RESOURCE: FRIEZE JULY/AUGUST 2020
The July/August 2020 issue of Frieze features a series on articles on play and games, including but not limited to: Darran Anderson's reverie about escaping into the classic arcade game Street Fighter II (1991) during the Troubles in Northern Ireland; Orit Gat on sports writing as a visual experience not dissimilar to writing about art (click here to read the full article); Simon Denny and Joanna Pope update the world’s first socialist board game Class Struggle (1978); Jennifer Kabat takes a close look at Lynn Hershman Leeson’s use of avatars and antibodies; and Azby Brown asks: what went wrong for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Stadium?
Unmissable.
LINK: Frieze