For ArtReview’s latest artist project, David Blandy and Jamie Sutcliffe have developed a solo journaling game called ‘Weird Hope Engines, or; A Choking Dust… Red, Clotted and Awful’.
To set the scene, the game takes place at the end of the twenty-first century. In this time, science fiction has lost all ethics, the Earth’s ecosystem has collapsed, along with it all systems of government, but you have the chance to start life anew on a nearby planet. You board a ship and are tasked with ‘establishing new ways of being’.
Jamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and co-director of Strange Attractor Press. His work explores artistic encounters with science fictive fabulation, the politics of gaming, animation and its multiple entanglements with developments in the life sciences, haunted media, the digital uncanny, and the persistence of myth, all understood as technologies of selfhood.
He is the editor of Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic, published by The Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, and his essays, reviews, and interviews have been featured in Art Monthly, Frieze, The White Review, Rhizome, Art Review, The Quietus, Art Agenda, Bricks From The Kiln, and IsThisIt, amongst others.
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