MINISTRY OF STRANGE AFFAIRS
The ministry of strange affairs is a participatory performance piece in the form of a story telling game especially designed to activate play within the adult audience.
This website serves as an interactive tool to tell the story.
You will find information on how to participate as well as what the participants (agents) have completed.
This project has been initiated for the academic research on adult play during the Masters in Art education at the Belas Artes faculty in Lisbon, PT.
Participants are thus also subjects of research and will be required to answer some questions. Nobody will be forced to do anything they don't want to.
I am Aurélie d'Incau and I am the artist who created this artwork. I plan, design and perform the Ministry of strange affairs. Besides this, I also conduct the research on adult playfulness.
Download the PDF description of the
Project here.
GOOD TO KNOW
8 play personalities
By Stuart Brown
💩 Joker
A Joker is a person who adores comedy and comic situations, they are often the people who make others laugh.
👩🏾🎨 Artist creator
The Artist creator is a personality that focuses on the creation of things, such as crafting, decorating, painting, cleaning...
🧝🏼♂️ Story teller
The story teller can be someone who either enjoys creating stories or who enjoys reading, seeing, hearing stories.
They are often interested in the lives of the characters of stories.
🎩 Director
The director is someone who likes to be in charge, who likes to organise and who likes to get things done. This can be a more typical theater play, but it can also be a dinner party, managing a company etc.
🚣🏼♂️ Kinesthete
A Kinesthete is someone who likes to challenge their body. This person likes to do bodily activities such as dancing, climbing, bunjy jumping.
🗺 Explorer
An Explorer explores, likes to find new places, whether that is in their own home or in the world. They are curious about the unknown and are open minded for other cultures.
🕰 Collector
A collector likes to collect, wether that is things or places, they might even have difficulties throwing anything away.
🏆 Competitor
A person with the competitor's personality is a person who likes to be challenged, to be in competition with others of with themselves.