EVENT: VOLUNTARY ATTEMPTS TO OVERCOME NECESSARY OBSTACLES (SEPTEMBER 23 - OCTOBER 29 2022, NEW YORK)
On View: September 23 – October 29, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, September 23, 2022, 6-8 PM
curated by Nicholas O’Brien
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
P: (212) 563 5855 x244
E: projectspace@efanyc.org
Featured artists
Pippin Barr
Jeremy Couillard
Charity Porpentine Heartscape
Nathalie Lawhead
Everest Pipkin
The Escape From Woomera Collective
Studio Oleomingus
Angela Washko
Robert Yang
press release (excerpt)
EFA Project Space presents Voluntary Attempts to Overcome Necessary Obstacles, a group exhibition of artists, designers, and developers exploring the boundaries of games as an artistic medium. This exhibition attempts to sidestep the reactionary debates of whether “games can be art” and instead highlights works that have already put an end to this question. By bringing these works together at EFA Project Space, curator Nicholas O’Brien, wants to show contemporary art audiences how games have been having parallel (or shared) conversations about politics, society, history, and identity in equally nuanced, poetics, and critical ways.