LARPing Towards a Plurality of Knowledges – generating Knowledge in Ephemeral Play
LARP, an acronym for live-action role-play, is a form of participatory media, collaborative world-building, or a simulation model of a temporary society. In LARP, players temporarily embody fictional characters, feeling what they feel, thinking as they would think, and acting as they would act. Much like sacred play in ancient traditions, LARPing becomes a vessel for producing knowledge. Just as the oracle speaks in riddles, LARP reveals truths not through concrete facts but through embodied experiences that challenge the notion of one’s own experience as universal. In my research, I have explored the challenges of accessibility and documentation for the knowledge produced through LARPing, and ways to preserve and share the prophecies of alternative realities.

Rietlanden Women’s Office

Rietlanden Women’s Office (rietlanden.womensoffice.nl) teaches Typography in the Graphic Design Bachelor and are also visiting tutors in Book Design at the Master Artistic Research.

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On Assemblage

What you are holding in your hands now is an assemblage in an assemblage, a multiplicity of assemblages emerging from the heterogeneity of my artistic practice…

Taking my exhibition Leftovers at W139 in 2023 as a departure point, I aim to reflect upon my intuitive, artistic practice as a meta-author and situate it in the broader context using theoretical and auto-ethnographic methods. I focus on philosophical, spatial, ecological, spiritual and artistic propositions connected to exhibition-making and assemblage in the Deleuzian sense. Assemblage, from the Middle French “assembler"- to bring together, is a dynamic constellation and involves constantly transforming heterogeneous elements. Assemblage is not a static structure but a fluid network of relationships between people, objects, ideas, and more, assembled temporarily to produce new forms, meanings and possibilities.

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The Dialogue as a Research Method

The essay by Maarten Cornel investigates what philosophical aspects could to be considered in preparing a dialogue session. Next to that, it reflects on the different methods that have been tested during the research and earlier sessions at the graphic design department of KABK and other European institutions. One of the central terms is the ‘Parrhesia’ having the courage to speak your truth openly. What are preconditions that need to be considered in stimulating and facilitating this? And how can the shifting dynamics of a dialogue contribute to group and community building? People have moods and experiences and bring that to a dialogue, and these predispositions should be taken into account and can even be a motivation for collective analysis and development. The form of a dialogue also should be considered in relation to the subject(s) at hand.

Beyond Language

Ingrid Grünwald wrote a manifest to create awareness about the use of the English language in an international Art Academy. Can we find connection in silence, how important are our listening skills? Where is the space to connect? Are we aware that the language we grew up in is part of the perception of our world? How do we create meaning in communication. How are we dealing with closed and open networks? Are we allowed to use our own language even if this is according to the colonial cannon not a "proper" language (pidginization)? On all these topics Ingrid brings to the table examples from literature and her 6 years of English Clubs in the Graphic Design Department. This research is part of the Dialogue as Research Method.

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