⋆ NOVA - feminist speculative LARP by Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalska,
and Vanja Smiljanić
Designed
for feminist and queer activists, the game invites
participants to collectively imagine and improvise a piece of
feminist political fiction — a future world free from
patriarchal oppression.
Due to a structural imbalance of forces, grassroots
initiatives are often limited to a reactive position. Fighting
against attacks upon their organisations and for the survival
of their activities, they are often left with the feeling of
being one step behind. Creating a speculative space allows
the participants to share survival strategies, exercise
solidarity and intersectionality, create solidarity networks
and form new alliances between different emancipatory
movements free from the sometimes suffocating weight of
present conditions and structures.
The game welcomed 20 queer and feminist activists,
designers, and performers. I contributed as a LARP (Live Action Role Playing) performer, a trickster character called Jeans, who actively engaged in and stirred up the collaborative narrative and world-building process.
Commissioned by VBKÖ and
Kunsthalle Wien, hosted at
Museum Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany