ABSTRACT
Robert Morris's bodyspacemotionthings, first exhibited in 1971 at the Tate Gallery and restaged in 2009 at Tate Modern, is a work of art that invites participants to engage physically with various movable objects and structures. This chapter analyses just how bodyspacemotionthings in 2009 accomplishes this and considers current correlations between play and governance in artistic playgrounds. The operation of such methods of governance would make the playground constructed by bodyspacemotionthings a biopolitical environment, by which is meant an environment that rationalizes certain 'problems posed to governmental practice by phenomena characteristic of a set of living beings forming a population'. Bodyspacemotionthings encourages a player to pursue or play toward the discovery of constitutive rules, to take certain lessons in playing based upon the perceptual and behavioural capacities of movable structures and to institute new possibilities for these. The players of Bodyspacemotionthings are also players of the game of liberalism as it engages in the production and organization of freedoms.
