Artist Leo Robinson will guide you through a single-player quest game – also playable collaboratively – which makes a journey through the feeling of longing for a lost home.
Developed through Leo’s current research, Stone Portals explores questions of ritual, ancestry, and migration, aiming to provide often absent archetypal stories to those searching for a sense of diasporic belonging, and worldbuilding through play.
The game appropriates images from postal stamps in St. Vincent and the Grenadines which depict Carnival from the 1970s to the present day. These images, originally created through a fetishistic and idealistic gaze, are recontextualised to construct new narratives and meanings in conversation with ideas about psychoanalysis, tarot, pop culture, and Afrofuturism, as well as the work of black theorists such as Édouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon.
Programmed as part of Travelling Gallery’s current exhibition SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries, a group exhibition exploring ways to connect with our worlds through other-than-human perspectives.
The event is open to all but we encourage attendance by those with connections to histories of migration or who identify as part of a diaspora.
Travelling Gallery is funded by Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Fund programme and City of Edinburgh Council.