Touring the Social Imaginary

CN: It was more like nostalgia a little bit.

AF: I think it was a mixture. Because I think they were maybe expecting something 2D or something like the previous show. So I guess at the beginning they were a little shocked about the whole thing. The curator Alex [Wang] liked the concept. But to be honest, I cannot tell you what the staff felt in the end.

PLAySPACE: What was it like to work in a nontraditional gallery space?

AF: We were super busy with school at the time and I think this feeling of pressure makes the output, makes the humor. Every time I am super angry I do something funny in a very bad way. And I think the kids poster was the best example of that last minute sense of humor. Most of the work I have done in my main practice I do super last minute. The name, “Pointless Show,” we were looking online. We saw there was a “Pointless Game” in Britain as a BBC program, so we select that as having that irony of the name and the game itself CN: And identity.

AF: I think the last minute thing was super important for this show. Everything was fast. Its like a side project. But I had a good time doing it. I painted [the map] after years [of not painting]. We went to Chinatown.

CN: We got these really awesome masks but we didn’t show them.

PLAySPACE: Could you tell us more about your research and you process of finding and choosing objects?

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