Category: English
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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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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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The Avatar Condition
An UngaTur performance piece in collaboration with Interacting Arts There is no audience. There are no actors. The Avatar Condition is something else. Discover who you become when someone else makes your decisions. The Avatar Condition is an invitation to being controlled. To act without having to make decisions. Through headphones, you are instructed to…
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Circle of Scent
This is a simple score for an aesthetic experience tied to our smelling senses. It’s not site, but audience specific in the sense that the experience will differ depending on whom the participants are. The Circle of Scent is realized through a few simple steps: Organize a group of people in a circle, facing the…