The University of Greenwich and ZU-UK Brazil launch
The University of Greenwich and ZU-UK's Larpocracy activity programme has officially launched across Brazil, with Professor Jorge Lopes Ramos recently visiting several locations.
Jorge hosted demonstrations and discussions with artists, researchers, and activists in Belém, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, including Luiz Falcão and Leandro Godoy from Confraria das Idéias. Starting in early February and returning to the UK on February 24, the connections made will have a lasting connection to Larpocracy for the duration of the project and hopefully beyond.
Jorge also spoke at LUME/UNICAMP's 14th Symposium alongside artists Tania El Khoury & Elton Panamby, discussing spaces of intimacy and participation.
This initial research activity builds on ZU-UK's research in Brazil over the past two decades. It focuses on how larp research can reduce barriers to participation and support the role of local Belém artists at COP30.
It also included the first role out of ZU-UK’s successful interactive part game, part radio show Radio Ghost, in Portuguese. Radio Ghost is an audio-driven, walking game for three players in a shopping centre. It was the winner of The Lumen Prize Interactive Award 2022.
In Radio Ghost, you are a ghost hunter, broadcasting your journey as you pass through portals into the far-away dimensions of a haunted Mall.
The Guardian ★★★★
“Radio Ghost makes the familiar strange. The more so as the beat slows – and some more. We slacken our pace, relax our shoulders and come to a standstill. It feels like an act of resistance.”
