Parse Journal (Jun 2022)
Laser Emission, Krabstadt and Geography—Krabstadt as “Gray Humor”
Abstract
The text is a multilayered reading of the feminist transmedia project Krabstadt. Starting as a review of Krabstadt’s (counter) computer game, “Arrabbiata Wants a Raise,” the text unfolds through cross-cultural references weaving through game spaces, the question of horizontality, practices of confronting institutions, encounters with game characters and thresholds, and the ashes of gray humor that pervade the Krabstadt atmosphere. You enter Krabstadt as a player, an art viewer, a reader, and become lost in its never-ending corridors and jumpy floorplans that are blueprints to the making of the Krabstadt Education Center.
