Mobilized: an essay pretending to be a game

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 12-60 players

By

✏️	Nea Landin
✏️	Gabriel Widing
	Scott Cazan (Sound design)

Description

“Some would say that we have already completed a forbidden experiment, using ourselves as subjects with no controls, and the unhappy findings are in: we are connected as we’ve never been before, and we seem to have damaged ourselves in the process.” – Sherry Turkle in Alone Together

This scenario explores power, mobile use, social media, avatar bodies and collective movement. The participant’s bodies and imaginations shape a kind of choreography as their phones guide them through the constructed reality of the game. It is also an experiment of lowering the tresholds of participation by giving over some of the responsibilities at play to algorithms, chance and technology. At times it might remind you more of an anonymous chat room or a weird MMO than a larp.

No prior knowledge required, just your charged smartphone!

Mobilized: An Essay Pretending to Be a Game has been supported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, DansPlats Skog, Site Sweden, Inter Arts Center, and Nyxxx.

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