We are delighted to announce that Arne Vogelgesang’s groundbreaking desktop documentary/performance THIS IS NOT A GAME will be featured at MMF MMXXII
Alternate Reality Games (ARG) combine reality and fiction in interesting and startling ways. Based on interactive structures, ARGs incorporate a very wide range of media, and generate a strong compulsive effect on the players who (help) shape the game by researching and exchanging information. ARGs use the individual lives of the players as their true gaming platform, thus forming active and enduring communities. What has this got to do with QAnon? Since this myth, which has also established itself as a brand, became widespread, numerous observers have pointed out how it operates on similar principles to Larping (Live Action Role Playing). In QAnon one can find elements of both LARPs and ARGs combining to create a new form. Arne Vogelgesang guides us through stories that shape reality and examines the growth of QAnon primarily in the context of the evolution of US politics.
Arne Vogelgesang is a director and founder-member of the theater label internil. He has created freelance theater work under this and other names since 2005, experimenting with a various composites of documentary material, new media and performance. Key themes in his work include political radicalization, deviant practices and the digitization of what is human. He also works as a video artist and in cultural education, publishes literary texts and presents lectures and workshops on the aesthetics of radical internet propaganda.
This program is presented by GAME OVER: CRITICA DELLA RAGIONE VIDEOLUDICA (2020)
Watch an excerpt below: