{"id":1061,"date":"2018-02-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/revisit\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2018-03-31T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T14:25:18","slug":"certainty-is-a-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/revisit\/certainty-is-a-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Certainty is a Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

30. bis 31. Mai 2018, 10\u201318 Uhr<\/strong>
\n2 full days workshop for 10 to 30 participants
\n<\/strong>7.G01 (Zeichnungssaal)<\/p>\n

Mark Durkan, Nina Runa Essendrop and Nina Lund Westerdahl (LARP masters)
\nLudovica Parenti, Matthew Hanson (organisers)<\/p>\n

The workshop is open for anyone, who is committed for the whole two days.
\nPlease register: ludovica.parenti@zhdk.ch\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

An introduction to Nordic Live Action Roleplay (Nordic LARP)
\n<\/strong>The experimental setting of this workshop tests alternative learning methods. It draws its methods not directly from Black Mountain, but works inherently with dynamics of cross-disciplinarity in groups and picks up the architectural infrastructure of the ZHdK as a character for its workshop.<\/p>\n

The day\u2019s 1st phase (The Long Context) introduce the performative place, and we explore urban spaces that doesn’t just have character, but is a character.
\nThe 2nd phase (Feel your Feeling) centres on being connected to our surroundings, ourselves and others and how imposed restrictions serve to focus action.
\nThe 3rd phase (Building Alibi) focus on how to activate a shared vision, collaborative character building and relationship creation, before we larp a fictional party.<\/p>\n

Day II: Reality Fiction<\/strong>
\nWe play a four hour larp (+1h intro), followed by a debriefing structured to decompress the experience and critically reflect on the roleplayed characters and the processes. We end with an reflection on how role play is or could be a part of the student\u2019s own practise.<\/p>\n

\n

A Way to Play – an exploration of art and LARP in contemporary society.<\/strong>
\nby Nina Lund Westerdahl<\/p>\n

This is not about who we are, but what we can become.<\/p>\n

For a moment we live an alternate reality.
\nWe are as true to this reality as to any.<\/p>\n

Before we enter this space we prepare.
\nWe negotiate the codes of social conduct\/ our actions\/ physical borders\/ roles…
\nWe attend. We consent.<\/p>\n

The sites are navigated, sensory processes manipulated, and flexible identities inflated.<\/p>\n

For now we rehearse alternatives. Realities. Possible futures. Possible Pasts.
\nAnother now. How are we now and here. Nowhere. Now here.
\nThrough the performance and the larp we get an embodied experience of the possible.<\/p>\n

Now we embody the actions.
\nOf the roles we perform.
\nOf the everyday.
\nOf the extreme.
\nWe take on the roles of humans in all situations.
\nWe explore any aspect of life.
\nWe look at people only as sensuous beings.
\nWe perceive everything as consciousness.
\nWe play a Rock.
\nWe explore Society\/ Social encounters\/ Small and great\/
\nThe seemingly unimportant\/ The seemingly important\/
\nThe moments of life -our own or other\u2019s- we find hard to relate to.
\nWe (re-)visit\/ Pasts\/ Presents\/ Futures.<\/p>\n

We question the hierarchy of perception.
\nThe consumption of art, of theatre, of movies.
\nWhere\u2019s the border between the audience, the \u201cparticipants\u201d, the creators?<\/p>\n

Afterwards the foundation for the experience is revisited.
\nWe reimagine significant aspects of our formulations and unravel the fictional narrative.
\nThe conscious reflection on ourselves\/ the story\/ the feelings\/ reactions\/
\nThe expected\/ the unexpected
\nThe frame of (self)reflection is a tool, we carry with us.<\/p>\n

Therefore it\u2019s a practise space for how to live.
\nNot only the larp itself, but everything that surrounds it too.
\nA mode and a form of how to navigate
\nthe social space between us \/behind us \/in front of us.<\/p>\n

Larp is to immerse yourself into a fictitious reality. Or a real fiction.
\nEverything is fiction. And all fiction is real.<\/p>\n

Immersion is the buzzword of the last years.
\nImmersion is the complete transformation of space.
\n\u201cThey\u201d always compare it to when we\u2019re pushed into water.
\nOur instinct of navigation (movement, feelings, reactions, language) conduct our lives.
\nWhen in water, we instinctively know, that we have to navigate differently.
\nFaced with this new environment we learn to swim.<\/p>\n

We experience, how we can change our patterns of navigation,
\nWe are faced with our capacities. And our incapacities.<\/p>\n

Our reactions are, in \u201cThe Real World\u201d, predetermined by the situation\/ architecture\/ culture\/ the people we find around us. Often we forget that the situation is designed (social media, consumerism, society\u2019s institutions…).We navigate by instinct.<\/p>\n

In larp, this situationist frame is designed. No doubt.
\nTransparency is key, and by making the structures\/ the design visible we can navigate differently.<\/p>\n

We have the agency to play.
\nWe can unlearn our predetermined navigation patterns.
\nWe explore our new common reality.<\/p>\n

We act.
\nWe practise,
\nWe learn,
\nwe unlearn.
\nWe empathise.
\nSometimes
\nwe shake our heads and move on.<\/p>\n

Joseph B said we all are artists.
\nAn artistic potential is within us. To be explored and developed.<\/p>\n

He said art equals capital.<\/p>\n

All is co-creation.
\nThe beauty of larp lies in that fact.<\/p>\n

Art is ungovernable.
\nIt is the counterpart of the capitalist growth. Of the society based on greed.
\nThe aesthetic potential is the contrast. The riot.
\nSlowness and attention are the resistance.<\/p>\n

These cracks or small diversions or interventions we experience in the realm of larp seeps into the everyday \/ outside \/or what they call The Reality.<\/p>\n

We can create a Now of immediate perception- one that fosters empathy and sensibility. Degrowth and consciousness.<\/p>\n

We need to practise.
\nTo explore our inherent artistic potential.<\/p>\n

It lives within us and we search for the release.
\nNo one can take our creative force away.
\nIt is our everyday.
\nOur politics.<\/p>\n

It is the lives we live.<\/p>\n

It is always now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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