GABRIEL WIDING

Category: Text

  • 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…

  • Kollektivt skrivande, experiment på Knutpunkt

    Under vår workshop i kollektivt skrivande på Knutepunkt i Norge använde vi programmet SubEthaEdit, tre bärbara macar och en projektor. Programmet hette först Hydra (innan de blev stämda, någon annan hade ju trademark på det mytiska monstret från antika grekland!) och det begreppet har levt kvar som verb i vårt gäng. Att hydra en text…

  • Salongsrevolutionärerna

    We miss the directness of play (our original kick in doing art in the first place); we miss smell, taste, touch, the feel of bodies in motion. – Hakim Bey, Immediatism, vii Undandragandet och dess icke-handling implicerar således inte bara en reträtt från öppen strid med fienden, flykten ger inte bara ett tillfälle att slicka…

  • 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, 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 lame…