New Voices in Art is a chamber game about about a group of aspiring artist the night before the opening of the exhibition ‘New Voices in Art’. The participants play a version of themselves as aspiring artists. The main themes of this game are ambition, ambivalence and aloneness. The world of modern art is used as a setting to symbolize our yearning for success and fulfillment as creative individuals. To produce this game you need a space that will function as the gallery in the game and as many pieces of art as there are participants playing artists. All information necessary for running this game can be found in the downloadable PDF file.
Created by Tor Kjetil Edland, Arvid Falch and Erling Rognli
An ingame article has been written about New Voices in Art in the fanzine Imagonem
Chamber Games was selected to participate in the art festival Nisjelandet with New Voices in Art. This was a part of the music festival By:Larm, which took place in Oslo 21-23 February 2008.
December 19, 2007 at 9:54 am
Had the pleasure of playing this small larp half a year ago. It created a beautiful drama around a random bunch of social and emotinal misfits; the artists. The simple method and setting made the players responcible for the drama, and we fuelled it with ease.
Both this and the larp “13 at the table” build upon the same “principles of ease” as my own games “Autumn of Life” and “Be calm, the plane is crashing” and “Stoke – Birmingham 0-0” (the last one may be had for free, in English, at Nørvegian Style). I believe so strongly in the qualities of these principles that I have planned two series of 9 games each on it.
April 7, 2008 at 6:26 pm
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April 9, 2011 at 3:56 pm
I just wanted to let you know that we just had a very fun run of this game of Festival of the LARPs in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
April 9, 2011 at 4:19 pm
@Kate – Great to hear that!
December 10, 2013 at 9:03 pm
[…] could tap the glass of fellow players in order to hear what their characters were really thinking. Here you can download the PDF for the game. Me and Even’s reviews at the beginning of this […]
May 8, 2014 at 11:09 am
[…] New Voices in Art … a dozen artist characters, a dozen random works of art, and a dozen random artist thoughts, such as “I think this could be my best work, but is it art?”. Set in a gallery, I think this would be great fun, and also quite easy to set up. It’s about 7 years old and I read somewhere that it’s one of the first to employ a meta-technique (not sure I can define that at the moment). Anyway, the meta technique is called ‘ping the glass’. Anyone can, at any time, ping the glass of another character, who then gives a monologue revealing the character’s innermost thoughts. The players can hear it, but the characters can’t! They then take a sip, and the action carries on as before. […]
July 5, 2014 at 12:02 pm
[…] chosen ‘New Voices in Art’ by Edland, Falch and Rognli. This is a larp in which the characters are artists at the preview of […]
August 5, 2014 at 7:26 pm
[…] New Worcester in art (left this great autocorrect here) was the second of the bigger games we played and the only game that we played all together. Which makes sense there are very few games out there that can fit that many people with in such a short timeframe. The game is online here […]
February 8, 2015 at 1:15 pm
[…] Das Spiel ist designed von den talentierten Tor Kjetil Edland, Arvid Falch und Erling Rognli! Ihr findet mehr auf ihrer Webseite. […]
March 1, 2016 at 12:56 pm
Play / Test, in Galway, Ireland, will be running this in May! Any comments or useful advice would be great…