LARP

Vulnerability, questioning and experimentation in relation to modes of production

This workshop stems from my own artistic research and teaching experience at NKFS. As a hovedveileder I experience that students often do not have an insight to their teachers artistic practice. With this workshop I attempt to share my artistic research with the students through a practical workshop. My current artistic work is centered on LARP and I have designed a LARP for the students to play. (LARP = Live Action Role Play). The aim is to create an environment embracing vulnerability, questioning and experimentation.

The overall aim is for the students to see and experience how artistic methods are developed according to questions and challenges in a practice and in relation to modes of production. The workshop seeks to challenge norms and preconceived ideas of how to make work, to gain awareness of working collaboratively and in teams – and to underline the importance of play as part of the work.

The first part of the workshop serves as an introduction to the theoretical, emotional and research based framework for LARP. Through an artist talk, podcasts, text-reading and discussion groups we will venture into questions around LARP. Topics we will address are the role of emotionality in artistic work, and quest to develop your own artistic methods.

The second part of the workshop is practical, and we will play a LARP called The Crit designed for the workshop. An important part of this is to create/build on a character they themselves play. This will bring the students into a situation where they will themselves play and gain hands-on practice with the experimentation with artistic methods.

During the weekend I have curated a film festival screening films relating to the topic of the workshop. Together we will watch films and have discussion groups reflecting on the films.

We will use the black box, the cinema, classrooms and the cantina.

Sille Storihle is teacher and main-tutor (hovedveileder) at NKFS. Her artistic practice is research-based and primarily takes form in publications, happenings and films. Her central areas of interest include gender politics, nationalism and history. With Liv Bugge, she runs FRANK, a platform to build community, show contemporary art and generate discussions addressing hegemonic structures in society relating to gender, sexuality and desire. Her artistic and curatorial projects have been shown at Kunsthall Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Performa Biennial, Malmö Konstmuseum, The Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art and The Gothenburg Biennial.