Balenciaga Winter 19

Romantic- Real-Life Role Play (?)

Balenciaga Winter 19 Campaign Over two days five real couples were interviewed and experimented with role play to explore their current and past relationships. Video by Ed Fornieles Role Play Mechanics by Ed Fornieles and Nina Runa Essendrop.

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Human Experience 

©️Rob van Hoorn – Nina Runa Essendrop at Marres training-the-senses-human-experience/

Human Experience  – Nina Runa Essendrop

Medium: LARP

Human Experience is a physical, immersive live action role play (LARP) about the sensations we get from movement, touch and sensory experience. The LARP is played by two groups. One group is called Ancient Consciousnesses. They are floating minds that have existed in our world forever and understand basic concepts (like the concept of a human or a flower), but they have never tried to be physically in contact with anything. For the duration of the play, they materialize into human bodies in order to carefully experience the nuances in the way humans move and sense and to try to understand what it is like to be human and experience through a body.

This is where the second group enters the story. This group consists of the audience that is part of the fiction of the LARP. They are there to aid the Ancient Consciousnesses in their exploration by showing movements or describing sensations to them. The purpose of this LARP is to create a sensory awareness of what it is to experience everything anew.

[source: Marres.org ]