Kyle Peets
THE BIG GAME, Kyle Peets and PlatteForum’s ArtLab Interns, performance, 2017
Kyle Peets, Ashland, OR | Performance and Conceptual Installation
Residency dates: June 5th - July 27th, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 27th, 6PM
Pre-game activities | 6:30
Kick-Off!Location: PlatteForum, 2400 Curtis St, Denver 80205
THE BIG GAME is a collaborative performance created from a fictional premise: it’s the year 2117 and the world has all but been destroyed by capitalist-fed greed and violence. Kyle Peets and the ArtLab interns belong to a group of activists who have recently discovered an underground repository of athletic gear as well as a tattered book on the history of sports. Obligated by a sense of duty to the new world, this team re-introduces their findings to our frail culture by inventing a new sport. In this new sport, it is the activist-athletes who work to take a stand against inequality and oppression.
THE BIG GAME, at 6pm on July 27th, will be the performance of this new sport accompanied by all the accoutrements of a good spectacle; loud music, show lighting, food vendors, merchandise tables and screaming die-hard fans.
During the summer-long session to create THE BIG GAME, Kyle Peets and the ArtLab interns created a companion exhibition called, TRAINING CAMP, which serves as a functional gym, library, zine factory, think tank, and empathy center to train our minds and bodies for THE BIG GAME.
About the Artist
As both a performance and conceptual installation artist from Ashland, Oregon, Kyle Peets’ work is centered on the narratives we create to cope when feeling small in the face of things that are bigger than us, with the assumption that in many cases our narratives are implicated in some type of belief system that informs the way we move through the world. Peets uses mischief and the uncanny to tilt those systems of knowledge, and poke holes in their logic to reveal the fragility of these systems and how breaking them can allow us to re-imagine our place in the world.
This immersive experience will be free and open to the public, and is supported through a generous partnership with OZ Architecture.
