Category: English
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Dance to another song – widing@möte09
This is the möte09 dance, and this is how you do it: mote09.org Music by Pink Floyd, “Remember a Day”, 1968
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Abaxial Audience Experience
I watch dance on a stage I sit there quiet Ten minutes pass I feel my back lean towards a soft surface My feet turn warm Twenty minutes has passed I discretely put my shoes off My pelvis and ischium sink down in the seat Thirty minutes since I arrived I put my shoes on…
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Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? ställdes ut av Richard Hamilton på This Is Tomorrow, 1956. Av en slump stötte vi på motsvarande bild, fast av idag. “Fotad” i Second Life: Likheten är oavsiktlig, men vad kan man säga annat än … Just what is it that makes today’s…
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Labyrinthine workshop
Intro, the participants standing in a circle with blindfolds on: We will walk through a labyrinth. It is created with inspiration from blueprints that I got from some people that spend a lot of time in the forests surrounding Stockholm. It is a story about courage and compassion, about lost souls seeking meaning and context.…
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Maskplay, Jakobsberg
This is a session from the reality game Maskplay. It was performed 21:st September 2008 in Stockholm suburb Jakobsberg. Plain documentation.
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Alive and role-playing
Published in lifelike (PDF) edited by Gade, Thorup, 2007. Live role-playing. For the last few years we have been talking and writing a lot about the latter part of the concept. The role-playing has been the main focus. We say live role-playing developed from talking- heads tabletop role-playing games. That is of course true in…
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Interventions for Exorcing Exoticism
This is documentation from a performance produced by Gabriel Widing & Leo Nordwall at Exorcising Exoticism, Shin Kong Mitskoshi, Taipei, 2006. We have considered the theme of the exhibition carefully and found some specific entry points that we’d be interested in working with. Manifestations We would like to work with these issues by manifesting a…
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The Character, the Player and Their Shared Body
The article is written by Gabriel Widing & Tova Gerge, published in Role, Play, Art, edited by Thorbiörn Fritzon and Tobias Wrigstad, in conjunction with the 10th Knutpunkt Convention in Sweden, 2006. What happens to our bodies when we give them to characters and place them in new environments and situations? Where do these memories…
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Interacting Arts International Issue 2006 – Radical Role-Playing
A changed approach to moral concepts and view on society could lead to a sudden transformation of the role-playing hobby into a militant political movement. Örnstedt & Sjöstedt, De övergivnas armé In 1997 a book was published that caused moral panic in Sweden. It claimed that role-playing was a dangerous hobby – that it could…
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Interacting Arts International Issue 2005
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Post Panopticon
This was my first text published in English and it has some weak parts but I’ve left it unchanged. It was published in the anthology Beyond role and play (PDF), edited by Montola & Stenroos in 2004. Analysing live action role-playing has always been problematic. The subjectivity of every experience makes the personal reflection a…