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Kaisa Kangas

Kaisa Kangas is a larp creator with nearly 30 years of experience. She is the artistic producer of Immersion Larp Festival. Kaisa is also the editor-in-chief of the Solmukohta books Liminal Encounters (2024) Larp Politics (2016). Her non-fiction book about larp for a general audience will be published in 2025.

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Possible, Impossible Larp Critique

2024-02-12 0 Kaisa Kangas

We have not developed similar institutions of critique as exist in the world of passive art. The larp community seems to rely on hearsay, impressions and publicity materials.

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Playing the Stories of Others

2017-02-18 0 Kaisa Kangas

Larps that treat social issues often aim to create empathy for real people who live in circumstances different from ours by putting us in their shoes.

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Processing Political Larps – Framing Larp Experiences with Strong Agendas

2015-04-08 0 Kaisa Kangas

Thanks to it I turned my communist friend into a patriot. And I realized who I really am. This is how a respondent, according to Mochocki (2012), described the Polish tabletop role-playing game Dzikie Pola (“Wild Planes”) in an online…

Possible, Impossible Larp Critique

Playing the Stories of Others

Processing Political Larps – Framing Larp Experiences with Strong Agendas

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