Marooning Bodies Immersive World-Building Game Play
About this Event
What if you could sit down with strangers and design the kind of world you actually want to live in? Feminist Center for Creative Work is partnering with City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs and Marooning Bodies to host a gameplay session of Marooning Bodies, an immersive world-building game where communities come together to imagine new ways of living, caring for one another, and responding to challenges collectively.
Come as you are. Bring a friend. Leave having built a world with strangers.
What to expect
Attendees will be divided into groups, and players will be guided through a series of questions and scenarios about how a society might organize itself. Together, you will make decisions about shared resources, community rituals, responses to harm, and systems of care. Along the way, you will be invited to reflect, discuss, and create through simple writing, drawing, movement, or storytelling prompts. At the end of the game, each of the groups will share their experience and outcomes with each other.
This is not a performance and not a lecture. It is a facilitated, participatory experience designed to be welcoming to everyone. No art or game experience is required. Just bring your curiosity and willingness to imagine!
About the game
Marooning Bodies is a game that has been in development for four years and has been play-tested internationally in Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, and across North America, including at USC, CSU East Bay, National Sawdust Creative Forum in New York City, the Women and Dance Leadership Conference in Los Angeles, and Norco Pr*son. Over the course of its run, the game has generated collections of poetry, paintings, creation stories, a perfume series, dance rituals, and even academic dissertations.
This program is funded through the Recreation & Arts Department Art of Recovery Program.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mims is the founder of Marooning Bodies, and an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles. Her work moves across performance art, advocacy, public art, social practice, and fine art objects. She experiences the body as a site of liberation and approaches it as her first place of inquiry. Through an ongoing exploration of relationship between self, others, land, and more than human life, Mims grounds her practice in embodied knowing. She is deeply interested in questioning as a tool for collective understanding, the role of interpersonal relationships in building healthy communities, and the sacred wisdom held in cultures and ecosystems around the world. https://www.marooningbodies.com/
ABOUT FEMINIST CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK
Feminist Center for Creative Work in a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that nurtures feminist and queer creative practices through ever-evolving collaborations, modeling, and resourcing the conditions for liberatory futures to take root and grow. At their space in North East L.A. they host Artist in Residence and Writer in Residence programs, mount exhibitions and special projects, present community events, and publish books through Co–Conspirator Press. Find out more at fccwla.org
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