As part of the exhibition Fire and Forget: On Violence, at Berlin’s KW Institute until 30 August, artist Hunter Jonakin is showing his 2011 video game titled Jeff Koons Must Die!!!, which anyone can play by inserting 25 cents in the fabricated 1980s style stand-up arcade game.
Using a first person perspective, the game is set in a large museum during a Jeff Koons retrospective, where the player is invited to destroy all the art with a rocket launcher. If successful the player will then have to deal with Jeff Koons himself, who also sends out guards in retaliation, followed by overwhelming waves of curators, lawyers and assistants, until the player is also annihilated.
Players are not advised to re-enact the game at Koons’s actual current major retrospective, which, having already been shown the Whitney Museum and the Centre Pompidou, is at the Guggenheim Bilbao, through 27 September.
2 July 2015.
