This manual offers a space where together, by following (or perhaps not following) suggestions, we can take a moment to explore the possibilities of sound and communal creating with joy.

This project is aligned with the values we try to uphold within our collective, where our aim is to always try to create safer spaces and non-hierarchical structures that help and support us in our lives and personal practices. For this reason, Zeynab Gueye, Faolán McGowan, and Dora Rodriguez from Trigger Collective have created a Manual for Collective Play. We are inspired by old folkloric practices that treat art as communal craft (rather than art for art’s sake) and by the idea of a creative playground. Looking at the world today, we are strongly aware of the fact that art as we know it and art as an institution cannot continue in the well-trodden tracks of contemporary tradition. There is a pressure on us as people within our respective occupations to create and to produce—both constantly and without the opportunity to experiment and to explore for the sake of joy alone. It can be a solitary, lonely task. The manual aims to tear us away from the expectations and demands placed upon us and to create a space where together, through following (or maybe not following) suggestions, we can take a moment to be silly and to explore the possibilities of sound and communal making with joy. For Montag Modus, they introduced an online beta of the manual, which presented an opportunity to interact with virtual space in a different way than what we are used to.

2020, Web-based interactive work 

PLAY HERE: https://trigger-archive.com/index.html

Presented at Ecology of Attention #3: Listening out Loud

Manual for Collective Play was realized in collaboration with Y events supported by the Czech-German Future Fund