how to be an artist in minecraft
2021
research project and online installation
2021
research project and online installation
This research project is developed during the residency in 2021 at Ender Gallery, which is an exhibition space and artist residency that exists inside the game Minecraft, and manifested as a solo exhibition at the end of residency period.
During my residency time, I created replicas of my artist studio (both physically and in another video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons) and attempted to live a parallel artist life in Minecraft. Taking on the role of an artist-labourer in the game, I also kept a detailed log of my every activity on the server for the residency period, creating a visual data record or ledger for the increasingly overlapping contexts of play and labour in video games - as well as serving to concretize my labour as an artist.
At the end of the exhibition, I destroyed everything I created during the residency brick and brick in an online performance, titled “the closing studio.” The world does not exist anymore and the sever is not active now.
A retrospective text about the four exhibitions happened at Ender Gallery is published on BlackFlash Expanded.
the game log
online exhibition and livestream
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