Author: GW
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Goddess of Night (Nattens gudinna) documenation
This winter I did a participatory theatre piece with Nyxxx at Uppsala Stadsteater. I did conceptual work and wrote the script with Tova Gerge and support from the rest of the team. Furthermore I had responsibility for directing the wonderful actors Mira Andersson, Ellen Norlund and Francisci Sobrado. This was a first for me. It’s…
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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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Nytt scenkonstverk: Nattens gudinna på Uppsala stadsteater
Öppna dina händer. Släpp taget och följ med. Händerna är den kroppsdel som först sträcks ut mot det okända, som gör världen begriplig och påtaglig. De står för handlande och mjuk beröring, de ingriper i världen och griper tag om en annan hand. Händer förbinder. I en nyskapande och interaktiv föreställning skapar publiken en gemensam…
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Morgondagens konstpublik, workshop i Norrköping & Vånga 6-7 oktober
Jag håller workshop 6 oktober. Öppen för envar. Lek: improvisation eller undersökning? – Morgondagens konstpublik höstmöte 2016, Norrköping och Vånga 6-7 oktober Välkomna till Morgondagens konstpubliks andra höstmöte i Östergötland 6-7 oktober. Under mötet kommer vi att undersöka hur barn och ungdomars lek och undersökande förhåller sig till deras lärande processer för att bättre förstå…
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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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Tactical Meditations, new Nyxxx piece on tour
My collective Nyxxx has created a new piece which is currently on tour. The 9 shows in Stockholm were sold-out. And it was exciting to meat the young and engaged audience. The work is more open and improvisatory than our previous avatar shows and we guide the audience through a series of exercises, meditating on…
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JOIN – The Rhythm of a Joint Venture
I föreställningen JOIN får du chans att göra ett besök på Corpus, ett företag i den globala ekonomins absoluta framkant. Corpus är ett nätverk av medarbetare som reser över världen i olika ärenden – det finns inga fasta yrkesroller, bara tillfälliga uppdrag. Nya arbetsgrupper sätts samman och bryts upp i ett högt tempo: switch, ny…
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Knudepunkt 2015 Keynote on bodies in live action role-play
Transcription of a talk given at Knudepunkt 2015, February 14th. Immersion is the excrement of action I have been asked to do this talk on the subject of bodies in live action role-playing, which I’m very happy about since the body has turned centre stage in larp development and design. I have previously together with…
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I’m back…
My web history and life and former blog at Interacting Arts went off-line. I tried to import the content to this site but all the images are gone and there is probably plenty of dead links and bugs et c. I lost everything I published 2014 in the process. Maybe I’ll make up for that…
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Notes on Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man from an interaction design pow
Visiting London I took the oppurtunity to go to Punchdrunk’s epic show The Drowned Man which encompass some 20.000 sqm on 4 floors, 30 actors, a bar, et c. I will not summarise the whole experience here, there is plenty of reviews to read online. What I want to do is to share some thoughts…