Spider Lily: Closing Reception and Artist Talk
Sat, Jan 10
|Gray Area Theater
Your last chance to explore the world of Spider Lily, a cinematic adventure game set in the afterlife created by Cultural Incubator residents falsework studio.
Time & Location
Jan 10, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Gray Area Theater, 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Join on the evening of January 10th as Gray Area welcomes falsework studio (Yuehao Jiang + Matthew J.X. Doyle), whose interactive game work Spider Lily is currently on view in the Gray Area Gallery. Supported by Gray Area's Cultural Incubator program, Spider Lily treats guidance as its central mechanic. Rather than controlling a hero, players escort a fragile other through a system that exceeds comprehension.
The play here is in service of an emotional ecology where loss, trust, judgment, and transformation become mechanical as well as spiritual processes, asking how games might offer new mythologies for the relationship between the living and the dead. During the closing reception, falsework will give a short overview of their work and production process, followed by a guided play-through of the game and a Q&A with the audience. Additionally, all attendees will be entered into a free raffle for a limited edition Perforce Software…