Concentric Fictions of a Generous History, solo exhibition at KillScreen, Los Angeles. Photo credit : Ian Byers Gamber, courtesy of Killscreen.
Studio Oleomingus is a small, independent game and arts studio, based in Chala, India.
We practice at the intersection of post colonial writing and interactive fiction, and we use videogame spaces as sites of discourse, resistance and record. With our games we attempt to study colonial power structures and the histories that they occlude and how interactive fiction might be used to pollute a single reductive record of the past or of a people.
We are keenly interested in languages, translations and questions of authorship, of bodies and territories, and of transactions and movements across borders. But most of all we study stories or narratives or fragments of data that can be recorded in the form of hypertext.
Studio Oleomingus was created by Dhruv Jani who runs it in collaboration with Sushant Chakraborty. Frequent collaborators include, Salil Bhayani and Suparna Chakraborty.
NEW YORK TIMES : Critiquing India’s Politics With Absurdist Games.
A MAZE. BERLIN 2020 : Winner of the Humble New Talent Award.
STIR WORLD : Indian video game developer Studio Oleomingus reconfigures history
KILL SCREEN : On Studio Oleomingus' daring interventions into India's past, present, and future
THE GUARDIAN : Studio Oleomingus create surreal games that unpick India’s thorny past & take aim at its chaotic present
GARAGE / VICE : Part Video Game, Part Art Exhibition, and Entirely Mesmerizing
SLEEK MAGAZINE : Studio Oleomingus are creating surreal video games to tell marginalised stories
VENTURE BEAT : How Studio Oleomingus is crafting its Indian post-modern fairy tale
SPORTSKEEDA : “The right to consume our own histories": Dhruv Jani, talks about creativity & meaning
KILL SCREEN : Deconstructing colonial histories through interactive worlds.
write to us at : studio(a)oleomingus(dot)com