About Day Of The Figurines

Day Of The Figurines is part board game, part secret society. The game is set in a fictional town that is littered, dark and underpinned with steady decay.

It lasts from midday on Thursday 25th June until 10pm on Saturday 17th June. Each day represents an hour in the life of a small English town that shifts from the mundane to the cataclysmic: Scandinavian metallists play a gig at the Locarno that goes horribly wrong as Middle Eastern troops invade the town from the west.

How you respond to these events and to each other creates and sustains a community during the course of three hours in the life of the town.

From the Gasometer to Product Barn, the Canal to the Rat Research Institute, up to 1,000 players roam the streets, defining yourselves through your interactions.

Day Of The Figurines continues Blast Theory’s enquiry into the nature of public participation within artworks and within electronic spaces.

It uses emergent behaviour and social dynamics as a means of structuring a live event. It invites players to establish their own codes of behaviour and morality within a parallel world. It plays on the tension between the intimacy and anonymity of text messages, building on previous projects such as Uncle Roy All Around You, I Like Frank and Can You See Me Now?

The version at Sonar is a test version. The finished game will last 24 days and be premiered in Berlin in September.