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REJECTEFFECT invites you to participate in our upcoming interactive project titled "PLAY". We are asking you to donate a toy of your choice which will be exhibited in a space to be played with. We will accept any type of toy(s), especially ones you enjoyed playing with as a young child or toys that have some form of motion/movement and/or sound. The name of each person who donates a toy will be listed at the opening of the project and after the exhibition the toys will be donated to a women's and children's shelter located in Mt. Clemens, MI. Another way to participate is to visit the exhibition and enjoy how it feels to play. Please check back for specific date and venue, though we will be continuously accepting toy donations up until the week of the exhibition. We are currently accepting toy donations. Please send donations to: RejectEffect 13349 Kingston Huntington Woods, MI 48070 Having a good time has always been a philosophy of RejectEffect. It seems almost all of us should experience play much more often.
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-Hara Estroff Marano, *Psychology Today Magazine,* 2006 "We believe that play's value among adults is to often vastly underrated. We would all agree that play lifts stress from us. It refreshes us and recharges us. It restores our optimism. It changes our perspective, stimulating creativity. It renews our ability to accomplish the work of the world. By anyone's reckoning, those are remarkably worthy achievements. But there is also evidence that play does much more. It may in fact be the highest expression of our humanity, both imitating and advancing the evolutionary process. Play appears to allow our brains to exercise their very flexibility, to maintain and even perhaps renew the neural connections that embody our human potential to adapt, to meet any possible set of environmental conditions. It can truly be said that we are made for play; after all, humans are among the very few animals that play as adults. What the evidence adds up to is this: we are most human when we play-and just because we play." Check out another interesting link: http://www.nifplay.org/
"The role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real" - Nicolas Bourriaud
Additional information about the project will be coming soon. Email rejecteffect@gmail.com with any questions. |
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