Francis Alÿs

Many of us played this as kids, spinning on the spot until collapsing. In a group there’s a competitive element, each tries to be the last one ...

Children getting into a frightful mess that only parents could sort out: this familiar scenario plays out subversively, for the rescuing ‘Mother’ ...

Each couple tries to save an orange from gravity. When it falls, the pair is eliminated. This exercise in collaboration involves intimacy: faces ...

The most basic sense of fun improvises on chance gifts of the environment. Snow-fun is too immediate to need rules, either. One game suggests ...

Why do all the bottle tops start the same way up, grouped together, if there are two teams? When is the ball launched with a plank and when by ...