Josephine Rydberg’s Making public

Mud in the Machine is an artistic research project where the doctoral candidate explores forms of embodied play and larping in VR as a practice of posthumanist resistance in a transhumanist architecture. It looks at some of the affordances of the VR space, and uses the Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. LeGuin as a frame for larping as a practice of relationship centric dramaturgy. The event is being held in Gothenburg. 

Schedule

Part 1 
Time: at 13:00–17:00
Place: Visual Arena, Lindholmen, Gothenburg + streaming
The VRlarp The language of plants is played with some players present in the room and others over the distance,  it is cast to a big screen for an audience. The larp is an adaptation of the analogue scenario of the same title, The Language of Plants written by Omi-peah Ryding and Roman Schramm, the world is programmed by Laura Nemeth. The doctoral candidate will act as the GM.

Part 2
Tid: at 19:00–20:00
Plats: Eriksbergshallen, The Knutpunkt Conference, Gothenburg.
Presentation of the Making Public materials for Mud in the Machine.

Public defence
The public defence will be held on the 21 May 2026.
Link to Public defence

Read more about the PhD project