Game·Play, Goethe-Institut Beijing

中国北京，2025年

剧场，表演，角色扮演，参与式

由歌德学院上海和北京支持

项目以“艺术生态”为核心，通过角色扮演与剧场机制，将社会协商结构引入现场实践。作品呈现艺术系统中不同功能角色的运作方式，并回应当下中国语境中，个体创作与制度结构、公共价值与文化表达之间的张力。

现场不存在旁观者。所有参与者被置入不同角色，包括艺术家、艺术协会、艺术机构、观众等，在游戏机制与即兴参与的推动下自由选择、博弈、合作，推动艺术系统的叙事展开。该作品关注在被压缩的处境里，如何创造一个平行的空间，个体如何行动，以及系统如何被不断重写。

Beijing, China, 2025

Theatre, performance, role play, participatory

With support from Goethe-Institut Beijing and Shanghai

Centered on the concept of an art ecosystem, the project introduces structures of social negotiation into live practice through asymmetrical theatrical protocols. The work reveals how different functional roles operate within the art system, and responds to the tensions present in the contemporary Chinese context, between individual artistic practice and institutional structures, and between public value and individual expression.

There are no audiences on site. All participants are placed into distinct roles, including artists, art association, art bureau, art institution, business, media, and spectators. Crucially, to re-enact the historical trajectory and state-centric reality, Bolun designed a staggered entry mechanism. Official and institutional roles are given more resources to establish the rules, while the public arrive later, forced to navigate a pre-existing power structure. Through role play mechanics, power dynamics and improvised participation, they are free to choose, negotiate, compete, and collaborate, collectively advancing the narrative of the art system. The project explores how, within compressed and constrained conditions, a parallel space can be created, how individuals act within it, and how systems are continuously rewritten.