THE BELLS PURSUING ONE ANOTHER

Bells Pursing One Another is a cooperative video game in which two players each play as a Cuvier’s beaked whale, working together in the Great Bahama Canyon to capture a squid. The game is played via split screen with side-by-side first-person perspectives of the whales, and features synth-based audio design to communicate harmony between whales, squid presences, and canyon depth. The game highlights the volatility of underwater living conditions — sudden man-made sonar blasts may kill the whales at any point, demonstrating that human influences can bring about fatal destruction without warning at any time. Photos courtesy of François Ghebaly Gallery.





Credits
* Direction: Rindon Johnson
* Audio Design: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
* Development: Pariah Interactive

Pariah Interactive Team
* Engineering: Prashast Thapan
* 3D Environment Design: Stephanie Davila
* Additional Programming: YiXi “Luna” Wu
* Production: Lillyan Ling

Press
* Albertinum: "Exhibition by the winner of the 12th Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture 2022"
* ART AFRICA: "Rindon Johnson receives the 2022 Ernst Rietschel Art Prize for Sculpture"