{"id":154,"date":"2009-08-31T23:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larpwright.efatland.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2017-09-14T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T07:29:39","slug":"documentation-sonnsbeeklive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larpwright.efatland.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Documentation: SonsbeekLive"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you get when you add an American sculptor to a Danish larpwright to a bunch of Dutch larpers, and mix it all with an art festival audience? The answer, it seems, is SonsbeekLive<\/a>, a series of six three-day larps held sequentially in the summer of 2008, mixing the fantasy-larp esthetic with modern sculpture and a tad of Nordic-style larp ritualizing. The larp was produced as a collaboration between Danish larpwright Bjarke Pedersen and the US sculptor Brody Condon<\/a>, with the central scenography (a white tower, home to the characters) designed by Condon. The other artworks of the Sonsbeek<\/a> exhibition were also assigned significance in the larp and treated as scenography by the larpers.<\/p>\n

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Plenty of interesting things to learn from the documentation<\/a>: Condon’s tower, of course, is truly inspirational and shows a potential third path for fantasy-larp scenography, an alternative to both crappy-looking symbolism (rope = city wall) and work-intensive authenticity (100 volunteers and 5000 stones = city wall). <\/p>\n

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Also notice how SonsbeekLive<\/em> solved the problem of integrating a non-playing audience: to player characters, the audience were invading spirits that ought to be chased away with mirrors and chanting. While players and audience did not co-exist in the same reality, this notion allowed the larpers to be interpreted as performers by the audience and the audience to have a diegetic significance to the larpers. Judging by the documentation video, it seemed to work well for the audience. I’m curious how this worked for the players.<\/p>\n

Rumour has it that Condon & Pedersen are taking their collaboration to the US for 2010. I hope that next time, Bjarke will do us the favour of spreading the rumor in advance, as opposed to casually dropping the url to his facebook account – only on request – a year later… there is such a thing as too much humility. The people Demand to Know about cool larps being held!