Labor in Question
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Make your own sound collage: find objects connected to industrial history and record what they sound like.
Click the left mouse button to begin
Movement: WASD
Look: Mouse
Audio recording:
r: record
p: pause
f: finish recording
g: download
A digital archive in the form of a video game, exploring the lives of factory workers and the legacy of industrial culture in post-soviet Karelia. Space, sound and objects are the result of reflection on the collected memories of the workers of the Onega Tractor Plant. Players navigate a map and record sounds using a virtual recorder, assembling their own sound collage. They can reimagine the world of state-owned factory labor, from utopian fairy tales about the future, to the decline of the beginning of capitalism.
Created by Denis Protopopov and Olga Zubova. denisprotopopov.com