PLAYING GAMES
Zoa, the Green Fertility Goddess, Shoots for the Gold
Conceived by Jay Critchley
Created by Jay Critchley, Larry Jens Anderson, and Richard Russell
Playing Games was part of the 1995 City Site Works program of the Arts Festival of Atlanta, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Playing Games is a humorous and irreverent cutout paper doll athlete book about sports, gender, and homophobia, focusing on the ancient Green Olympics and modern games. The info superhighway links up 3,300 year-old mythical Greek Fertility Goddess, Zoa, a sperm who is still unsure if she is an X or a Y chromosome, with Is/He, the official mascot of the Atlanta 1996 Olym-pecs. The spiritual guide and computer-generated salesmiester, who both have an identity problem, soon discover they are relatives. Plans are laid for Zoa to descend into Atlanta next year for their familiar reunion.
This publication includes two nude male and two nude female cutout paper dolls (on card stock), with numerous separates and changes of clothing, including “Genteel” sportswear and “Testosterone” uniforms, along with “Post-Event Eveningwear” and accessories.
Other pages include: equipment – with balls and no balls, Undergear, Glamour Sports (track and field), Awards and Trophies, Arena “Pin-Ups”, Locker room Fanfair; and games: White (aristocratic) Males Only, X/Y Teasers, OTHER; and, a Laurel Chaplet Cut-Out (paper chain necklace), and Zoa Gold Fan Club mailer.
Published by Parfait de Cocoa Press, Cambridge, MA.
ISBN Number: 09644145-2X