“MejenGo” is an interactive sculpture. Taking from the fuzzball table, a popular miniature version of soccer in many countries, I designed an odd shaped fuzzball table (a simplification of the Central American geographical map) in which you can actually play, provided that you manage to maneuver the ball around the jagged edges and complex shape of the table. As players start a game, it becomes obvious that, although the elements are all corresponding with a real fuzzball table, playing on this particular one, is impossible.
The piece is about the difficulties we have encountered throughout time becoming one territory, one people. The difficulties abolishing barriers and overcoming disintegration. It also speaks of migrations, a huge phenomenon in this part of the world, in which vast amounts of the population had left their countries to go both north and south, in search of better life conditions. “MejenGo” comprises three fuzzball tables: in one of them all players are facing south, in the other one they face north and a final one has players confronting each other.
On this chapter, you will find sketches, mock-ups ,3D renders and the final construction of MejenGo.
