Sleepwalk | Xin Liu

Curated by the Queens Museum

“Sleepwalk” is a solitary adventure game in which you find yourself confined to your apartment in New York City under quarantine. Information about the outside world comes to you through the news, and sometimes filters in through your window. As the days pass, you start to wonder whether this is all a dream.

“Sleepwalk” was built in 120 hours in spring 2020, during which time the artist was living and working in her apartment under COVID-19 self-isolation orders by the State of New York. The game is the artist’s response to a prompt from the Onassis ENTER program.

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Artist: Xin Liu

Title of the work: Sleepwalk

Edition: AP: 10

Year: 2020

Medium/Format: Video Game on macOS and Windows system.

Contains Third party content from:

News headlines from “The New York Times”

Quotes from “This is New York” by Roger Angell

Duration of the work: 4΄30’’ to 6΄

Week 4 of Onassis USA’s ENTER commissions was curated by the Queens Museum.

This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.