THE DELUSION: I Can’t Move With You
Brave a post-apocalyptic world and play artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s interactive game exploring cooperation and collective action in a polarised society.
Enter Brathwaite-Shirley’s bewitching vision of an imagined future, where the world has been shaped by a catastrophic event: the ‘Day of Division’.
The Day of Division has broken society into closed, dogmatic factions, each clinging to its own version of truth, community and survival. Now, it’s down to you to work through it.
Work together to move a ball through maze-like levels, navigating obstacles and opinions archived from the daily news cycle. Conceived as a meeting space, the game’s controller – a tilting table called THE UNIFIER – becomes a metaphor for negotiation, cooperation and collective action.
Developed using the community-built, open-source game engine UPBGE, and bringing together artists, technologists, researchers and members of Brathwaite-Shirley’s Black Trans and Queer community, I Can’t Move With You aims to create a space to rehumanise connection and enable honest exchange amid the deep social polarisation that characterises today’s online interactions.
Originally commissioned for THE DELUSION, a multiplayer experience combining cooperative gaming with participatory theatre to explore polarisation, censorship, social connection and the civic potential of video games.
I Can’t Move With You, 2025. Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. Commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies. Made possible by Glass Castle Foundation.
Creative Intelligence is commissioned and produced by the Southbank Centre. Curated with PACT – Planetary Art Culture Technology.
Need to know
For your visit
This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
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Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
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Food & drink
Next to The Clore Ballroom is our Ballroom Cafe where you can grab a coffee and a piece of freshly made cake. Also on Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.