Killscreen: Magnification Game
Nick was invited by Killscreen Magazine to present a couple of game prompts for readers to try at home. They presented a pair of game activities that could completed without any prior game knowledge and without needing any additional tools or game pieces. The first is Magnification Game which can be read here.
Heterotopias: 008.01 Correspondence on the Subject of Power
Heterotopias: 008.01 Correspondence on the Subject of Power 008.01 Correspondence on the Subject of Power, is a epistolary study into the variety of ways that Control (Remedy Entertainment, 505 Games) manifests institutional, supernatural and psychological power through its brutalist interiors and narrative frames, featuring a striking photo-essay tracing the patterns and typologies of “The Oldest House”. […]
Killscreen: Chrome Dino
Nick was invited by Killscreen Magazine to present a couple of game prompts for readers to try at home. They presented a pair of game activities that could completed without any prior game knowledge and without needing any additional tools or game pieces. The second is Chrome Dino, which can be read here.
Overland – Unknowable Anthropofauna
The creatures in Finji’s Overland are, from the outset, unknowable. They’re not adversaries or purposeful antagonists. They just exist, without telegraphing their motives or desires. They don’t even have recognisable faces, reinforcing the alien-ness of their existence and actions. As opposed to the typical invading alien that descends from a darkened sky, they tunnel up […]
New Adventures in Performance: Issue 6
New adventures in performance “By telling a story in a new language, whether that language is dance or film or roleplay, the key points of the story have to be hung on entirely new hooks.” Nick Murray was invited to curate the December 2020 issue of Imitating The Dog’s magazine New Adventure In Performance. Each […]
Spirit Board #1
Spirit Board #1 “It’s not reel-to-reels or spectrometers anymore. Download the latest iSpectre or strap on your VR headset.” The spirit board is a curiosity of its time, but its methods are as uncanny today as they ever were. Nick Murray gives the spirit board a technological overhaul. Virtual space and The Beyond overlap to […]
Volumes of Text
Volumes of Text “At certain times, very dry times, landmarks can reappear on the reservoir banks.” Volumes of Text is a performative reading object, and a collection about and through redundant technologies, made as part of an exhibition of alternative publishing-based practices, curated by Ladies of the Press*. The collection brings together thirteen writers each giving […]