ART GAME: ANTONIN FOURNEAU'S SPONGE GAME (2011, 2018)
Created by Antonin Fourneau in collaboration with Manuel Braun, Sponge Game is an installation that requires people to touch each other to interact in a normally solitary game. Thus, touching one person's hand will allow you to move to the right while another person will make you turn. Each person is a function of the game and the group must organize and collaborate in the game. The mechanics of the game, the gameplay, becomes a kind of performance between people who don't know but touch each other.
Antonin Fourneau lives between Paris and Marseille, works all over the world, drawing inspiration from both diverse cultures and local practices. These ingenious and original creations focus on the interactions between the history of technologies, games, light, sound and cinema. Antonin’s work takes different forms : installations, attractions, objects and events. Graduate from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2005, with its collaborative project Eniarof proposing a new form of creative funfair. Antonin wrote a book Eniarof – User guide to make a funfair in May 2017. Eniarof is in full swing, in France and abroad with 29 editions in 2020. Antonin teaches New Media Design at EnsAD Paris, in the Textile and Materials Design section, and co-led the Game Oriented Design (GoD|Art) research group for four years. Antonin is also a guest speaker in various schools.
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