12-28, 17:30–18:10 (Europe/Berlin), Dijkstra
Language: English
a didactic live-gaming performance about dying women across video game history
Never Forgetti
lecture performance, 2018
multiplatform game,
soundtrack & strategy guide
Never Forgetti is a didactic live gaming lecture about the deaths of female video game characters and how their normative framing prevents them from developing agency to avert their fatal destiny. The performance investigates on power relationships between lecturer and audience to reflect on how models of subjugation are established in media and our current social realities. Taking on the persona of Jenny Vorfahrt, a mysterious character that exists both outside and inside the gaming realm, I provide attendees with showcase of gameplay and theoretical knowledge about life and death of popular heroines, as well as the symbolism of classical game design. In reality, however, Jenny is pursuing her own secretive agenda...
