We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other
A concrete poem in the browser, a love story, and a dream sequence traversed through closing and opening windows.
2023
~20-40 minutes of playtime
15,000 words
https://whenwe.love/moving ↗
Play on Itch.io ↗
Made in just a weekend, We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other was conceived as a feverish, violently gentle 'dream'. Pushing the bounds of hypertext and working through the potential of intimacy online, the piece is assembled out of multiple windows that force us to attend to our entire machine (beyond a single tab) and explore reading otherwise hidden attributes to piece together a story and message.
Domestic landscapes are shaped with windows that can be dynamically pulled together and apart, forming new worlds within the familiar one of our own. Entirely dependent on the user's gestures, pace of reading, and chance: this hypertextual experience is dense, immense, and cannot help but be read.
To gain new narrative also requires erasure: as the player closes and reassembles their windows, careful to not lose ME or YOU. With each step leaving the artifacts of encounters on your screen and countless possible permutations, you are moved towards prayer, fields, groceries, roads, tooltips, and ultimately, each other. The piece exists in its electronic literature/internet art form, but is also activated as live performances that live somewhere between a poetry reading, ambient performance, and movie screening. It is part of the artist's WHEN WE LOVE series, ongoing encounters and explorations around love and intimacy online and offline.Full playthrough
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