Chloé Gourvennec

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Front-space, week 15 2025

Chloé Gourvennec

she/her

French, 2000

@gourvei

Thesis: Hallway pedagogy

Set of Rules

The game is played with two or more players.

Letters can be placed and moved. Anyone can join at any time, but no one may play twice in a row.

The game begins in an agreed-upon area.

It is played in silence. In case of misunderstanding, a player may signal (stop) and speak briefly. Silence then resumes.

New rules are added as the game unfolds. Each player is responsible for paying attention to previous moves and responding to the space accordingly.

This work is deeply inspired by choreographer João Fiadeiro’s practice of Real Time Composition, a method for exploring collective decision-making in contemporary dance, using improvisation and composition as research fields. This interpretation integrates language by turning the letters of the Latin alphabet into game pieces. The book documents the research that led to its current form, including a discussion with the visual artist and teacher Uta Eisenreich. The accompanying performance explores the game’s spatial and compositional possibilities within the Gym.

This game was played twice at the Graduation Show 2025 and is intended to travel and evolve in other contexts.

_Merci,
_{Rasha Dakkak & Felix Salut,}
_{for mentoring with generosity.}
_{Elisabeth Klement & Floor Koomen,}
_{for advising.}
_{Clara Amaral,}
_{for guiding in the imagination of new settings.}
_{Parsa Adibi, Anja Aurand, Elsa Baslé, Ivo Blackwood, Jack Carlyle, Esmée Desjardin, Enzy Jhang, Velko Kalchev, Chiara Lacoste, Mila Landreau, Andie Lee, Manu Linder, Matthew Oxley, Akina Renard, Moritz Schottmüller, Santiago Saizu, Maren Weertman,}
_{for playing.}
_{Ivo Blackwood,}
_{for proofreading and helping editing.}
_{Joana de Sá,}
_{for trusting me to play your sound piece Disembodied Paths (2023) in the Gym during the sessions.}
_{Uta Eisenreich,}
_{for generously sharing.}
_{BB team (Bookbinding Workshop) Gerrit Rietveld Academie,}
_{for supporting and providing the paper.}
_{Wood workshop and CADCAM workshop,}
_{for having helped to produce, in joy and in music.}
_{Aron Wildschut & Élise Ory,}
_{for helping painting and building.}
_{Alexandru Balgiu,}
_{for instilling the enthusiasm.}