Game Art: Pippa Stalker/Tshabalala's "Telling Death" (2006-)
Images courtesy of Pippa StalkerDeath plays a major theme in life, art and videogames. In “Telling Death” Pippa Stalker/Tshabalala has combined this elements into a new art project. It began in 2006 when she exhibited a series of photographs at The Parking Gallery in Johannesburg. The serie was entitled Simulation and consisted of approximately 1000 photographs of "people" she had killed in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Now Pippa has taking the next step with the project:“And now comes the next step - telling your own version of their death. I want YOU to get involved in making something interesting and public by telling your own stories - stories of how these "people" died... Be creative, be weird, be out there, as long as you're original - anything goes.” (quote from Pippa's blog).On her blog, you can choose a picture and contribute with your own story. Maybe “Telling Death” will become the new videogame version of Edgar Lee Masters' famous poem collection Spoon River Anthology (1915), where the dead citizen from Spoon River tell their own stories (Mathias Jansson).Link: Pippa Stalker's Telling DeathNote: This reminds me of Lisbeth Karlstrup's brilliant Death Stories project (Matteo Bittanti) []