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Community Building as a Coping Mechanism
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. Sometimes we wonder, is larp escapism? Does it have to be? Carnelian speaks about his work with Monstrous Immersive in creating a community in Berlin specifically tailored to be a safer space for neurodivergent queers, and share thoughts about what he learned from
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Joy – Larp and Resistance
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. Larp has a role to play in times of crisis. US designer Lizzie Stark discusses how Six of Hounds, her design collab with Jason Morningstar, has responded to urgent world events.
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Wrestling with Bleed-in of the Self
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. When you larp, you are you. It sounds obvious, but how often do we really think about what that really means for the characters we play, and for our larp experience? In this talk, based on the ideas of Anne Marchadier, Mo Holkar
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What Medieval Spirituality Taught Me About Intimacy in Larp
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. What’s at stake in admitting that we are nothing but relationships? This talk explores how religious communities from the Middle Ages and their writings about spiritual intimacy can reimagine how we think about intimacy larp. The talk dips our into bodies in ecstasy,
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Larp in Wartime: Palestine
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. In 2024, the Palestinian larp organisation Bait Byout ran its Larp Factory training programme in social impact larp design and game design for 43 young adults aged 18-30 from the West Bank and Jerusalem. In this conversation with Johanna Koljonen, Tamara Nassar discusses
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How to Make Larp at the End of the World
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This video was recorded during the 2025 Nordic Larp Talks, in Oslo. Larp as artistic research is a small but exciting field. This talk offers insights from such work and makes some suggestions about what the field of art as research can offer larp. In addition to existing structures to guide larp documentation and collaboration
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Website Update 2025
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Nordiclarp.org has been updated to modern software and moved to new, faster and better hosting. Bare with issues & report feedback to us.
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Performance and Audience in Larp
“When we larp, some of the time we are in a performing role, and some of the time in an audience role. And that is ok! It’s the same in real life, after all. We shouldn’t see this as larp falling short of an aesthetic ideal in which such concepts don’t apply. Larp doesn’t have…
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Emotionally Pacing for Larps – How To Get the Best Rollercoaster Ride
“Pace yourself and pace your design. Intense emotional experiences become more available to you and more sustainable if you have variety to the intensity of your play, both as a designer and as an individual player.”
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The Art-Larp Paradox
“In adapting larp practices to be suitable for artistic spaces and audiences, embodiment, and player agency is susceptible to compromise – potentially sacrificing the artistic essence of larp itself,” says Alex Brown.