Patrick Blenkarn is an artist working at the intersection of performance, game design, and visual art. His research-based practice revolves around the themes of language, labour, and economy, with projects ranging in form from video games and card games to stage plays and books. He is the co-creator of the video game for the stage, asses.masses, the arts economy trading card game, culturecapital, and the national video archive of performance documentation, videocan.