Fage Not Pound

Introduction

Fage not Pound (FNP) was a temporary bar where visitors were invited to actively reflect upon the blurred boundary between leisure and labour. FNP was itself hosted by Page not Found (PNF), an art book shop in Den Haag (The Netherlands). Fage not Pound opened on the 25th of March 2022 from 18:00 to 21:00 (UTC +1) but its existence lasted much longer in AccAcc (FNP's local time unit). Fage not Pound was imagined to host the official launch of This Box Found You For A Reason (Special Issue #17) a publication by XPUB1. [elaborate/link]

History

Open letter to Ourselves

The letter itself?
Before launching the bar and the publication, XPUB1 2021 already worked on the Special Issue (Special Issue 16 - Learning How to Walk While Catwalking) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. On the 2nd March 2022, while working on Special Issue 17, XPUB1 2021 wrote a letter to themselves as a reminder of --. This letter was intended to focus on ---. In searching for the healthy way of working together ---.

25th March 2022

Launching of "This box found you for a reason"
1. Invitation text

A promotional flyer desgined by Emma Prato

Description of the event (retrospective narration)

Flow chart
Sepp's talk
The "Big Reveal"

Timeline of the event (which is the schedule)

Program	Time	Notes
Opening	18:00 (UTC+1) --:-- (AccAcc)	---
A talk by Platform BK (Sepp Eckenhaussen & Koen Bartijn)	19:00 - 20:00 (UTC+1) --:-- (AccAcc)	--- / maybe a link of the talk & recordings
Big Reveal	20:00 (UTC+1) --:-- (AccAcc)	---
Closing	21:00 (UTC+1) --:-- (AccAcc)	Example

Navigation of the space

Fage not Pound is organised as a loop with separate, yet neighbouring, entrance and exit doors. To navigate the space, visitors are offered to follow a flowchart (on floor signage). [add pictures of signage]
After passing the entrance door, the first question occurs: "Do you have time?". When visitors answer 'YES', they are redirected to the main room and become players. In the case they say no, they are invited to follow the "short track" and are redirected to the private booth.

         "Do you have time?"
              /    \
            YES     NO
            /        \
           /  (redirected to 'short track')  
          / 
  "Do you want to pause?"
        /          \
      YES           NO
      /              \
(redirected     (redirected to main room)
to bathroom)
                          "Do you want to exit?"
                                /      \
                              YES       NO 
                              /          \
               (redirected to exit)  (redirected to main room)
 

Short track

As a visitor with limited time, it is possible to have a glimpse of "This box found you for a reason" in a private booth located right after the entrance of Fage not Pound. The space is available for individual experience at anytime before the scheduled launch of the publication, after consultation, it is possible to purchase the item.
If time suddenly allows the visitor, it is always possible to join the long track after having experienced the short track.
Any publication sold before the official launch time will be sealed in an opaque bag.

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Long track

A visitor with enough time goes through the long track. First, the visitor presses the button and become a player. A player

Flow chart questionnaire
Entering
Short track
Long track
Exiting

Artifacts

The Welcome Leaflet

What is its concept, content, purpose, how is it used.

AccAcc, Fage not Pound's variable time unit

Accumulate Accelerate or AccAcc is a variable time unit synchronising the activities at Fage not Pound. The duration of a (1) AccAcc is directly influenced by the amount of visitor present in the space and gauged by a traffic counter at the entrance.
When the space is empty, the time unit is considered "dormant" and therefore called "AccAccDull". By default, an (1) AccAccDull equals one (1) second (the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI)).
An AccAccDull becomes an AccAcc at the moment of its activation. The said activation happens when a person enters the space and presses the button. Each time a visitor enters, the AccAcc's value is divided by 1,1. Thus, as the space gets crowded, the span of an AccAcc decreases exponentially, allowing time to pass faster.
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[video of projected AccAcc]
Fage not Pound's program, expressed in AccAccs, is directly influenced by the amount of visitors, events are most likely to take place earlier when the space gets crowded.

The bar/ the crossword

1. Short history, intention, purpose
FNP was said to inspire others who experience the blurred boundary between labour and leisure or work in the field of art and publication industries to reflect on their experiences. Especially in the cultural industry, a bar or the launch event is where people not only ----. a Productive Play Environment.

2. How does it work?

"This Box Found You For A Reason"

1. Short history (context)
2. The content (letter or intro?)
3. The teams (work division/methods)/ Colophon
4. The box itself (Link to team 2' wiki page?)
5. The price explained / (LATER / an image of the price sticker as well)
Cost of production in detail
Cost of labour in detail
% to PNF
% to XPUB
Benefit? Yes/no why?
Cost of the LB in euros

Gallery

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See Also

• Glossary of productive play
• https://issue.xpub.nl/17

Colofon

Page Not Found and XPUB, Supisara Burapachaisri, Mitsa Chaida, Kimberley Cosmilla, Erica Gargaglione, Carmen Gray, Jian Haake, Chaeyoung Kim, Francesco Luzzana, Ål Nik (Alexandra Nikolova), Lídia Pereira (ed.), Emma Prato, Gersande Schellinx and Miriam Schöb.