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EPISODE · Jul 5, 2023 · 54 MIN

Beyond the Gameplay

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Is there any emancipatory potential in playing mainstream video games? And can war games convey pacifist messages? The work of the art collective Total Refusal seems to indicate that the answer is yes. It is so because its members do not play by the rules. They subvert the usual logic of game narratives and show how they are permeated with politics. In this artist talk, two of Total Refusal's members, game theorist Leonhard Müllner and illustrator and cultural anthropologist Robin Klengel, discuss the merging of capitalism with the gaming world and the possibilities of subversion. The talk is moderated by philosopher Václav Jánoščík.Mainsteam video games are the core material of all Total Refusal’s work. Besides films, they also create installations. In the one called Flowers Don't Care, for example, they explore the indestructibility of flora in the environments of three different war video games. Another work of theirs, the video installation Featherfall, is based on research on internet forums in which gamers exchange their dream experiences and shows how close dream and game worlds can be in the psyche of video game players. The collective was founded in 2018 and has won several awards, including the Diagonale Film Award for Best Short Documentary and the Contemporary Visual Arts Award of Styria Province.Follow us on  Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.___Je v hraní mainstreamových počítačových her nějaký emancipační potenciál? A mohou válečné hry předávat pacifistická poselství? Práce uměleckého kolektivu Total Refusal se zdá ukazovat, že ano. Jeho členové*ky totiž nehrají podle pravidel. Převrací obvyklou logiku herních narativů a zviditelňují tak jejich politickou rovinu. O splývání kapitalismu s herním světem a možnostech subverze hovoří v tomto artist talku dva z členů Total Refusal, herní teoretik Leonhard Müllner a ilustrátor a kulturní antropolog Robin Klengel. Moderuje filozof Václav Jánoščík. Total Refusal se definují jako pseudo-marxistická mediální guerilla a mainsteamové počítačové hry jsou základním materiálem celé jejich tvorby. Vedle filmů tvoří také instalace. V té s názvem Flowers don´t care například zkoumají nezničitelnost flóry v prostředí tří různých válečných videoher, videoinstalace Featherfall zase vychází z výzkumu na internetových fórech, v nichž si hráči videoher vyměňují své snové zážitky a ukazuje, jak blízko k sobě mohou mít v psychice uživatelů snové a herní světy. Kolektiv vznikl v roce 2018 a získal několikero ocenění, včetně Diagonale Film Award za nejlepší krátký dokument nebo Contemporary Visual Arts Award of Styria Province.Sledujte nás na sociálních sítích Facebook, Instagram a Twitter.

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