“Infinite Colours” by Xavier Ho
Infinite Colours
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- Infinite Colours
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Infinite Colours brings 2,499 videogame titles into a slow canvas of accumulative light. Each game adds a unique shape and colour onto the canvas and plays a unique string of notes. Over 8 hours, the canvas will be filled with infinite colours to celebrate LGBTQIA+ independent videogames.
History has always been queer. Through this generative visual and sound work, we aim to demonstrate the collective activism, movement, and creative expressions that queer folks are making to be visible, heard, and to say that we are here.
But queer movement does not happen overnight; queer resistance is accumulative and built over generations of self-sacrifice and self-acceptance. The multitude intersectionality of the Everywhen slowly bleeds colour into the world, blends motion into the landscape, and accumulatively becomes a canvas of evermoving colourful light.
The visual execution is much inspired by the Slow Art movement, as well as the light works of Garry Fabien Miller and James Turrell. Conceptually, it depicts 45 years of the history of the Rainbow Flag invented by the late Gilbert Baker and celebrates the queer resistance that is the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras through queer videogames.
