“Material World Knight: Bardo Tunnel” is a video loop rendered from within Lu Yang’s computer game “The Great Adventure of Material World.” This capture is a scene from the game featuring avatars lining a carpeted path to a tunnel of light. The main game character, Material World Knight, completes quests and battles enemies together with other characters drawn from the artist’s earlier works, while undergoing multiple identity transformations as the game moves beyond tropes of popular manga culture to explore the control of identity liberated from the rigid confines of nationality, gender, and sexuality.
Video (color, silent); 3840 × 2160 pixels, 30 fps; 37 seconds, loop; Apple ProRes 422 Standard
Release price: $34,800 USD (Feral File, 2023).
From Lu Yang’s game The Great Adventure of Material World (2019), presented in Material Wonderland on Feral File.
Source: Feral File.