The Struggle is Real
🎯“Holy moly, it’s a real clusterf**k out there!”🎯
Here it is, the best of the qualifications and semi-finals of The Struggle is Real ! ! !
🏆 On Thursday 16th we will see who will be the winner! 🏆
You are all invited to assist the carnage, on greencube[DOT]gallery or on the Fondazione Spara twitch channel!!
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THE STRUGGLE IS REAL, is the first artist tournament set in Fondazione Spara — an online multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Riccardo Rudi and Superinternet. — taking place in the context of this fall Green Cube Gallery’s new exhibition program and curated by Clusterduck Collective.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL aspires to be an open and participatory performance on the physical and mental condition of digital artists today. A space where artists are invited to share their frustrations over the hyper-competitive art world. A space to meet, curse, talk and try to survive.
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Fondazione Spara by Riccardo Rudi & superinternet
Curated by the lascivious CLUSTERDUCK Collective
A wonderful Live Commentary by Wade Wallerstein
Hosted by those strange people at Green Cube Gallery
Sponsored by the generous Giga Design Studio, Mirror, NM3
3D Model by the very structured HyperHub
Visual Design by a very tender LEONARDO ROMANO
Sound Design by the sharper of the sharpest MARCO RIP
Congrats and so long to the artists that are struggling for their life, on this cruel social media platform and professional world:
Matthias Schäfer Bob Bicknell-Knight Irene Fenara Valerio Veneruso Domenico Dom Barra Esben Holk Fabien Zocco Federico Delfrati Federico Poni Guildor Gallo Jonas Höschl Kamilia Kard Luca Leggero Marco Cadioli Mario Santamaria Influ Bani Parasite 2.0 Adonis Archontides Silvio Lorusso Simona Andrioletti Studio Tonnato The Hmm The Cool Couple Seong-Young Her Sofia Braga Willem De Haan
Meanwhile, we are on a secret mission in San Marino!
Together with other participants, so far we have already explored many different topics: why nipples can't be free; the consequences of Snapchat dysmorphia and TikTok ticks; the human and robotic catfishing from Onlyfun to Replika; the infininte feedback loops of Post truth and propaganda; centralised and decentralised Metaverses; the dark effects of memes for meme celebrities and the scary consequences of League of Legend tournaments and such.
While we keep trying to unravel this Clusterf**k, we want to thank the “Web design and multimedia” course (with Pietro Costa and Davide Giorgetta) at UNIRSM Design for hosting us in their “Digital Safari”.
We are happy to present THE STRUGGLE IS REAL, a series of artists’ death matches curated by CLUSTERDUCK and played in Fondazione Spara — an online multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Riccardo Rudi and superinternet, that will take place in the wonderful Green Cube Gallery!
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL aspires to be an open and participatory performance on the physical and mental condition of digital artists today. A space where artists are invited to share their frustrations over the hyper-competitive art world. A space to meet, curse, talk and try to survive.
A selection of 32 international digital artists will face each other in seven elimination matches, lasting 10 minutes. The artist who will hold the pole position till the end, will win the phantasmatic prize: a 500€ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ ꜰᴇᴇ. 🤑
Thanks to Giga Design Studio Mirror and NM3.
The events will be streamed through Twitch on Green Cube Gallery’s website from November 25th - date of the first two matches - to December 16th, date of the final match.
Visit www.greencube.gallery for the latest info on the tournament and see the live streams!
𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴:
Adonis Archontides, Bani Brusadin, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Dirk Paesmans, Domenico Dom Barra, Esben Holk, Fabien Zocco, Federica Di Pietrantonio, Federico Delfrati, Federico Poni, First Last, Guildor, Irene Fenara, Jonas Höschl, Kamilia Kard, Luca Leggero, Marco Cadioli, Mario Santamaria, Matthias Schäfer, Molly Erin McCarthy, Parasite 2.0, Proyectouna, Seong Her, Silvio LoRusso, Simona Andrioletti, Sofia Braga, Studio Tonnato, The Cool Couple, The Hmm, Valerio Veneruso, Willem de Haan, Zsolt Mesterhazy.
3D Model: Hyper Hub
Visual Design: Leonardo Romano
Teaser sound design: Marco RIP
Live Commentary: Wade Wallerstein