While many of the works included in SMS were designed to be interactive, only Giorno’s contribution came in the form of a game. Modeled on Surrealist exercises such as the Exquisite Corpse, players are invited to predict their future by drawing cards that each link excerpts of appropriated text with items derived a stereotyped Chinese restaurant menu. While the piece might now seem to have problematic Orientalist overtones, it was intended in the same non-serious spirit as the predictions found on the inside of fortune cookies.
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