Category: English
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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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Staged Larceny – stealing attempt at Baltic Circle Festival
Last week I had the opportunity to go to Helsinki to make a performance together with Pekko Koskinen from Reality Research Center. It was performed at the Baltic Circle Festival under the title Staged Larceny: This operation attempts to steal the fabric of one performance to create another. The theft is conjured by you, our…
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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:
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PAF – an invisible academy
I wrote my last post from my room (above) in PAF – Performing Arts Forum, located in the village S:t Erme north east of Paris. It’s a self-organised space in an ex-monastry for people into performance and art. I just finnished reading The Name of the Rose that is set in a monastry, which creates…
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100 Dancers – It’s far from the studio to the streets
I’ve spent a week in Copenhagen at the 100 dancers workshop. The aim was to do improvised public dance performances. Although I haven’t had time to seriously think through what we did I have some thoughts that I want to share with the ones who were in the workshop as well as people interested in…
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Kitchen Sink Surrealism Avatar Exercise
“Develop a surrealist sensibility in your kitchen.” I would love to get some feed-back on this 10 minutes long sketchy single-player audio session. Written by Tova Gerge, Ebba Petrén & Gabriel Widing Music by Tobias Wedin Preparations The exercise is carried out individually, although other people can be present in the room as witnesses. Play…
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Avatarvaro – game test video documentation
The avatar figure derives from hindu gods taking human or animal shape to run errands on earth. In the digital communities of the 90:s the concept was reversed – the participants were represented by digital characters on screen, putting people in the former positions of the gods. This project is about the avatar condition, being…
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Notes from a seminar with Francesco ‘Bifo’Berardi
Some notes from a seminar at Doch Stockholm March 29 – April 1, 2010 Origin from the italian autonomia movement the media activist and political theorist Bifo has a formulated a question that activates philosophical as well as psychological concerns: Is it possible, under present conditions, to form a collective process of subjectivation? So what…
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Notes on darkness
The recent Almost out of sight festival at Weld as well as the works Observatory (MDT) and The Infinite Conversation (Magasin 3) has proposed a discussion on the concept of darkness in performance art. What happens to the artistic means and the aesthetic sensibility when they are deprived of visual expressions and representations? The sensory…
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Playground – New mag on roleplaying
There is a new magazine on indie roleplaying and experimental live roleplaying. The first issue was released at the Knudepunkt conference and the editorial team is pan-nordic. They aim for to publish it on a quarterly basis and are interested in new, strange and obscure stuff related to role-playing in any form. If you are…
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The Alienation Game
I did a workshop today with good help from Ebba Petrén at Knudepunkt titled Dance, movement, scores. The aim was to play with body and movement to bring a physical dimension to role-playing. As a part of it I set up a sequence of 4 physical scenes concerned with alienation, that worked quite well, especially…
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Co-writing a park, inhabiting it with role-playing
Nordic live role-playing conference Knudepunkt has started, Miriam has some photos. Yesterday I gave a workshop about writing “fictions and try different approaches to co-creation. Everyone write in the same document simultaneously.” I want to share an exercise developed with Ulf Staflund, that I’ve only done once before but enjoyed a lot both times. I’ve…