Friday, October 18, 2024

10 am, Room 5X

Designed by Jana Romanova, artist specialising in LARP* and photography (www.janaromanova.com).

This role playing game is an invitation to reflect on how family memory and family identity is constructed through photographs and how family archives are constructed, preserved, forgotten or displaced. In “The Broken Archive” you are invited to collectively narrate a story of a family based on the pieces of torn-apart family archives. By selecting and touching photographs you will access the memory of the situation right before the image was created. During the play you’ll be recreating those memories to understand what led to the archive being destroyed in a hope to understand human nature a bit better.

We will start with a workshop part to learn the rules and characters and warm up, and will finish after the game with sharing our impressions. No prior experience in either role-play games or archive research is needed. You only need to bring your curiosity with you.

*Live-Action Role-Playing game (or LARP) is a social game in which participants portray fictional characters and build relationships with other characters on their behalf. LARPs are a method of co-creating narratives together and living through experiences we would not have in our daily lives

This co-curricular activity is an integral part of the courses F2424 Understanding and Analyzing Photography in the Humanities and F2425 Memory, Identity and Fantasy in private Photography and is therefore strongly recommended for enrolled students. However, note that enrolled students must confirm their participation by signing up on the list by Wednesday, October 16, 12 pm, at the Front Office.

Some places can be available to interested non enrolled students.