7/9/2005
Tatianatoi
4US library, Tirana
Tatiana, Nino, Unz. The project was born with the purpose to create ludic products using an experience formed in the world of the image and communication, in order to insert in a context of production and commerce, abnormal shapes and means. The interest is to analyze the player in relationship with the toy, starting from the concept that the game is the way with which the man put himself in relationship with the world.
Tatiana – Nino – Unz
08 september h.20.00, 4US library, Shallvaret Square, Tirana.
1/60 insurgent space is the name of a space that move itself continuously inside the cities, producing exhibitions whose intent is to put to comparison international artists with various places, different from the "institutional ones", in order to create new arguments around the art and its borders. This is the sixth of a series of nine exhibitions programmed in Tirana, from January until September, curated every month by Stefano Romano and a different curator each time.
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"All the games and all the amusements of the children must be directed to form good and useful habits, otherwise they will be the cause of those bad ones."
John Locke (1632 - 1704)
The project TATIANATOI was born in 2001 with the purpose to create ludic products using an experience formed in the world of the image and communication, in order to insert in a context of production and commerce, abnormal shapes and means, usually not utilized in the toy world. The purpose is to open the production to a different target, to create products also for adults using a more ample baggage of means instead of the ones used for a normal toy with educational purposes. The interest is to analyze the player in relationship with the toy, starting from the concept, that the game is the way with which the man put himself in relationship with the world in order to assimilate it and understand it, and at the same time to open himself to it.
The project TATIANATOI have worked for two years in the ideation of systems, structures and shapes that went to touch ambiguous and unclassifiable channels that did not contain ethical, political or social judgments, instead of the normal development of the educational games in commerce.
The project is based on a constant relationship with the customer in order to avoid fixed rules, and to be constantly open to the exchange between game and player. The products are evolved in the time analyzing people reactions, judgments and considerations, as a fundamental part of the job, that always tries to keep itself on an instinctive and unconscious level, to succeed to freedom and mental integrity.
The collaboration between Tatiana and Nino, has product a series of table games still in experimental phase, that the 1.60insurgent space project bring to Tirana.
The idea is to bring the products and the name TATIANATOI in different cities of the so called “peripherical areas†of the world, in order to accumulate exchanges and information. Another important element in the presentation of the games is the place, in order to create multimedial rooms that allows to the player a bigger abstraction. In these ludic rooms the sound, entrusted to the artist Unz, acquires a fundamental importance.
The Soviet psychologist L. S. Vygotskij said: "the development of the thought is determined from the language, that is from the linguistics instruments of the thought and of the socio-cultural experience". The TATIANATOI attempt is to create a new type of language, in order to observe the thought that is generated from it.
[the Direction]
Produced by: 1/60 insurgent space
Input director, curator: Stefano Romano – sr_inbox@yahoo.com
Coordination of the exhibitions: Edi Muka
Image: TATIANATOI
4US library, Shallvaret Square, Tirana