World Championship Cup Classic by Mad Radtke and Malakai Greiner

World Championship Cup Classic critically examines sports in the United States through visual art and performance.

While we acknowledge the excitement of sports, we are also conscious of the problems that arise within the structures and seek to inspire change for the future. As sports fans and artists, we are interested in interrogating the structures of performativity (rules, teamwork, play, competition), role (gladiator, religious figure, gender), spectatorship (voyeurism, public gaze, living vicariously through your team, commodification) and beauty (athleticism, endurance, aesthetic) within sport. A sport is a set of rules and hierarchical roles applied to an athletic activity. Sport is collaboration, theatricality, endurance, mastery, performance, a battle of luck against skill, a battle against the future, all existing within boundaries of time and space uniquely specific to sporting itself. Overall, sport is art.