[Press Release]

Anne de Boer, Eloïse Bonneviot, Viktor Timofeev, Joey Holder, Gaile Pranckunaite, Agatha Valkyrie Ice (Dorota Gaweda & Egle Kulbokaite), Anna Mikkola, Riverside (Dominique Michel, Mia Sánchez, Andreas Kalbermatter), & Christopher Kulendran Thomas 

We provide the tools. How you survive is up to you. House of Egorn relaunches with artist summit extraordinaire at its new space

r u still here? – opening at House of Egorn on Potsdamer Strasse 96, Berlin, on 13 October

The environment is not kind. Bears and wolves will chase and kill you. Falling from a height will kill you. Being exposed to radiation for an extended period will kill you. Starving will kill you. Being cold will kill you. Other players can find you, kill you, and take your stuff. Fortunately for you, you can kill others and take their stuff. Rust’s world is harsh. We provide the tools. How you survive is up to you.

Egle & Dorota (image courtesy the artist and House of Egorn)

Curated by Annika Kuhlmann and the Mycological Twist, r u still here? takes on the notoriously brutal online multi-player game ‘Rust’. For a week-long in game residency, participating artists lived together to construct an art space within the game, mounted an exhibition and staged performances in a virtual world. Living by their own rules and collaborating in a hostile environment, a momentary interruption was carved into the continuum of the game, an open structure in which anyone could participate.
House of Egorn’s inaugural show at its new location on Potsdamer Strasse takes experimentation further, reuniting the protagonists of this virtual artistic experience, now back in the real.

Eloise Bonneviot (image courtesy the artist and House of Egorn)

Anne de Boer “Here I am Now” (image courtesy the artist and House of Egorn)

Anne de Boer “Here I am Now” (image courtesy the artist and House of Egorn)