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Alex Brown is an artist, larp designer and organiser from England, living in Oslo. His work often takes the form of co-created experiences, through Nordic larp or playful urban interventions.
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Larp design &
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Through the forms of Nordic style larp and Situationist play, I am challenging cultural spectatorship, prioritising participants social agency and a total embodiment of the work. I often use movement and the sensory experience to inquire into non-human perspectives, utopic thinking, magic, and climate justice, in my work.
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Nordic style larp |
Situationist play |
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Larp stands for live action role play but it used as a standalone term. Nordic larp refers to a genre of larp originating in the Nordic countries which prioritises the playing experience, through narrative, emotions and techniques, often exploring social or political themes. Its a collaborative form of improvised storytelling with parallels to improvised theatre, yet it is performed without an audience, or a subjective audience of one.
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Situationist play begins with the movement of psychogeography, a pseudo-scientific mapping of emotions relating to physical urban space. It is performative without being a performance, only the subject realises the interaction with public space and the associated emotions and episodes of serendipity attached. Through the deconstruction of socially constructed realities, it becomes a space for new worlds to exist.
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