Play On Tiles

Play on Tiles projects the grounds of the original Ragdale Ring into a new and dynamic landscape, elevating everyone—audience and artist alike—onto center stage. The redefined ground plane becomes an experimental platform for challenging conventional audience-performer relationships and offering a unique reciprocity between user and space. The installation invites artists to consider not only how the space responds to their performances but how the object can in turn influence their work. Play on Tiles equates audience and performer and creates a unified and diversified field of activated space—one of spectacle, repose, innovation, and artistic collaboration. The scale of the installation and types of performances—from large musical concerts and plays, to dance recitals and spoken word—are determined by the artist and users. All or some of the tiles can be used at any given time and in any configuration. It is my hope that this playful proposal promotes a two-way relationship between the architecture and the artist, whereby the flexibility of the system can engage creative individuals to design a space that both fuels and responds to their innovative potential.

Play on Tiles deploys the Truchet Tile as a governing geometry for a reconfigurable architectural space.

2020