DIM - A Transformation Game by Áron Birtalan. Ontwerp: The Rodina
A Transformation Game by Áron Birtalan
Friday 8 December 2017, 15-20 hrs
Location: CLOUD/Danslab, DCR - De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b, The Hague
Admission: € 7,50 / € 5,- (discount with Ooievaarspas or student pass)
Language spoken: English
Live participatory event on location
Transformation Games is an experimental discipline that attempts to re-imagine the world around us through alternative social models. During the afternoon, participants blend elements of roleplay, rituals and everyday routines into a new, jointly-created experience.
Throughout the game, participants create, experience and learn alternative ways of thinking and interacting, touched by the thematic of Uncertainty Seminars: The Strange Escape. Participants are defined by more and more effective problem-solving skills, stronger empathy, and the acknowledgement and acquirement of different perspectives. By becoming fictional participants in a fictional world, one's real life experience of the world, responsibilities, hierarchies and social dynamics are left behind.
There is no dress-up involved and no fixed roles are adopted - unlike the classic image of Live Action Role Playing (LARP). Instead, a neutral space is the backdrop and participants themselves create the ‘script' based on a rudimentary outline, developed and guided by artist and live game developer Áron Birtalan.
To get an informed view on the background and social and political potential of Live Action Role Playing (LARP), Stroom warmly recommends Paul Graham Raven's article as published on Rhizome: This Is a Game: A (very) Brief History of Larp (2012).
Áron Birtalan
Áron Birtalan is a Hungarian artist who makes games and rituals in everyday environments. Working together with participants and their imagination as an artistic medium, he explores the nature of human interaction by creating collaborative experiences, called 'Transformation Games'. Through his work, Áron encourages people to tap into a playful territory, where art, games and magic mingle. His work draws upon the history of transformation through rites, and as a whole, the role of rituals in society. He currently lives in The Netherlands, running the experimental platform Secret Fiction.
This program is part of Uncertainty Seminars, which in turn is part of the on-going program Attempts to Read the World (Differently), and is generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund and the City of The Hague.
See also related event:
Saturday 9 December 2017, 13-18 hrs
Uncertainty Seminars: The Strange Escape
An afternoon program exploring the deviate potential of doubt. With contributions by Ramon Amaro, Jude Crilly, Johanna Koljonen, The Rodina and more.