CLASS WARGAMES ON CAMPAIGN

Class Wargames’ campaign of ludic subversion has been waged across three continents and at many different venues. To view photos and find out more information about these engagements, click on the listings below.

To access the list of games chronicled in Class Wargames: ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism, click here.

Exhibitions

• The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London, England, 9th April–26th May 2008.
• The Game of War Weekend, HTTP Gallery, London, England, 26th September–20th October 2009.
• Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Institute of Contemporary Interactive Art, University of Bath, Bath, England, 19th January–26th February 2011.
• Tomorrow Never Dies – European Cultural Congress, Design Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland, 8th–11th September 2011.
• Games People Play, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon Forest Park, Exeter, England, 6th April–30th September 2012.
• Invisible Forces, Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, England, 16th June–11th August 2012.
• FIELDS, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Latvian National Arts Museum, Latvia, 15th May–3rd August 2014.
• Class Wargames – The Game of War, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22nd April–9th May 2015.

Performances

• 23rd October 2007 – London Games Festival Fringe, 01zero-one, London, England.
• 19th April 2008 – Salute ’08, Excel Centre, London, England.
• 26th April 2008 – The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, London, England.
• 10th May 2008 – 1968 & All That, Conway Hall, London, England.
• 31st October 2008 – Cold War Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.
• 27th November 2008 – Cyberfest 2008, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 20th April 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 29th April 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Café com Letras, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• 25th July 2009 – Summer of Discontent, Plan 9, Bristol, England.
• 26th–27th September 2009 – The Game of War Weekend, HTTP Gallery, London, England.
• 10th October 2009 – Crash/Crush Festival 2009, Bed Elze Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands.
• 27th October 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Department of Media & Communications, University of Middlesex, London, England.
• 8th November 2009 – Market Forces: Share International Festival of Arts and Digital Culture, Turin, Italy.
• 14th November 2009 – Wunderbar Festival, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England.
• 14th November 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia.
• 28th November 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Yugoslav Workers’ Club, Lokativ, Vienna, Austria.
• 19th December 2009 – Resonance FM’s Media Playground, The Foundry, London, England.
• 27th January 2010 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 7th February 2010 – Transmediale 10, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
• 16th February 2010 – Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London, England.
• 7th March 2010 – Gender & Politics Free School, London Free School, London, England.
• 21st March 2010 – Skill Share Bazaars of Haringey, Tottenham Chances, London, England.
• 14th May 2010 – Birkbeck Debord Reading Group, Birkbeck College, London, England.
• 30th July 2010 – Parque del Sol 10, St. Pölten, Austria.
• 18th September 2010 – H.G. Wells Festival, Folkestone, England.
• 13th October 2010 – What Is To Be Done? The Urgent Need to Struggle, ICA, London, England.
• 28th November 2010 – The Futurological Congress, Center for the History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine.
• 9th January 2011 – Artists’ Talk and ‘The Game of War’ Participatory Performance, Institute of Contemporary Interactive Art, Bath, England.
• 26th February 2011 – Participatory Re-performance of H.G. Wells’ ‘Little Wars’, Institute of Contemporary Interactive Art, Bath, England.
• 19th June 2011 – Virtual Futures 2.0, University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
• 25th June 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets Vasily Chapayev, Vse Svobodny Bookstore and Literary Club, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2nd July 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets Takako Saito’s ‘Liquor Chess’, Tsiolkovsky Bookstore, State Polytechnical Museum, Moscow, Russia.
• 27th July 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets ‘Chapayev and Void’, Galereya Revolutsija, Irkutsk, Russia.
• 24th August 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets McKenzie Wark’s ‘Beach Beneath the Streets’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 2nd December 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets Takako Saito’s ‘Liquor Chess’, Raylab, London, England.
• 8th–9th June 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Live-Art-Festival: Postspectaculism, Hamburg, Germany.
• 23rd June 2012 – Class Wargames Picnic & Subversion: Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Furtherfield Gallery, London, England.
• 30th June 2012 – Class Wargames Picnic & Subversion: 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s ‘Commands & Colors: Napoleonics’, Furtherfield Gallery, London, England.
• 18th August 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, England.
• 19th August 2012 – H.G. Wells’ ‘Little Wars’, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, England.
• 28th October 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 31st October 2012 – 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s ‘Commands & Colors: Napoleonics’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 12th December 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 24th March 2013 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Cowley Club, Brighton, England.
• 13th April 2013 – The Life & Legacy of C.L.R. James, WEA London Region, London, England.
• 23rd April 2013 – Playgrounds of Insubordination, Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• 30th November 2013 – Spielsalon 2013, Kunsthalle Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany.
• 4th June 2014 – Cybersalon – The Critical Play Of Serious Games, Quartier 21, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna, Austria.
• 5th June 2014 – Schutzbund 1934 @ Crossbreeds 2014, Traditionscafé Industrie, Vienna, Austria.
• 6th June 2014 – Class Wargames Präsentiert Guy Debords Kriegspiel, BOEM Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
• 24th October 2014 – Class Wargames book launch party, Red Gallery, London, England.
• 11th December 2014 – COBRA 1.4-1.5-1.6 launch party, a/political, London, England.
• 22nd December 2014 – Class Wargames Winter Solstice, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 3rd February 2015 – Class Wargames book talk, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London, England.
• 22nd April 2015 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 29th April 2015 – Tyranny of the Creator: HACK/PLAY, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 13th May 2015 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, England.
• 20th January 2016 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, PLANK: the blog for the Politically Led Art & Networked Knowledge, The Common House, London, England.

Ludic Science Club

FleaPit, London, England

• 22nd July 2008 – The Game of War and War on Terror.
• 19th August 2008 – Napoleon’s Triumph.
• 3rd March 2009 – Crunch.
• 17th March 2009 – Red Guard.
• 7th April 2009 – Comrade Koba and Red Guard.
• 9th June 2009 – The Game of War.
• 23rd June 2009 – The Game of War and Comrade Koba.
• 21st July 2009 – Schutzbund 1934.
• 4th August 2009 – Schutzbund 1934.
• 18th August 2009 – Schutzbund 1934 and Comrade Koba.
• 8th September 2009 – Schutzbund 1934.

Firebox, London, England

• 3rd March 2013 – Liberté.
• 7th April 2013 – Chicago-Chicago.
• 5th May 2013 – Election.
• 2nd June 2013 – Civilisation.

Furtherfield Gallery, London, England

• 2nd March 2014 – 1812 Crossing the Berezina scenario for Commands & Colors: Napoleonics.
• 4th May 2014 – Apokalypse 1945.
• 1st June 2014 – Russian Civil War 1918-1922.

UCLU George Farha Cafe Bar, London, England

• 5th June 2015 – Spartacus scenario for Commands & Colors: Ancients.
• 19th June 2015 – Waterloo scenario for Commands & Colors: Napoleonics.
• 3rd July 2015 – Battle of Warsaw scenario for Strike of the Eagle.
• 17th July 2015 – Battle of Nieman River scenario for Strike of the Eagle.
• 14th August 2015 – Canadian Civil War.
• 30th October 2015 – Decline and Fall.

Training Sessions

• 4th September 2007 – Willesden Green, London, England.
• 12th October 2007 – Occupation Studios, London, England.
• 9th November 2007 – Occupation Studios, London, England.