We know that chess has that, and billiards has that. Games, because they have this reference, are expressions of how we believe the universe works in different cultures. OROZCO: It’s not that it’s wrong, it’s just that. Ping-pong is a game about the universe playing, or is a game about how the universe is so arbitrary and how it’s constant.ĪRT21: Is the lotus a symbol in this work? Or is it wrong to think of it that way, of it having a specific cultural meaning? I think every game is a universe, in a way, or every game is an expression of how the universe works for different cultures. It’s a new space for a new way of playing with the universe, which is this game. If you want to think in a metaphorical sense, of the lotus flower as the beginning of the universe, I think you can do that because it’s a new game. I liked the idea of the pond and the lotus. It’s round because you have to move waiting for the bounce from three different tables, you have to move much more than in a normal ping-pong table. But then I liked the idea because the shape of the table has to be round. I could decide to make anything I wanted. And that’s why I decided to make the pond. I opened that border, and it became tri-dimensional, a space in itself. So, in this case, it’s the net, the limit, and the border between two spaces. We can connect with it and make it happen as a space and time in between things. To activate that space-to activate means to fill it with meaning and connections, so that we can think about it. Even in photographs, I think what is interesting is in between the photographer and the space, which is the same as the in-between of the photograph and the spectator. That is the space that I’m interested in, the in-between space. And I have a tri-dimensional space now, in between four spaces. In this case, I opened the ping-pong-the net, that space in between two spaces-I opened it up.
I’m thinking in a new game, when I multiply by four the knights in the chessboard, or when I made the pendulum and the billiard table. And what you have there is a new space because it didn’t exist before. You open that space so the net is also open. But when you multiply that space by four, instead of two people playing, you have four people playing in four tables. When you have a normal ping-pong game, you have a net, which is enough space between two spaces. OROZCO: The Ping Pond Table is connected to this idea of a new space, a new possible space. Gabriel Orozco discusses his artworks that play on various types of games, and how those works relate to underlying theoretical concepts.ĪRT21: Ping Pond Table-where did the idea for that work come from?
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