Is Registration Possible? is a weird publication, a broken machine in the shape of a classic computer roleplaying game. The player controls a digitally fossilised goblin wandering through a virtual iteration of Charlois, the Rotterdam neighbourhood where the artist has lived for seven years. The current build of the game can be downloaded and played here. The game is still in development and will likely change a good deal in the coming months.

This is a Charlois reassembled from publicly available datasets and populated by glitching and twitching pieces of detritus. Like the residents of the real Charlois, they are worried about gentrification, surveillance, and how to assemble a linguistic subject position in the wasteland of neoliberalism.

Early writing for some characters was done during the Résidence Internationale de Fontevraud hosted by NEF Animation in l’Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, September 2021.

Is Registration Possible? was kindly supported by an O&O (research & development) subsidy from CBK Rotterdam.