Two and a half years ago, a very good friend of mine (Bart Wildeman, theatre- maker, moralist and entrepreneur) and I had many philosophical talks over too much coffee.
It was an exchange of visions about life, society, poetry, spirituallity and art in all it"s guises.
In no time our ' coffee-for-two ' became a coffee party. More and more like-minded people came to answer the call. 
But anyway, from one moment to another it became a group happen where everyone participated enthusiastic and contributed in his or her own way.
An experiment became an intense adventure and forged ties for life .
I 've made a quick sketch, where I tried to capture and visualize the first principle declaration... Playfully!
Later, guidelines were enumerated by the whole group, we used as game rules.
MANI FEST (by PLAY collective)
1) The game is OPEN SOURCE: if you touch me, you will be touched by others.
2) The more you play this game, the more you will get involved.
3) Failure is a gift: get your mind as open as you can.
4) It‘s about as serious as you want to take it, nothing less, nothing more.
5) To really understand what this game is all about you have to play it all the way through.
6) Special moments with special rules: we call it ‘concepts’ in which anything is possible.
7) We ‘ve got ourselves a place where we do it: the world is our playground.
8) Limit yourself!
9) Be the spectator, be the player and most of all, BE THE GAME!
10) Go all the way, then go even further and beyond.
11) It's a rule that you don't have to obey the rules!
12) Each good rule makes it self abundant, the moment the game is played. the rule is becoming inherent/evident, so that it 's not something artificial anymore but something from the inside, something organic: a necessity, in one unity with the game,... and the pleasure you feel with it, is what's all about.
13) Don't hate the player, game the hate!
14) To play' asks full devotion. Therefore, forget who you are or would like to be. Lose yourself -in the moment-.
15) Find out what you're good at and limit it in your work in progress.
16) The only constant is that the rules and the game always change.
17) Kill your darlings: find out what you're good at and limit your use of it in the creative progress.
18) Add you own rules, it makes this game more real and true.
"Work PLAY!" is the play title and the frame of mind in which everything is possible, but nothing must; where the result is completely subordinate to the process, because that is what really counts! Even so the medium, the research field and/of disciplines are of minor importance than that what you practice or search for with passion. Back to the child that discovers the world by playing... for life and for death! Being an adult, it's necessary to rediscover the playing and to play back, for life and for death.
The only necessity is that we let go of everything we think, know and feel; to find out at the spot what the possibilities are and start our exploration (together) from there.
The what and how don't matter. Passion and intensity do! Because playing is a serious matter...
Working along this preconceived discourse we have nothing to lose, none of us. The only thing we have to do is ACT, because acting makes visible. And as we are not searching for any results, failing can be reversed into succeeding.
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Anyhow, one of the games we played, within the closed group on facebook, is this...
(Look first, I'll explain later)
Chris Van Wassenhove ( Romaan Namoor)
Chris Van Wassenhove (Romaan Namoor)
Ignace Parmentier
Ignace Parmentier
Ignace Parmentier
Ignace Parmentier
Chris Van Wassenhove (Romaan Namoor)
Omar Bouguerra
Roland Thiberge
Ignace Parmentier
Bart Gielen
Ignace Parmentier
As simple as it looks!
Someone loads an image, an other one download, edits and re- upload it. And so on ...
If you're actively involved, your always getting stimulated and challenged by the following upload. Because there were always multiple images in the running, so you'll get encouraged from all sides.
And hey, we were just playing but look what amazing results it gives.
I call this art with a lot of humour.
To make and to experience!
But, could it also work on steemit... I really wanna know. So, I uploaded one of my analoge collages (Picture below), asking myself if I can challenge somebody to start this PLAY?
I uploaded this basic picture a little larger, so you can take a screenshot to edit, if you want. As far as I know we still can't download images from steemit, but fortunately for us we don't have to play on high quality. ;)
Really curious for the reactions!
SO anyone?
Warm regards,
romaan-namoor
#art #workplay #romaannamoor