Asya Volodina is a writer, games designer and artist based in Moscow. Using the medium of larp (live action role play) she challenges the audience to become a part, participant and co-author for her artworks.
Asya sees larps as an experience of a transgressive glissade to unusual reality register. It ives a possibility to talk about post humanity and trans humanity (“1597 seconds”, “Justice Against The Grain”, “Deus Ex Machina”, “Wir. Malevich”, “Escritoires”), time (“Low Season”, “Happy Birthday, Alice!”, “Evening in the Museum”), structure of communities and societies (“The Cost of Living”, “Deus Ex Machina”) in the language of personal experience and fictional situations.
Asya’s larps have been presented in Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), Khodynka Gallery (Moscow), Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm), Bard Graduate Center (New York), Kampnagel Theatre (Hamburg), Live Action Theatre (Moscow). She also collaborated with V-A-C foundation and works with Arseny Zhilyaev.
Image 1: “Justice Against The Grain” by Asya Volodina in collaboration with Sarah Culman, Yury Kviatkovsky, V-A-C foundation, Moscow, 2019Image 2: “Escritoires” by Asya Volodina, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2020
Image 3: “Happy Birthday, Alice!” by Asya Volodina, Live Action Theatre, Moscow, 2020
