Ed Fornieles Studios and Omsk Social Club: Absolute Community
Workshop as part of the exhibition “Welt ohne Außen”
Ed Fornieles Studios and Omsk Social Club © the artist
Omsk Social Club and Ed Fornieles Studios develop immersive gaming mutations that combine Live Action Role Play (LARP) with Real Game Play (RGP) to create intensive environments and situations that invite players to leave their regular lives behind for a couple of hours, a day or even extended periods of time to experience alternate realities set within the context of our everyday lives. The games confront and reveal deep individual and collective psychological structures and patterns that condition and shape society.
In this workshop Ed Fornieles and Penny Rafferty give an introduction to progressive character building strategies, offering an insight into the backend of their ongoing work “Absolute Community”.
“Absolute Community” is built on resources you provide for a common good that will go beyond lifestyle choices and rolling deadlines. “Absolute Community” aims to bleed rather than scratch life’s surface. “Absolute Community” is a space built on gaming, addiction and desire – you will become us and we will become you.