Luminescence

Luminescence, also known as "The Flour Larp", was a four-hour long larp in 2004, in [A Week In Finland] before [Solmukohta 2004]. Luminescence is a game about cancer patients in music therapy. They all all going to die and attempt to come to terms with this fact. The players are semi-naked in a roomful of flour, which has been defined as ”normal” within the game.

Techniques

• Pre-larp Workshop
• Soundtrack
• Pre-written characters
• Must touch when speaking
• Rule of Normality
• Symbolic scenography

Documentation

Articles

Luminescense has been written on extensively by Juhana Pettersson and Mike Pohjola, often including player comments.

– Juhana Pettersson: The Kingdom of Flour, a description of the game for the rpg.net column No Good.

– Mike Pohjola: School of Flour ([knutepunkt.laiv.org/kp05/School%20of%20Flour.pdf PDF]), Developing methodology through eight experimental larps, in [Dissecting Larp], 2005.

– Juhana Pettersson: Roolipelimanifesti, a non-fiction book about roleplaying (Like, 2005).

– Juhana Pettersson: The Age of Indulgence, an article in [Playground Worlds], 2008.

– An article on the larp in [Nordic Larp (Book)] by Juhana Pettersson.

Video Documentation

Video footage from the larp:

External links

Juhana Pettersson's artistic statement: http://www.juhanapettersson.com/works/luminescence/

Production

• Solmukohta 2004