Category: English
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Notes on the black box scenario Inside myself, outside myself
This is a short talk on a black box larp that I gave at Larpwriter Summer School in Lithuania. The text is more precise than the video… I will present a scenario played at the festival Black Box Copenhagen in 2014. The project was initiated by Nina Runa Essendrop and Marie Holm-Andersen under the poetic…
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Tactical Meditations, new Nyxxx piece on tour
My collective Nyxxx has created a new piece which is currently on tour. The 9 shows in Stockholm were sold-out. And it was exciting to meat the young and engaged audience. The work is more open and improvisatory than our previous avatar shows and we guide the audience through a series of exercises, meditating on…
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Knudepunkt 2015 Keynote on bodies in live action role-play
Transcription of a talk given at Knudepunkt 2015, February 14th. Immersion is the excrement of action I have been asked to do this talk on the subject of bodies in live action role-playing, which I’m very happy about since the body has turned centre stage in larp development and design. I have previously together with…
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The Hospitality – a black box role-play
A game in the space around gifts, loss and collective action. In order for another world to be possible, we have to be prepared to lose the world we are already familiar with. Welcome onboard The Hospitality – a space scenario where you and up to thirty other players enter a game or a participatory role-play in…
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Notes on Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man from an interaction design pow
Visiting London I took the oppurtunity to go to Punchdrunk’s epic show The Drowned Man which encompass some 20.000 sqm on 4 floors, 30 actors, a bar, et c. I will not summarise the whole experience here, there is plenty of reviews to read online. What I want to do is to share some thoughts…
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Avatar vs Human – a short avatar scenario to play at home or elsewhere
I’m happy to share this short scenario with you. It was written by me and Ebba Petrén at PAF last summer. You can play it with two people or in front of a smaller audience. The participants should not listen to the track on beforehand. You need • 2 voluntary participants. • A pair of…
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How to go out of body & fuck with yourself
This is a rewrite of a blogpost published in swedish before. I made it for Inpex 2012 edition of the infamous silver bible aka. The Swedish Dance History vol. 4. It’s situated in the very end of the book btw. What happens to our capacities to look and see when our senses are dominated by an…
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An infinite scenario
I put together a short experimental scenario for my workshop at this year’s annual nordic larp (live role-playing) conference Knutepunkt, which I’m happy to share. It’s easy to brief and could probably be played in 15 minutes. Rules / tips Downloadable characters (and cut it in 9 separate cards/sheet) Post-dramatic role-playing? The idea is to…
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The Avatar-Lehrstücke Workshop
Med stöd från Konstnärsnämnden åker jag i maj till INTERNACIONAL BRECHT SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM – PORTO ALEGRE 2013 för att göra en avatarworkshop baserad på Brecht Åtgärden. Det känns grymt spännande! The Avatar-Lehrstücke Workshop Last summer we did an avatar performance based on Brecht’s Die Maßnahme. This approach means that the spectator/spect-actor receives instructions through a headset…
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Working with avatars at PAF
Summer is slowly fading away and I haven’t written here since May, which is a shame because plenty of interesting things has been going on. This week me and Ebba Petrén has had the fantastic opportunity to go to Performing Arts Forum. We have a generous grant from The Swedish Arts Grant Committee to be…
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The Labyrinth of Possibilities
Translated from Swedish by Thom Kiraly. Illustration by Josefin Rasmusson. Published in States of Play (PDF) (ed. Juhana Pettersson, 2012) for the Knutpunkt/Solmukohta conference. Create a reality game for friends and family! Play and storytelling have disappeared from our lives. Adventure has been demoted to being played out on computer screens and pages in books.…
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Clay play in 3D with Sculptris
I recently found Sculptris, a simple software for 3D-modeling. Here are my first tries with it. I’m impressed by how simple and user friendly it is to get going with it and since I started to use it, last week I noticed my view of objects and shapes has changed. Since proportion is the key…