{"id":1171,"date":"2018-10-26T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2018-10-26T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:47:18","slug":"an-instructional-guide-to-awkward-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/26\/an-instructional-guide-to-awkward-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"An Instructional Guide to Awkward Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An Instructional Guide to Awkward Moments<\/em> is a booklet of short games about awkwardness and intimacy, designed for the Science Gallery in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/wishyouwerehere.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1176\" src=\"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/wishyouwerehere.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/wishyouwerehere.png 701w, https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/wishyouwerehere-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each game takes a different moment of a potential failed connection and turns it into something playable &#8211; whether that&#8217;s eye contact with people on the street, conversations with familiar strangers, a phone conversation with a lot of lag, people-watching through windows, scrolling through old text messages, or desperately signalling from the top of a tower in a terrible post-apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/windows2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1173\" src=\"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/windows2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/windows2.png 713w, https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/windows2-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of them can be played within the gallery itself, responding to the space and the other works in the show; some can be played in the space around it; some aren&#8217;t currently playable but might be in the future (few of us currently have an astronaut wife on Mars, for example).<\/p>\n<p><em>An Instructional Guide to Awkward Moments\u00a0<\/em>is part of\u00a0<em>Intimacy<\/em>,\u00a0running at <a href=\"https:\/\/dublin.sciencegallery.com\/\">Science Gallery Dublin<\/a>\u00a0until 24 February 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8259.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1175 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8259.jpg 624w, https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8259-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Instructional Guide to Awkward Moments is a booklet of short games about awkwardness and intimacy, designed for the Science Gallery in Dublin. 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