Enjoy this one (1) of three (3) Lightning Talks from the Fall 2021 Town Hall Meeting in the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “Designing for Queer Erotic Adventures” by Hanne Grasmo! Lightning talks are meant to spark conversation in our group discussions at Town Hall events, with the goal of inspiring networking and collaborations.
Content advisory: This talk contains descriptions of sexuality and kink.
Description:
Nordic larp has evolved in just a decade: At least 25 larps with erotic themes at the core of the story have emerged and the vast majority are queer inclusive. How may erotic larping pave a road to transformation, when it come to gender, relationship, and kink? Hanne Grasmo presents some preliminary findings from her first Ph.D. article “Designing for Sexual Arousal in Larp,” which she is writing together with Jaakko Stenros.
Presenter bio:
Hanne Grasmo is a doctoral researcher at Centre of Excellency for Game culture studies,Tampere University. Her PhD research centers around embodied role-play and sexual emotions, both in Nordic larp and in BDSM communities. Focus areas are role-play design, immersion, queer play and transformative play. Both personally and professionally she is interested in exploring borders, edges and unknown possibilities. Grasmo holds a MA in sociology, and have additional background from sexology, education, theatre and larp design. She has discussed and written about larp for more than 20 years, founded the Knutepunkt larp conferences, wrote the first book about Nordic larp (1998) and have recently published a monograph of her well know larp: “Just a Little Lovin’ Larp Script” (2021).