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SUMMARY:The Overkill 2024
DESCRIPTION:The Overkill is the playful festival celebrating indie and arthouse games\, interactive arts and alternative films within a cultural and social context. Interdisciplinary\, experimental and international\, The Overkill presents and welcomes game makers\, digital creators and playful artists from all over the world. Following a theme\, the festival tells a story\, connecting one piece to another and inviting visitors to engage into multiple worlds. \nThe festival explores its theme through the multiple voices of the artists presented and creates a space for the public to react and engage with one another. The festival presents immersive and interactive exhibitions\, film screenings\, a selection of workshops and talks and live performances. The festival is a space to play\, meet\, experience\, share and collaborate. \nThe Overkill 2024 is curated by Marie Janin and Aike Lütkemöller from Sickhouse alongside playful curator Zuraida Buter and artist researcher Erik Peters. \nTheme 2024: \nRadical Joy Resistance \nTriggered by a feeling of powerlessness in a world that seems wrapped in violence\, The Overkill festival is looking into the role of play within activism\, the place joy can take in times of great crisis and the power of pleasure in movement of resistance. The festival is wondering what are the (digital) tools\, the (virtual) places\, the encounters\, the (online) gatherings we can create to give each other courage and build new lines of defence. The program will create room for the voices that we don’t hear\, open its space for listening\, to speak up\, to share and try together.\nThe Overkill invites playful artists to engage with us in the troubles and help us activate disruptive movements\, may it be small\, loud\, temporary or transformative. \n—- \nThe Overkill festival takes place over several locations : \nPerformance factory\, Hall Zuid : Hoge Bothofstraat 39F\, 7511 ZA Enschede\nBlackBrick : Hoge Bothofstraat 31F\, 7511ZA Enschede (not yet on google maps)\nConcordia : Langestraat 56\, 7511 HC Enschede(film program of Friday and Saturday)\nVestzak theater : Walstraat 35\, 7511 GG Enschede(Playful Friday) \nWednesday 20 : Secret Gathering (on invite\, for participants and volunteers only)\nThursday 21 : Expo open + Official opening\nFriday 22 : Expo + Playful Friday with talks and workshops for students & professionals\nSaturday & Sunday 23 & 24 : Expo + activities for everyone \nProgram: \nExpo: \n\nFrom the Main Square – Pedro Harris\nNew Suns – Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou\nBetween – Claire Kwong\nDance Poem Revolution – Melanie Hoff\nharri kanta – Juliette Lizotte\nJoystick – Madison Bycroft\nMbombo: Dream Echoes – Sondi\nViolent Violins exposed – Babak Ahteshamipour\nClaiming Space – Questions Collective\nCasual Games for Protesters – Molleindustria & Harry Josephine Giles\nMarch Together – Simona Marioano\nPerfect World – Michael Overton Brown\nThe Bride Who Could Not Stop Crying – Afrah Shafiq\nThe New York Times Simulator – Molleindustria\nUm Al-Zaytoun – Rafif Kalantan & Ashraf Abi Said\nStatera – Randy Querreveld\, Rick van Leeuwen and Denis Dvorkovyy\nAtuel – Matajuegos\nAnarquia – Alberto Rico – presented by Jugar Juegitos and Resistència Videolúdica\nGay Boy – Paramo.Yermo – presented by Jugar Juegitos and Resistència Videolúdica\nOjancanu –  Dobra Studios – presented by Jugar Juegitos and Resistència Videolúdica\nTo all the rocks that raised me – Carlos Cortés García – presented by Jugar Juegitos and Resistència Videolúdica\nSplit your dirty adventure – Ronia – presented by Jugar Juegitos and Resistència Videolúdica\n\nWorkshops: \n\nConsensual Hacking – Melanie Hoff\nPlaying with the Master’s tool – Noam Yongrak Son\nWindwerk (Wind Works) – Question Collective\nLarping and Player Agency – Jana Romanova\nPlaying Protest Games – Jana Romanova\nZine Creating Session – Nathalie Lawhead\nSickfem\, Having Fun with Synthesizers – Jack Noise\n\nEvents / Performances \n\nOpening: March of Resistance\nResistance or the vindication of a collective right –  LASTESIS\nPulse Friction – RADVLAD\nPlayful Friday Curated by Zuraida Buter – see line-up here.\nUnfolding\, intergalactic yoga – Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy\n\n  \nOpening: \nThis year\, the start of The Overkill is a Happening\, a party\, a manifestation! through movement\, we take over the public space in a playful intervention.\nInspired by silly walks\, street raves\, children games & playful actions. We want to show ourselves\, in all our colours\, joy and diversity. For our voices to be heard. \nThe program starts with a performance from LAS TESIS in front of the city hall/Stadhuis. This sung choreography ‘Resistance\, Or The vindication Of A Collective Right’ is created and performed with a group of local women\, that worked together for 3 intensive days. Following\, we gather togther to march joyfully from the city center to the venue of the festival. Bring something noisy! We will gather in the Perfroamnce Factory\, where the exhibition and the music program are waiting for us after a few words of our curators team. \n18:00 – 19:00 – Performance LASTESIS voor het stadhuis Enschede ; Langestraat 24\, Enschede\n19:00 – 20:00 – March of Resistance van centrum naar Performance Factory (± 1 km)\n20:30 – 21:00 – Opening word at the Performance Factory (Hoge Bothofstraat 39F)\n21:30 to 23:30 – Exhibition & Live music (Galiens Show & Beter Leven) \nTickets
URL:https://www.zo-ii.com/event/overkill-2024/
LOCATION:Performance factory\, Hall Zuid\, Hoge Bothofstraat 39F\, Enschede\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Curating,Europe,Netherlands
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SUMMARY:The Overkill 2024 - Playful Friday
DESCRIPTION:Every year The Overkill hosts the Playful Friday to connect professionals around playful arts with the theme of the year and with each other. \nPlayful Friday – Curated by Zuraida Buter \nCome join us for a day with new friends\, playful and interactive sessions and exciting ideas & Insights. On this second day of the Overkill festival we will dive deeper into the themes of radical joy resistance with perspectives from international and local artists and gamemakers. Check out the full line-up with our wonderful speakers and their Playful Friday sessions below! \n10:00 – 10:30 (Play) Dough Resist with Zuraida Buter & Marie Janin \n10:30 – 11:30Sites of Resistance with Helen Kwok & Chad Toprak \n11:30 – 12:30 Playing with resistance imaginaries: a downpour micro-jam with Resistencia Videolúdica & Jugar Jueguitos \n12:30 – 13:30 BREAK \n13:30 – 14:00 A tiny talk about tiny toolswith Nathalie Lawhead \n14:00 – 14:45 sok-worlds\, sokpop and other sok-stories with Aran Koning \n14:45 – 15:15 Polished vs ‘Primitive’ – Resistance through multilingual visual styleswith Afra Willems \n15:15 – 16:00 (re-)Act through Playful Resistance in Digital Spaceswith Jisoo Lim \n16:00 – 16:15 BREAK \n16:15 – 17:15 Prototyping with Touch and Intimacy with Claire Kwong \n17:15 to 18:00 Playing The Quiet Yearwith Pablo Quarta \n\nDough Resist \nGet ready for the Playful Friday with us for a full and exciting day of interactive talks and playful sessions. Bring your coffee\, tea or other snacks of choice to the Vestzaktheater where curator Zuraida Buter and The Overkill festival director Marie Janin will welcome you to the Playful Friday. After introducing the themes of the festival we will have a short playdough session to explore radical joy resistance together. \nSites of Resistance – A Walk Through Narrm (Melbourne) \nJoin artist duo Helen Kwok & Chad Toprak as they host a walking tour around Narrm (Melbourne\, Australia) to visit various sites around the city\, interrogate their function as “public” spaces\, and how we can resist these spaces by playing\, performing\, or protesting in them. They will reflect on some of their own past playful projects\, and also highlight radical ways the local community have used the city as sites of political resistance. \nBio:\nHelen Kwok & Chad Toprak are an artist duo based in Narrm (Melbourne) who love to create experimental games\, playful installations\, alternative controllers\, and public art activations. Their projects often promote play amongst adults and children in provocative and unexpected ways. The duo have showcased their work in laneways\, street corners\, outdoor plazas\, riverside terraces\, empty warehouses\, libraries\, galleries\, museums\, and festivals across Australia and around the world. \nWebsites:\nhttps://helenkwok.net  & https://mr-chad.com \n\nPlaying With Resistance Imaginaries: A downpour micro-jam \n\n\nIn this mini-jam/micro-jam\, after a short tutorial on how to start making games from scratch with downpour\, we want people to try to create a game about resistance from the margins\, and the possibility of individual or collective performance. After allowing space and time to make our games in downpour\, we will come back together to discuss how we have reflected on identity in our games. We will also create a collaborative Drive folder so that each of us can upload our games and play each other’s games. \nBio: Jugar Juegitos and Resistència Videolúdica are two cultural anticapitalist collectives from Galicia and Catalonia dedicated to the reflection\, exhibition\, critique\, and connection of and around video games in our local communities. Our goal is to explore video games as cultural objects through an interdisciplinary lens. We have organized cultural activities such as the “Club de joc Wholesome” from Resistència Videolúdica and the “Jugar Jueguitos” exhibition from JugarJueguitos. \nwebsites : \nResistència Videolúdica & JugarJueguitos \nA Tiny Talk About Tiny Tools \n\n\nJoin Nathalie Lawhead for a short inspiring show-and-tell of tiny game engines and small tools! We will talk about the abundant space of small alternatives and the uses they have. \nBio: Nathalie Lawhead is an award-winning solo designer of interactive art and video games. They are passionate about the electronic world\, cyberspace\, broken systems\, the profound poetry of computer glitches\, error art\, desktop pets\, weird freeware\, and the beautiful existential horror of our digital realm. \nArtist’s website \n\n\n\n\nsok-worlds\, sokpop and other sok-stories \n\n\nAran will talk about sok-worlds: a game where you make and explore 3d collage worlds. Together with the audience he’ll explore weird\, funny and artsy sok-worlds! After a leisurely stroll in sok-worlds\, he’ll yap about how the way Sokpop operates has given him a lot of creative freedom! \nBio: Aran Koning is a game designer and part of Utrecht-based videogame collective Sokpop. They are best known for releasing a new game every month through their Patreon\, and they’ve made over 100 games since 2018! \nSokpop\nIG Sokpop: https://www.instagram.com/sokpopco\nWebsite: https://sokpop.co/ \nAran Koning\nIG Aran Koning: https://www.instagram.com/arankoning\nWebsite: http://www.aran-koning.com/ \nPolished vs ‘Primitive’ – Resistance through multilingual visual styles \n\n\nA brief talk about a big topic: how to (re)claim space in videogame development. Just like any other language\, visual styles impact power relations. This talk offers inspiration for and examples of independent and individual game designers who appropriate mainstream visual styles and introduce new and alternative visual styles to make themselves heard. \nBio : Afra Willems is an artist and researcher interested in videogame aesthetics. She works in Enschede at Saxion University of Applied Sciences for the research group Ethics & Technology and the Creative Media & Game Technologies course. \n(re-)Act through Playful Resistance in Digital Spaces with Jisoo Lim \n\n\nThis interactive talk\, “(re-)Act through Playful Resistance in Digital Spaces\,” provides guidance on incorporating playful elements into digital environments to foster activism and resistance. Participants will understand how to design interactive digital spaces that convey social messages in an engaging and creative manner. The session combines theoretical insights with small hands-on activities to create a unique approach to digital activism. \nwebsite’s artist \nPrototyping with Touch and Intimacy \n\n\nClaire Kwong will speak about her games which encourage people to move and touch. Then\, participants can explore new ways of playing with touch together! \nBio: Claire Kwong connects art and technology to make people move. She creates immersive environments using projection and motion capture. Her games encourage people to move\, communicate\, and touch. Claire aims to dramatize her own experiences and challenge social boundaries. She lives in New York City. \nWebsite: https://clairekwong.com\nIG: https://www.instagram.com/clairebkwong \nPlaying the Quiet Year \nIn this session\, Pablo Quarta (Atuel\, Matajuegos) will guide the audience through a collective and participatory game of The Quiet Year by Avery Alder. The Quiet Year is a storytelling and map-drawing game in which players take on the role of a community that is struggling to rebuild their home after a catastrophe. It is “part roleplaying game\, part cartographic poetry.” By drawing cards\, answering questions\, having conversations\, and sketching a map together\, everyone at the session will be able to take part in our game of The Quiet Year and embody the processes and dynamics of rebuilding and creating community after social collapse.
URL:https://www.zo-ii.com/event/overkill-2024-playful-friday/
LOCATION:Vestzaktheater\, Enschede\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Curating,Europe,Netherlands
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