PING PONG PING

Social Infrastructure No.39
Toronto, Ontario, 2025

Curated by Myta Sayo for Art Nest at the Toronto
Outdoor Art Fair in Nathan Phillips Square

With an unfamiliar arrangement of tables and an abundance of paddles and balls, Ping Pong Ping invites visitors to actively play and to spontaneously make up a game with rules of their own - to expand the possibilities of engagement. The traffic jam of tables missing their nets questions the binary nature of the traditional game with its strict hierarchy and directionality, in favour of celebrating the plural through abstraction and an open-ended uncertainty. As a social infrastructure, it is important that Ping Pong Ping cannot be used alone and encourages strangers to interact and actively participate with the artwork and one another.

As both a conceptual and an ecological approach, “Ping Pong Ping” engaged the ephemeral nature of the three-day art fair by working only with elements that will be entirely reused after so that the installation produced zero waste.