Opening Reception: UNRESOLVED: A Playable Archive of Rage and Reckoning

What happens to rage if you’ve been taught to suppress or ignore it? And what if you could metabolize that rage in community with others? In UNRESOLVED: A Playable Archive of Rage and Reckoning, part of Risa Puno’s ongoing Anatomy of Rage series, the artist invites us to engage with this complex, often taboo, emotion through disarmingly playful experiences that spark conversation and connection.

THE WHEEL OF RECKONING AND RAGE is an interactive sculpture featuring two back-to-back spinners that pose raw, revealing questions about how we process and respond to rage. One spinner asks what goes on inside your head when someone violates your dignity, safety, or sense of belonging. The other side asks what actions (or inaction) you take in response. 

Spin, discuss, and get real. Read what others have shared. Record your reflections and connect them to responses left by others on the gallery walls, contributing to a living archive of shared experiences and emotional truths.

Unresolved Rage Game is a collective storytelling experience inspired by tabletop role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons. But instead of battling medieval monsters, players navigate challenges inspired by real-life instances of racist or sexist microaggressions. Originally developed with Ran Xia during Soho Rep’s 2022-2023 Writer/Director Lab, this raw, vulnerable, super-cringe (yet surprisingly fun!) exploration is designed to help Asian women and femmes process and unpack our various relationships with rage. 

Throughout the exhibition, Puno will activate the gallery with in-person playtests of the latest version of Unresolved Rage Game specifically for Asian women and femmes, as well as workshops for all identities to get curious about rage together. To learn more or to sign up for playtesting, please visit: https://www.risapuno.com/rage 

About the Artist

Risa Puno is an interactive installation artist who takes play seriously. She translates difficult topics — like social privilege, data privacy, or collective caretaking — into disarmingly fun experiences to help people connect more openly with one another.

Her work is grounded in a pre-colonial Philippine ideology called kapwa that means “shared identity” or “shared humanity.” It's the idea that we navigate through spaces with a community rather than alone, and that we have a responsibility to care for others as we care for ourselves.