Human Parser is a pen-and-paper text-adventure game for 2 players. It explores dissociation through the languages of parsers: those parts of text-adventures that suggest understanding between human and machine. Through these parsers, this project connects questions of personal identity, the virtue of the obsolete, and 'living with a manual'. As an embodied game, players parse each other as a durational performance, rejecting the idea of a person's manual being all-emcompassing, representational or existent.
Human Parser is about the mutual dance of conversation, the asymmetric game of understanding and the incredible loudness of the question: who am I?
