Rear Windows - Holding Pattern, 2021

Made for Burrinja's Holding Pattern project 2021

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“Holding Pattern” curates a newly created series of purely digital arts experiences,
delivered directly to your mobile phone every Monday in May.

New work, new ideas, from the new world.

Responding to the idea of ‘the anthropause’ (a considerable global slowing of modern
human activities, notably travel, due to COVID-19 restrictions affecting the flow of human  movement globally), five contemporary artists are commissioned by Burrinja to make new  digital works.

The project will be delivered to audiences via their own mobile phones, turning our hand  held screens into the stages of our future.

Artists include Gretel Taylor, Roderick Price, Julien Macandili, Rhys Kierkegaard, and
Edwina Green.

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Rear Windows by Julien Q. Macandili

Between the years 2030-2050, there will be an estimated 250,000 people dying each year because of climate change. Some experts have stressed that this is a conservative estimate, and that the deaths are already occurring today. So who should be held accountable for the hundred thousands of lives lost? Rear Windows is a (mass) murder mystery game where you can have a stab at this question. Play and attempt to find the culprit of this heinous crime.

The game shows that the epoch of Anthropocene cannot be paused simply by reducing mobility such as the effect of COVID-19 restrictions. The logic of capitalism and class divisions in our society is at the root of the climate crisis which cannot be done away without radical action.