Chapter 1: California pilled from The Alluvials by LA-based artist Alice Bucknell will be screened as a part of the daily cinema programme at Basel Social Club from 9 - 16/06.
The Alluvials is a video work and playable game that explores the politics of drought and water scarcity in a near-future version of Los Angeles. The Alluvials focuses on the slippery interplay between engineered ecology, disaster capitalism, and nonhuman systems that shape Los Angeles. Acknowledging Indigenous relationships to water, particularly the Tongva People of the Greater Los Angeles Basin, the project underscores that nature is an intelligent system, a technology in its own right. The Alluvials are available as a video as well as an editioned game spread across four levels, in which players take on the agency of conventionally non-playable, nonhuman characters (NPCs), including wildfire, the LA River, a Yucca Moth and an ever-spawning field of Joshua Trees, and a pack of wolves.
