Worldbuilding session
18 August 2024 | 10.00–14.30 @ Komuna Hall in Kino Šiška, 1000 Ljubljana
As part of ARIA Worlds’ End Symposium you are welcome to join the DIM – a game for sightless minds and curious limbs by our ARIA resident and speaker Áron Birtalan.
DIM is an experimental game in which we as a group create a fictional ecosystem previously unheard of. This ecosystem is a dwelling for creatures, shapes, objects and other curious bodies who move and interact with one-another while never really knowing who or what it is they are encountering. Instead of crafting our world with the control and clarity of a master narrator, we will let our senses, our movement and strange voices from a set of stones take the creative lead. In a way, DIM is a mixture between a role-playing game and a movement class, while also being a parody of both things.
Mentor
Áron Birtalan is an artist, musician, and student of theology, whose work explores languages of pleasure and anguish between angel, creature, and computer. Working with relationships and sense perception as artistic materials, Áron creates guided games, mystical practices, musical releases, unruly thoughts, and hybrid publications. They received their education at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague as well as the DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam, and now pursue doctoral studies at the Stockholm University of the Arts’ Institute for Dance. Their artistic dissertation, Your Bones Hold the Shape of What’s to Come, is due in 2026.
Áron BirtalanHow to apply
The session will last for 4.5 hours, including an introduction, a workshop, breaks, as well as time to land and reflect together as a group. We will partake in exercises that gently challenge the moving and sensing body, so come with clothes you feel comfortable moving around in! You are welcome to join without any previous experience in participatory art, role-playing or movement practice. You are also very welcome to come with different mobility needs. Every activity will be introduced in advance and you are encouraged to find a way of engaging that works best for you.
The experience features breathing exercises, low lighting and long moments of non-verbal interaction. We will guide the experience in English.
Registration at: lara.mejac@gmail.com
Production
Production: Projekt Atol Institute
In collaboration with: Šum journal (Društvo Galerija Boks) & Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture
ARIA residency is organized as part of the More-Than-Planet project, co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework and supported by The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture.