{"id":496,"date":"2022-03-28T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/?page_id=496"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:30:19","slug":"i-am-error","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/?page_id=496","title":{"rendered":"I AM ERROR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-1024x726.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-1536x1088.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-36x26.jpg 36w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop-48x34.jpg 48w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/plooop.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6NhNONRzCE?si=xrw6nSIiPE1vW5lb\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">I AM ERROR<\/mark><\/strong>, HD CGI film, Runtime: 30 minutes 28 seconds, Commissioned by Gasworks with support from the Freeland\u2019s Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 30-minute animation unfolds as a sequence of cinematic fragments from an imaginary video game, yet unlike conventional cutscenes, where the armoured hero remains visually consistent and narratively stable, this protagonist is never fixed. His body is in continual flux, reshaped through contact with other lifeforms whose touch renders him permeable and unstable. In contrast to the hard, sealed surfaces that typically define digital masculinity, here the body is porous, susceptible, and open to transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10-48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-10.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing on the visual intensity of fantasy erotica and the excess of body horror, Al-Sabah reframes metamorphosis not as failure but as possibility. The hero\u2019s growth is literal and uncontained. Limbs sprout, skin merges with writhing flowers, and flesh entangles with tentacular creatures. These sequences unsettle the historical ideal of the self-contained male avatar, so often coded as invulnerable, disciplined, and sovereign within game worlds. Instead, identity becomes relational, produced through touch, proximity, and contamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-24x14.jpg 24w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-36x20.jpg 36w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J-48x27.jpg 48w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/J.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-24x14.jpg 24w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-36x20.jpg 36w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ-48x27.jpg 48w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JJ.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The imaginary game space thus stages a theoretical reversal. Where digital systems typically depend on stable character models and clear boundaries between player and environment, hero and enemy, Al-Sabah collapses these divisions. The environment is not a backdrop but an active agent of change. Vulnerability, rather than mastery, drives the narrative forward. By allowing the hero\u2019s body to blend into its surroundings, the film challenges the fantasy of control embedded in gaming history and proposes a different logic, one in which transformation, hybridity, and surrender complicate traditional notions of selfhood in both digital and real worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-9-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-9-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-9-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bassamissa.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DLWP-Bassam-Al-Sabah-Installation-View-Low-Res-9-1-300x200.jpg 300w, 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