MetaLARP

Larp is Art

We firmly believe in larp as an art form. It has a direct connection to our lives – people are only fully human where they play, as Schiller said. Larp is heterotopia – utopia that has found its home. It is an immediate otherwhere. Larp confronts its participants with their emotions, with the experience of the self and the other. We see larp as avant-garde, as an antagonistic form of experience, as a spontaneous, collective artistic expression. This does not mean, however, that all larps are art.

In Larp we Trust

We firmly believe in a mutual, unbiased relationship of trust between the organisers and the players. We ask our players to trust us without prejudice and hesitation, even if our approach sometimes requires a lack of transparency or secrecy. After all, we have a common interest: the game’s success..

Play Unsafe

Reality is a dangerous place, so we spend our whole lives developing routines and building fortresses against all the possible risks of life in the form of habit and consensus. Larps can break these self-imposed barriers, challenge our comfort zones and show us ways to temporarily leave them. They are acts of negotiation with reality because they target and question our weaknesses. They lay siege to our habitual strongholds. We do not play to confirm the familiar, but to venture out into the open, to experience the abyss and diversity, to stand on the edge of the abyss and be what we are (not).

For Well you Know that it’s a Fool
Who Plays it Cool

We want to create UGOs, ‚Unknown Game Objects‘, venture into crossovers and experiment with genres and narrative techniques. We not only firmly believe that larp can explore any topic, but also that there is an almost infinite range of means at our disposal. We want to mix literature, music, theatre, visual arts and new media. We want to use the power of storytelling without any obligations and in a completely unorthodox way.

Larp pour Larp

We play neither for the sake of winning nor for the sake of losing. We play for the sake of play. We were all able to do this as children, but in an ever increasingly capitalist world, it is difficult to remember this ability. We have nothing to make, nothing to prove, no one to please and no one to answer to. We just want to keep playing.

No Customer Service

Larp is neither a movie nor a play. It’s also not a Netflix series that you can watch from the comfort of your cosy TV chair. No one will entertain you, and there is no such thing as a passive audience, only co-authors. Don’t wait for something to happen, but be the stone that sets the avalanche in motion. The „I want to get something for my money“ approach doesn’t work for us. We are all partners in crime, there are no customers. The more you contribute to the game, the more you get back. Larp is not a celebratory dinner and must not degenerate into one.