EXCITE GAME Speaker Series #02: ASSES.MASSES- Games and Performance

ASSES.MASSES: GAMES AND PERFORMANCE FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

With Patrick Blenkarn and Laurel Green

Patrick Blenkarn and Laurel Green are Creative Directors of STUDIO FUNFUG and core artists from the team behind asses.masses, an internationally touring video game for the stage designed to be played live by an audience in a theatre as an epic eight-hour collective journey. Join them for a conversation and inside look at their practice of bridging games and performance to foster civic engagement, democratic collaboration, and social action. Together, Patrick and Laurel will dig into how asses.masses was made, take apart its dramaturgy, and discuss what touring the show internationally for over 50 performances has taught them. They will reflect on the ways in which playing together shapes how we live, work, and build community. 
Q+A to follow. 

ASSES.MASSES AT ICA BOSTON

Don’t miss asses.masses at ICA Boston on February 14 and 21 - tickets are selling fast!

https://www.icaboston.org/events/patrick-blenkarn-and-milton-lim-asses-masses/ 

Instagram: @asses.masses 

Web: assesmasses.work 

STUDIO FUNFUG is a Canadian company dedicated to bridging performance, games, and collective experiences for social transformation. Founded by Patrick Blenkarn, Laurel Green, and Milton Lim, their work includes video games for the stage designed to be played live by an audience in a theatre, tabletop role-playing games that reimagine the arts ecosystem, and trading card games about the art economy. Their upcoming projects include: DRAGONS, a cross-cultural and playful examination of power—for teens, and alt-rhino, a game for the stage, inspired by Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, about the threat of fascism within our communities and how we resist it. www.studiofunfug.ca

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