Event: Georgie Roxby Smith' "Happy EndGame" (2015)

Smith's new work will be presented at

67 Cambridge Street Collingwood, Australia

Saturday 7 March from 2pm - 4pm

"Gun in hand, the protagonist in Happy End Game – a feminist first person shooter game – firmly returns the power to her female counterparts. In the climate of gamergate, which saw feminist video game critics receiving rape and death threats (alongside having their home addresses published online) for questioning the position of female characters in video games, Georgie Roxby Smith has built her own game in which the lead female character has the opportunity to take down the “white male heroes” that dominate gender and race representation in the gaming industry. All she needs to achieve her end game is to cross an abstracted gallery space populated with domestic appliances (reminiscent of art plinths) and reach her own arcade game. But can she do it and is her epic battle really the end or is the fight forward a perpetual one?" (Georgie Roxby Smith)

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti