Project in development

100 people meet in an arena.

Among them: policemen, sex workers, religious leaders, students, farmers, humanitarian aid workers, babies, refugees, landlords, celebrities, sports teams, military personnel, artists and those who cannot be identified so easily.

Uprooted from their normal contexts, and meeting each other for the first time, together we will summon a sports spectacle where civilisations are shaped and destroyed over and over like a never-ending game.

Floodlights. Colossal screens. A camera to find you in the crowd.

Anthems. Mascots. The beat of a drum. The voice of a commentator shrieking and urgent.

This is a competition – each group inventing their visions of the world for the crowd.

Structures are built high, then collapsed, shattered or blown up by the next team.

A panorama of bodies, moving together, jostling for power and space. They arrive, and depart, carrying unspoken embodied histories, in choreographies both pedestrian, and gladiatorial.

Until eventually – breathtakingly – all the players must work together, bodies close and cooperative, to piece together a new monument for the collective. Will they succeed? Can this happen?

It’s some task, but this is the game.