with more than 59 protagonists from Vienna, Bangkok, Zagreb, Munich, Hamburg, London...Tokyo
pixel, bytes & Film in collab with ORF III/ ARTE
GLITCHBODIES is a multiplatform project that consists of a visual novel Game, a VR-Game Experience, an animation movie, and a performance piece. The inclusive project portraits more than 59 international protagonists from Vienna, Munich, Zagreb, Hamburg, London, Bangkok, Berlin, and Tokyo who co-created a parallel GLITCHBODIES-verse with me.
Created through collaborations and rituals GLITCHBODIES explores new forms of feminism, LGBTQ+, Drag transformations and intimate sensitive representations of the protagonists and aims to bring them to a wider audience. In GLITCHBODIES, Avatar becomes a collective and politically charged body. Video games have undoubtedly become the most widespread form of entertainment and its impact on representational stereotypes is huge. GLITCHBODIES responds to socio-political factors as well as to the very male-dominated world of video games by creating an interactive digital space, a fluid journey through infinite individual, gender, and realities. GLITCHBODIES provides a safe platform for non-heteronormative gender positions sharing the notion of queer as political attitude, providing new perspective for the player while celebrating its protagonists with motherly care. The game engine creates safety by ritualizing the celebration of all protagonists within the world, as a mother would. This generates and opens new perspectives for the player, for you. The world within a world is instantly familiar, full of ambitions, wishes and desires through strong and sensitive collaboration with the all-important issue of all-gender equality. As more protagonists gather in GLITCHBODIES, the resolution of gender in the world rises higher and higher.
Lead artist: Rebecca Merlic
Unity development: Vivien Schreiber
Sound design: Manuel Riegler
Scenario: Rebecca Merlic, Hannah Jöchl
Editing (shortmovie): Jana Libnik
Protagonists:
10xflames, Adrianna Knouf, Alexandru Cosarca, Aliya Davletova, Aurorasun Labeija, Anja Jennel, Annemarie Arzberger, Anthea Schranz, Antone Pong, Ari Ban, Danielle Pamp, David Pritz, Donatella Stracciatella, Ed Römer, Ekaterina Kormilitsyna, Gameerror, Hannah Jöchl, Hans Schmidt, Harald Stojan, Hayden Del Rey, Helen Starr, Judith Kranz, Klitclique, Margarete Jahrmann, Marie Luise Lehner, Monika Freinberger, Morrigan Xaster, Natasa Novak, Nuh Peace, Panlert Bent, Pat Brozena, Ploy, Rebecca Merlic, Sailor Leviathan, Salem Haze, Sarah Hauber, Sarah Merlic, Selina Huber, Sheezus Christin, Snackjack, Susie Flowers, Seema Mattu, Tin Tunsopon, Tony Renaissance, Valentino Grassi.
Song credits:
SONGTITLE AUTO
PERFORMED AND WRITTEN BY KLITCLIQUE
PRODUCED BY MIRZA KEBO
(2019)
SONGTITLE S.P.A.M.
PERFORMED AND WRITTEN BY ANTHEA
PRODUCED BY PHILIPP M. MAIER
MASTERED BY ALEXANDR VATAGIN
(2021)
SONGTITLE LOST ISLANDS
PERFORMED AND WRITTEN BY TONY RENAISSANCE
MIXING BY MATAYA WALDENBERG
MASTERING BY DINO SPILUTTINI
(2021)
With support from: The Austrian Federal Ministry for the Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports; ORF III; Vienna Business Agency; Bayrisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst; Bayern Innovativ, Germany