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The Indifferent Wonder of Edible Places

 
 

The Indifferent Wonder of Edible Places.

- project Somewhere.

The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place is a story about a municipal building eater consuming the last tower in a town condemned to be removed from history. It is an examination of the violence of erasure, and ponders the grave cost and the profound grief of having to survive at the edge of despotism, where places of entangled heritage and culture are willfully effaced.

The game was created in response to the demolition of the Babri Masjid, and amidst large-scale protests in India in 2019-2020, that erupted when our government tried excluding and including citizens based on their faith while implementing a Citizenship Amendment Act . 

This game is our attempt at trying to confront the steady stream of religious and doctrinal violence perpetrated on fragile bodies and fragile communities; And a demonstration of the grief unleashed by the rule of a Hindutva majority that has turned places of syncretic history into sites of perpetual conflict.  If amidst such hurt and erasure, believing in and espousing the possibility of an inclusive record of our lives is a form of rebellion, then this game is certainly an act of resistance. Meant to be read in solidarity with all those brave enough to stand against the government and protest the withdrawal of our right to live in a generous nation.

STEAM
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Credits :

The game is an excerpt from a larger project called, Langoors in the Labyrinth, originally created as a commission for the Phoenix gallery. Leicester and later displayed at the Videogame Art Gallery in Chicago at the Notes in the Margins of History exhibition.