Larp as artistic research is a small but exciting field. This talk offers insights from such work and makes some sugestions about what the field of art as research can offer larp. In addition to existing structures to guide larp documentation and collaboration with other fields, artistic research proposes frameworks for thinking about what kind of knowledge is created when we larp, and how larp can ask questions.
Jamie MacDonald is a larper, comedian, and PhD student from Canada but firmly planted in Helsinki. He curates queer performance spaces, especially in performance genres that are not part of the museum and institutional culture. His thesis concerns emotional labour and affective labour in transgender stand-up comedy, and also takes the form of a stand-up show. He has written several articles about crossovers between larp and theatre and the aesthetics of larp, and in general enjoys poking at ideas and their boundaries.