Zheng Mahler - "The Green Crab"
A downloadable game for Windows
The Green Crab is a speculative investigation of East Asian urbanism taking Singapore and Hong Kong as its two diametrically opposed exemplars. The interactive video game allows users to explore a coastal map of Singapore to uncover the feng shui principles that inform the city-state’s planning. While Hong Kong, as the cyberpunk city par excellence, projects and absorbs in equal amounts techno-orientalist fascination, horror and desire, Singapore is positioned in the western cultural imaginary as its opposite. Challenging this framing, The Green Crab reveals Singapore as the spiritual epitome of an East Asian feng shui city, engineered through (reverse) state alchemy.
The Green Crab was commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum and created in close collaboration with architectural historian Ian Tan and Onebite Studio, Hong Kong.
Visit https://www.zhengmahler.world/ for more information.
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Install instructions
To open: Extract files from zipped download folder and run "Green Crab.exe"
To play: Use WASD or arrow keys to navigate the map. Hold spacebar to explore locations. Click the Green Crab icon to return to the Main Menu.
