Event
Yin Aiwen
Liquid Dependencies
Booking opens soon
Join us on 27 June for a live action role-playing (LARP) game as part of the public programme for Unlicensed Goods.
Liquid Dependencies is a LARP game in which players build life in a decentralised caring society based on long-term mutual aid support infrastructures. This game is in an invitation to explore alternative systems that we can rely on, to imagine rules of society that are truly by and for its people.
If we were to rehearse together a society based on kinship, where radical care guides actions, what kind of worlding possibilities would become visible? Can we create an environment where all people can have the time, energy and financial resources to take care of themselves as well as the people around them?
During the game, participants are assigned roles that they must embody using their personal experiences. Over the course of 5 hours, they will move through 20 to 30 years of shared life with various individual, relational and societal challenges.
Various iterations of the game have been developed according to the context of its activation. At YDP, participants will play a newly developed UK version produced by esea contemporary, Manchester.
There will be short breaks between rounds. Complimentary refreshments will be provided.
Header image: Liquid Dependencies, 2022, at Framer Framed, Amsterdam. Photography by Samuel White Evans. Image courtesy of Yin Aiwen.
About the Artist
Yin Aiwen is an artist, designer, researcher, and occasional institutional strategist. Departing from the idea that 'the technological is institutional, the institutional is technological', Yin reconsiders and reimagines the socio-economic, cultural, emotional and bodily conditions, etc. by designing the new techno-institutional around care ethics. Yin teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven and the Master Institute of Visual Cultures, the Netherlands. She is an Asymmetry scholar conducting PhD research at the Advanced Practices program at Goldsmiths, University of London.
