A board game and a communal ritual conceived by artist Angelo Plessas to explore self-made sacred spaces and inter-species connections.
Discover The House of All Beings, a communal ritual exploring self-made sacred spaces and interspecies connections. Play The Game of All Beings and embark on a transformative journey of interconnection and self-discovery.
Conceived by Angelo Plessas, The House of All Beings gathered artists Eleni Bagaki, Aslı Çavuşoğlu,
Alex Cecchetti, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Angelo Plessas, and writer/curator Filipa Ramos at the Moulin des Ribes, amidst olive groves, lavender fields, and beehives, for a residency hosted by collector Silvia Fiorucci and La Società delle Api. In this unique setting, where subtle energies intertwine between human and non-human life, Plessas was inspired to create The Game of All Beings, an experimental board game meant to share and continue this experience of togetherness.
Embody one of six Beings—Atom, Animal, Extraterrestrial, Human, Plant, Machine—and face unique challenges; grapple with metaphysical questions, ecological dilemmas, and practical problem-solving. Share stories, confessions, and creative fabulations. Become part of The House of All Beings.
The book, co-published with La Società delle Api, showcases the artists' contributions and features instructions for playing The Game of All Beings.
Net artist Angelo Plessas (born 1974 in Athens, where he lives and works) makes internet psychogeography. He names places on the web and makes interactive portraits of his friends or other versions of himself (MeLookingAtYou.com, 2001, www.plagueoffantasy.com 2010). He makes places where people can meet offline (
Monument to Internet Hook-ups, 2009) and he organizes situations with internet friends in remote locations (“The Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood”, 2012-ongoing). Sometimes Plessas' websites pretend to be monuments in real cities (Every Website is a Monument, Milan 2010, Mexico City 2011, London 2012). He also registered his own foundation, The Angelo Foundation, which he uses as a vehicle for
educational meditational participatory setting like the “Temple Of Play” (Frieze Projects 2013), “School of Music” (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens 2011). Other times the foundation hosts performative works, like the auto-complete theatrical play “Fantasy Plot Generator” where actors recite dialogues produced by a web software fed character names by internet users. All these works are more or less based on the social lessons that the internet has taught us: you can say anything, be anyone, meet everybody. Nobody will know what color you are, how old you are, or if you are in fact a human or a bot. Angelo Plessas' work revolves around these issues of internet freedom and online personality that evolves through social media. In between all the social happenings, he keeps making the websites that started his art practice in 2000. They are in a way sketches for online personas, and their single domain-name titles make them unique internet objects.
