Tag: larp
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Against design published in the larp anthology Liminal Encounters
The annual Nordic live action role-play conference Knutpunkt/Solmukohta usually comes with an anthology on different aspects of larp. This year’s title was LIMINAL ENCOUNTERS: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp and it was edited by Kaisa Kangas and her team. There are many good contributions to this year’s book. I can specifically recommend “The…
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Rest in peace Keith Johnstone
I just heard that the improvisation guru Keith Johnstone (1933 – 2023) passed away. He visited Stockholm occasionally and worked with Susan Osten and others, which also meant that his work was translated and published in Swedish. I think his work was absolutely fundamental to bridge the world of games and theater and thereby making…
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Visiting Portal10
I had the pleasure of giving a workshop with Thom Kiraly at Portal10 in Krakow on the midsummer weekend. Among other things I tried out the prototype for mobile phones created with Nea Landin. The material draws inspiration from Baudrillard’s Ecstasy of Communication: The body as a stage, the landscape as a stage, and time…
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Workshop at Portal 10 LARP Conference
The 10th Portal celebrates diversity and invites all larpers from North, East, South, West, to share their approaches, styles, cultures, and cardinal directions of larping. We don’t strive to be a compass that shows the right direction but a wind rose that showcases all the directions at the same time. There are no rights or…
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Another body is possible / There is no body B.
Matilda Tjäder, curator at Minibar in Stockholm, invited the artist Susan Ploetz, Patricia Reed and me to talk in relation to Susan’s somatic larp The Guild. Here is my take. I decided to talk under the title “Another body is possible / There is no body B.” This title paraphrases two slogans from the globalisation…
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Talk on bodies, politics & nordic larp at Minibar, Stockholm
PROTOCOLS #2 & #3 extra_sensory A THREEFOLD PUBLIC LECTURE ❢❢ SUNDAY APRIL 30, 2017 2–5pm ❢❢ ‶Maybe perceiving would be a better word,” he said. “There’s much more involved than sight. It knows everything that can be learned about you from your genes. And by now, it knows your medical history and a great deal…
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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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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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States of Play is out (the 2012 edition of the annual nordic larp anthology)
The Nordic live role-playing (larp) anthology of the year has arrived. For once prior to the Knutpunkt/Solmukohta conference, which is excellent, so that the participants can read up before they go there. This time it’s edited by art-house larp writer and critique Juhana Pettersson. It’s called States of Play – Nordic Larp around the World…
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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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Autonoma världar – magisteruppsats i estetik om levande rollspel
Jag kom på att jag inte lagt upp min magisteruppsats i estetik från 2008. Den är faktiskt ganska bra och kan säkert vara av intresse för somliga. Den går att ladda ner från Södertörns högskola i PDF-format. Annars går den bra att kika på nedan. Jag använder bland annat Mellan himmel och hav samt Futuredrome…