By reinventing the normal pitch shape for the world’s most popular sport, Veronika Tzekova takes a new look at football. Although the rules remain the same, the complexity of the game increases, and at the same time, there are new opportunities, with two new goal-lines and three times more chances to score goals. The teams for this strange football-based performance will come from various local authorities, associations and groups of Rennes residents for a match that will be strange and new, both for the crowd and the players. The challenge for the teams and referees will be to demonstrate on the pitch “an untapped social potential in the city”. The sporting context will question ideas of pop-up communities, tactics and opportunities, choices and social interactions and the place of the individual within society. The aim of the match is to generate new forms of communication and competition, and new relationships between different groups that are physically, politically, philosophically and socially separate.

FOOOOTBALLLL encourages us to see the game as a metaphor for life, blending the familiar with the strange, to create a fresh new vision. The work gives a nod to the “three-sided football” concept invented by Danish situationist artist Asger Jorn. Most of all, however, Veronika Tzekova is offering a fun opportunity to bring people together.