Studio Fontana

Running String (2018)


What

An alternative team sport game where the ball is replaced by a coil of yarn.

Why

The game gives a certain agency to the ball which becomes an autonomous object on the field, the deciding factor in the temporality of the game. Once the yarn is completely unwound, the game is over.

How

The players are throwing a ball of yarn between each other. It rolls on the floor, it leaps from hand to hand, and all the while drawing a graph of the different interactions. In this situation, the ball becomes a sociogram, where the unwinding string maps the action of the players, revealing the different teams. Unlike a conventional ball, yarn follows its own logic by flying in an unexpected direction depending on the tension of the string.


Selected workshops

TOURNAMENT OF THE UNKNOWN - TURNING TOWARDS FLUIDITY
Solo Show. Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam (NL), October 2021.

WORKSHOPS IN PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Comenius College, Obs Dakpark school, (NL), 2019-2020

QFCPSSBBXOXO:
Trainings for the Not-Yet, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL), November 2019.

QUEER SPORTS
Designers & Hackers Academy,
Amsterdam (NL), August 2019.

QUEERING NOT JUST THE
BODIES BUT THE GAME ITSELF
Willem De Kooning Academie, Rotterdam (NL), April 2019.

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), March 2019.

POWER GAMES
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL), October 2018.

A TEAM WITHOUT NAME
Urban Playground Festival, Hasselt (BE), April 2017.


  • Players in action, Running String game, Eindhoven, 2021.
  • Trouble spot, Running String game, Eindhoven, 2021.
  • First goal, Running String game, Eindhoven, 2021.
  • Running String game, Eindhoven, 2021.