Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects, ideas and design practice from the Nordic and collaborative traditions of live action roleplaying.
Last night a packed room at Huset in Copenhagen and vibrant a crowd on the live-stream watched Nordic Larp Talks 2011.
Photo: Larson Kasper
We would like to give a final big hand of applause to our fantastic speakers. Your speeches were awesome and we salute you.
Also we are so grateful for the production team from Knudepunkt 2011; Nynne Søs Rasmussen, Anders Berner, Jens Niros, Juliane Mikkelsen, Kristoffer Thurøe, the people at Huset i Magstræde, SocialVideo Production for the live-streaming and all others who made this event possible!
You can watch the stream in full in the player below for now, but in the following weeks will will post the individual speaks here at the Nordic Larp Talks site complete with links and references.
On Games: Painting Life With Rules (starts at 02:15) Johanna Koljonen
Playing With Personal Development(starts at 12:00) Bjarke Pedersen
Fabricating Madness(starts at 22:00) Peter Schønnemann Andreasen
Role-Playing as a Teaching Method(starts at 34:55) Sanne Harder
Horror and Tragedy in Nordic Role-Playing (starts at 45:55) Markus Montola
Not Another Story About Boy Meets Girl(starts at 54:15) Tor Ketil Edland
Can Playing Games Teach Us About War?(starts at 1:05:25) Eirik Fatland
Documenting the Nordic Larp Scene(starts at 1:20:42) Panel: Johanna Koljonen & Jaakko Stenros
The Nordic Larp book presents 30 outstanding larps with stories told by designers, players and researchers. It is presented with over 250 photographs and also contains two essays about the history and rhetorics of Nordic larp, and it’s current relation to theatre, art and games. We held a talkshow about the book with critic Johanna Koljonen and book producer Anna Westerling during the release parties held simultaneously in Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki.
The live talkshow was broadcasted on the 22nd December 2010 during the release parties of the Nordic Larp book. Host was writer and critic Johanna ‘Joc’ Koljonen.
Guests: Jaakko Stenros – Book editor, Finland Markus Montola – Book editor, Finland Erlend Eidsem Hansen – Chapter author, Norway Bjarke Pedersen – Chapter author, Denmark Anna Westerling – Book producer, Sweden
Buy your copy of the book at the webshop Fealivia.se
“Nordic Larp is a rare and vivid glimpse into a fascinating gaming tradition. If anyone knows how to imagine better worlds and build a more engaging reality, it’s larpers.” – Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
“Now evolved far from its roots in genre consumption and modification, the progressive Nordic live roleplaying scene is building the tools for participatory performance that artists internationally will be using for generations to come. Nordic Larp is the first book to put the community’s key pieces in one easily digestible and visually seductive format.” – Brody Condon, Artist
“The rise of the ars ludorum is not confined to the bombastic power fantasies of the videogame but is manifest all over the globe in diverse ways, from the doujin games of Japan to the passionate intensity of the indie games movement to the rise of the Euro-style board game. Not least among these movements is larp, brought to its apotheosis in the Nordic countries, where vast, imaginative works of enormous artistic ambition receive attention not only from game geeks but from their national cultures as well. This vital phenomenon is now accessible to English speakers through this landmark work, an anthology of articles describing some of the most impressive and compelling works of the form. Anyone seriously interested in role-play, interactive narrative, and the collision between games and theater will find it of enormous interest.” – Greg Costikyan, Game Designer
