It's play time : 4 conversations with Tijs Goldschmidt, Evelyne Reeves, Joris Luyendijk, Zoe Gray

Structured around 4 conversations, it takes as its starting point the 1938 book Homo ludens: a study of the play-element in culture by Johan Huizinga. The artists spoke with the following people as part of their research into the importance of play in different fields: Tijs Goldschmidt, Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist, on why and how animals play; Joris Luyendijk, Dutch journalist who writes for the BBC’s experimental Banking Blog, which looks at the world of finance from an anthropological perspective. He is currently analysing the behaviour of bankers in the City of London; Evelyne Reeves, director of Le Bureau des Temps in Rennes, an agency that devises improvements in the way the city structures its time; and Zoë Gray about her ideas for the biennale.