Witness the members of experimental music trio Bucket List play the performance art board game Information Hazard.
Co-presented by Roar Shack Live!
The premise of the game is that Roko, a leader of future beings, has instructed Bucket List to construct and play this game to save humanity. Bucket List members are the three players: two opponents and a referee. The rule book is elaborate, fastidious, and often nonsensical. At times the opponents switch sides, thereby confounding the conventional notion of competition. The scoring system is arcane and perplexingly dynamic. Transgressions result first in penalties, but then in gifts. Sometimes dice are rolled, sometimes they are stacked. Hats can be exchanged. Game pieces can be eaten. All three players must execute absurd but tightly coordinated rhythms and gestures. The game seems incredibly irrational. But, as Bucket List says, “The more we play it, the more it makes sense.”
“I am grateful to my colleagues in our trio Bucket List for taking on the project of learning and playing this esoteric and tremendously difficult game. It may easily be the most or least valuable enterprise ever undertaken.” — Mark Applebaum, composer
Bucket List will play Information Hazard from 4 to 8 p.m. with occasional breaks. Visitors are invited to stay for a few minutes or watch the game unfold over several hours.
This performance was commissioned by the Roar Shack, a creative laboratory located in the heart of Mid-Market, San Francisco.