The Limits of Our World

Participants

Anna Westerling is an event manager and game designer who has specialised in mixing larp with other artforms. She has designed larps such as A Nice Evening with the Family, Lovestories by ABBA, Sense and Sensibility, Love and War and Fortune & Felicity. She has produced events such as Stockholm Scenario Festival, Knutpunkt as well as the book Nordic larp. Westerling runs her own PR and Event company and works with creating events and interactive experiences within the games and culture sector, with clients such as Free League Publishing, The Royal Opera, The Swedish Parliament, The National Theatre Company and more.

Simone C Niquille is a designer and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her practice Technoflesh investigates the representation of identity and the digitisation of biomass in the networked space of appearance. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at HeK-Haus der Elektronischen Künste (2020), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2019), La Gaite Lyrique (2019). She has published writing in Volume Magazine, AD Architecture and e-flux. She is Chief Information Officer at Design Academy Eindhoven. Currently she is investigating the architectural and bodily consequences of computer vision, researching the politics of synthetic training datasets.

Sagalinn Tangen is a second generation larper and larp designer. They are especially interested in the meeting of story and embodied experience, as well as the potential of intergenerational storytelling. She has written and designed larps since the age of seventeen, and is currently mostly active in the international Nordic larp scene as a member of the design collective Avalon Larp Studio. Once upon a time, they were an architect student for two years, before moving on to other adventures. Today, she works as a project manager and event coordinator, and majors in literature studies at Uppsala University.

Leon Krosness is a member of the collective Dagfiket at Kafé 44 in Stockholm where he cooks and serves food. When he’s not at the café he is working on musical art project entitled Träet-Mund-Spilli. He has worked at Studiefrämjandet as a larp instructor.

Terry Nguyen is a critic and journalist writing about culture and technology. She is the senior staff writer at Dirt, a daily newsletter and Web3 media company, and previously wrote for The Goods at Vox. Her writing has been published in New York Magazine, Washington Post, Vice, Rolling Stone, among other publications.

Omsk Social Club’s work is created between two lived worlds, one of life as we know it and the other of role play. These worlds bleed into one. That is where Omsk positions their speculative fictions, through these immersive installations they move into a territory they coined in 2017 called Real Game Play (RGP). Their work aims to induce states that could potentially be a fiction or a yet, unlived reality. Omsk works closely with networks of viewers, everything is unique and unrehearsed. The living installations they create examine virtual egos, popular experiences and political phenomena. Allowing the works to become a dematerialized hybrid of modern-day culture alongside the participant’s unique personal experiences. In the past, Omsk Social Club’s ‘Real Game Play’ immersive environments have introduced landscapes and topics such as otherkin, rave culture, survivalism, catfishing, desire&sacrifice, positive trolling, algorithmic strategies and decentralized cryptocurrency.

Trojan Horse is an autonomous educational platform based in Helsinki. Trojan Horse organises summer schools, live-action role-plays, workshops and reading circles exploring the boundaries and preconditions that define the field where architects, designers, and artists operate today. Kaisa Karvinen is a Helsinki-based architect and writer interested in the intersections of performativity, public space and collective unlearning. Kaisa’s practice consists of different forms of constructing and writing, usually in multidisciplinary groups. Tommi Vasko is a Helsinki based graphic designer who writes theoretical and fictional texts about design practices of the near future and about visual phenomena rising between emerging information technologies and ecological thinking.

This event was moderated by Svante Helmbæk Tirén and Alice Shulman.