
Year 01 (2020)
Online game
On Paranoia TV starting 24.9.
In English
Credits
Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’20
Produced by Alexandra Pirici & Jonas Lund in coproduction with steirischer herbst ’20
With the kind support of the Swedish Embassy in Vienna
“Another pause is keeping everyone indoors, for fear of contagion and further disruption. Nobody knows how long this will last. You wake up in your one-room apartment. It’s Tuesday morning, quiet outside, spring. What do you do next?” So begins the first chapter of the new online game by Alexandra Pirici and Jonas Lund. Devoid of images, it evokes the text adventures of the early computer era, albeit updated to the messenger aesthetics of our own time. The game tells the story of a mysterious disease that causes uncontrolled exhaustion and brings the world economy to a standstill. Guided by poetic text messages the players subject themselves to alternately dystopian, uncanny, and hopeful scenarios and go through altered states of consciousness. One‘s individual choices influence how and where the game will end.
Bio
Alexandra Pirici (1982, Bucharest, Romania) is a choreographer, dancer, and artist. Her practice combines performance art, contemporary dance, and the notion of social sculpture to question contemporary technological developments, historiography, and the implementation of hierarchy. She lives in Bucharest.
Jonas Lund (1984, Linköping, Sweden) is an artist who creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites, and performances. His practice uses interactivity and viewer engagement to critically reflect upon contemporary networked systems and power structures of control as well the mechanisms of the art world. He lives in Berlin.
Credits
Commissioned by steirischer herbst ’20
Produced by Alexandra Pirici & Jonas Lund in coproduction with steirischer herbst ’20
With the kind support of the Swedish Embassy in Vienna