely the orientation in which we …
