The Games People Play

Free
Special Project
Exhibition

Curated by
WEFT

Kala Academy
Plaza

14th December - 21st December
11:00 AM - 07:00 PM

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The Games People Play invites visitors into an immersive, participatory archive of ancient Indian board games, exploring their roles in strategy, morality, cosmology, and leisure. Reimagined through contemporary craft and scenography, games like Chaupar, Gyan Chaupar, Nav-kakdi, and Wagh Bakri come alive in a tactile, dynamic setting at the Kala Academy in Goa for the Serendipity Arts Festival.

The act of playing is also the opportunity of celebrating craft skills from across India. All the elements of the board games will be re-presented, using traditional materials and processes.

Far from passive observers, visitors become active players, engaging with the interplay of mythology, mathematics, and modern craft and design. The exhibition dissolves boundaries between craft installation, traditional games, and the act of play; reinterpreting play’s role in civic and cultural life. These games, historically, have been spaces for negotiating fate and choice, ethics and ambition, chance and consequence.

Presented by WEFT Foundation, this collaborative project merges traditional knowledge with innovative craft. Through curation, performance, and installation, The Games People Play offers a poetic exploration of time, rules, and the human pursuit of transcendence through play.

About WEFT Foundation

Established in 2019 in India by Harsh Bhavsar and Arthur Duff, WEFT Foundation fosters connections between ideas and individuals worldwide. The Foundation champions art and ideas through diverse expressions, partnering with cultural and educational institutions, artists, gallerists, and collectors. WEFT specialises in curation, exhibition design, documentation, research, conservation, storage, collection management, and publications, delivering innovative solutions that benefit collaborators and clients across projects of varying scale and complexity.

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