Liquid Dependencies (LARP)

Liquid Dependencies (LARP)

from 14PM to 18PM on 06.06.26 at

Stroom Den Haag

[REGISTRATION NOTE: There are limited spots available for this gathering. If you are unable to attend, kindly cancel your registration. Someone else will be able to take part then. Thank you for your understanding.]

Liquid Dependencies is a live action role-playing (LARP) game in which players build life in decentralised caring society based on long-term mutual aid support infrastructures. This game is in an invitation to explore alternative systems that we can rely on, to imagine rules of society that are truly by and for its people.

If we were to rehearse together a society based on kinship; where radical care guides actions, what kind of worlding possibilities would become visible? Can we create an environment where all people can have the time, energy and financial resources to take of themselves as well as the people around them?

During the game, players are assigned roles that they must embody using their personal experiences. Over the course of 4-5 hours, you will move through 20 to 30 years of shared life with various individual, relational and societal challenges.

About the artist: Yin Aiwen is an artist, designer, researcher, and occasional institutional strategist. Departing from the idea that “the technological is institutional, the institutional is technological”, Yin reconsiders and reimagines the socio-economic, cultural, emotional, and bodily conditions, etc. by designing the new techno-institutional around care ethics. Her work often begins with ambitious speculative questions and uses critical theory as a design brief to create new systems of value through different forms of demonstrations, such as a performance, a game, a digital platform, or an exhibition.

YIN teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Master Institute of Visual Cultures, the Netherlands. She is an Asymmetry scholar conducting PhD research at the Advanced Practices program at Goldsmiths, University of London. She founded and directed Stichting NextKin which researches and develops future-proof social support systems based on long-term mutual caring relationships. In 2019, Yin received the INFORM prize for Conceptual Design for her work.

Access Notes: The space can be accessed with mobility aids and has an accessible bathroom. The session is in English, and you are welcome to use other languages. Assistants and support persons are welcome. There will be around max. 12 active participants in the game.

[Note: The game is developed based on the multi-year research & design project ReUnion Network, a trans-local care system for chosen families and mutual-aid communities.

This LARP is part of the public program Permission to Dream and is under Stroom Den Haag’s Program Line Networks of Embodiment.]

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