Every system contains within itself the seeds of its own transcendence

As digital infrastructures increasingly shape not only our environments but also the architectures of subjectivity itself, Console Spirituality, curated by Vienna Kim and Benoît Palop (LAN Party) for Feral File, emerges as a precise, almost liturgical inquiry into the threshold where gaming logic, speculative worldbuilding, and technological ritual converge. This is not merely an exhibition about video games; it is a meditation on how interactive systems have come to inform new modes of transcendence within the networked condition.

Video games have long outgrown their status as escapist entertainment. They function as alternate ontological zones—spaces where gravity is negotiable, where identity is recombinant, and where the laws governing reality itself can be reprogrammed. Through this, they propose speculative iterations of existence: futures that destabilize the very terms by which we have come to understand reality. Within this expanded terrain, gaming becomes less an activity than an epistemological framework, an engine of world-construction, narrative experimentation, and spiritual inquiry.

The works brought together in Console Spirituality form not a series of isolated meditations, but rather a cohesive system, a constellation where each practice extends and complicates the others, tracing overlapping trajectories through the unstable field of post-digital subjectivity.