NOVA. A Feminist Speculative LARP

NOVA is a feminist speculative LARP (Live Action Role Playing) game written by Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalska and Vanja Smiljanić and developed especially with/for feminist and queer activists. The participants are invited to collectively improvise and create a piece of feminist political fiction - a future world free of patriarchal oppression. Due to a structural imbalance of forces, grassroots initiatives are often limited to a reactive position. Fighting against attacks upon their organisations and for the survival of their activities, they are often left with the feeling of being one step behind. Creating a speculative space allows the participants to share survival strategies, exercise solidarity and intersectionality, create solidarity networks and form new alliances between different emancipatory movements free from the sometimes suffocating weight of present conditions and structures. 

NOVA is a multitude of newly formed, radically inclusive, self-governing communities that are heterogeneous in their forms of coexistence and social organization.
NOVA has set itself the goal of never again allowing oppression in any form to arise.
We would therefore like to invite especially queer and feminist activists to participate in NOVA. 
Future thoughts on surviving together - an afternoon of speculative games aimed at sharing survival strategies, practicing solidarity and intersectionality, strengthening networks and building new alliances between different emancipatory movements. Together we propose to create a piece of political fiction in which we collectively dream and narrate a world free from patriarchal and other oppressions.

The game is open to 20 players. The language of the game will be English.

NOVA is a collaborative project by Alicja Rogalska, Ana de Almeida and Vanja Smiljanić, originally commissioned by VBKÖ and Kunsthalle Wien.