What?

Sports Raves: Multiform is a series of four alternative sports tournaments held at The Broad museum in Los Angeles in June 2026. Welcoming more than 800 people at each edition, the event transforms the museum into a vibrant arena where sports, music and queer culture come together.

At the heart of the programme is Multiform, an alternative team sport conceived by designer Gabriel Fontana and presented during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The game invites players to regularly switch teams and experiment with new forms of collaboration.

Why?

Commissioned in the context of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Los Angeles and presented alongside The Broad's special exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the project challenges the binary logic of “US versus THEM” inherent in competitive sports. Against a backdrop of political polarisation and growing tensions around rights and freedoms in the United States, Sports Raves reclaims sport as a political space for connection, resistance and solidarity.

How?

Designed as a participatory spectacle, each tournament is accompanied by DJ sets from the renowned California radio station KCRW. Drag performances and appearances by the queer lucha libre troupe Lucha VaVOOM punctuate the matches, alongside inclusive fitness warm-ups and live commentary. A sports bar, a vintage sportswear pop-up shop and workshops for children extend the experience beyond the playing field.

Visitors were also invited to engage with Yoko Ono's White Chess Set (1966), in which opponents develop alternative strategies for playing on an entirely white chessboard. This proposition resonates with Gabriel Fontana's own approach to rethinking competition, notably through the one-way foosball table developed for the SIDELINED exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.