“I want to fight for games, but I also want to have difficult conversations about the oppressive things that are happening inside of these spaces that artists are not seeing because they don’t genuinely participate.”
– American media artist
Angela Washko, airing her frustrations with “intellectually lazy” critiques of videogame culture. “I regularly saw artists going into a game community that they may not be familiar with, and extracting something really embarrassing and politically incorrect,” Washko tells MUBI columnist
Matt Turner. “They would identify the lowest hanging fruit, extract it, and take it into a gallery and do well doing that.”
