Author: James Lórien Macdonald
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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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Beyond Cracking Eggs
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Larp made me trans; what next? A conversation between four larpers whose eggs cracked a long time ago.
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Beauty in Larp
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What makes a thing beautiful to do? In this text Jaakko Stenros and James Lórien MacDonald explore a general aesthetic theory for larp.
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Ensemble Play
This article draws insights from different ensemble-driven art forms, and demonstrate how ensemble skills facilitate better play in larp.
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On Publicity and Privacy – or: How Do You Do Your Documentation?
In 2014, I conducted a survey about attitudes towards photography and video in larp. I got nearly 500 responses from many different countries, and while I would love to publish the full results here, they’re a bit long for the scope of this KP book. The numbers are available at ars-amandi.se instead, and they’re really