Saturday, March 14, 4–7PM
Saturday, April 4, 12–3PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St., LA, CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max attendance: 25 per session
Free
What if you could sit down with strangers and design the kind of world you actually want to live in? During our residency at Feminist Center for Creative Work, we’re hosting two public gameplay sessions of Marooning Bodies, an immersive world-building game where communities come together to imagine new ways of living, caring for one another, and responding to challenges collectively.
In the game, players are guided through a series of questions and scenarios about how a society might organize itself. Together, you will make decisions about shared resources, community rituals, responses to harm, and systems of care. Along the way, you will be invited to reflect, discuss, and create through simple writing, drawing, movement, or storytelling prompts.
Marooning Bodies has been in development for four years and has been play-tested internationally in Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, and across North America, including at USC, CSU East Bay, National Sawdust Creative Forum in New York City, the Women and Dance Leadership Conference in Los Angeles, and Norco Prison. Over the course of its run, the game has generated collections of poetry, paintings, creation stories, a perfume series, dance rituals, and even academic dissertations.
This is not a performance and not a lecture. It is a facilitated, participatory experience designed to be welcoming to everyone. No art or game experience is required. Just bring your curiosity and willingness to imagine.
These sessions are part of our open studio Marooning Bodies: Prototype and Prophecy, where we are transforming collective imagination into a living archive. What emerges in each session becomes part of the project’s evolving future history.
Come as you are. Bring a friend. Leave having built a world with strangers.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Mims is the founder of Marooning Bodies, and is behind the curation and creative direction of the project’s many expansions. She is an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles. Her work moves across performance art, advocacy, public art, social practice, and fine art objects. She experiences the body as a site of liberation and approaches it as her first place of inquiry. Through an ongoing exploration of relationship between self, others, land, and more than human life, Mims grounds her practice in embodied knowing. She is deeply interested in questioning as a tool for collective understanding, the role of interpersonal relationships in building healthy communities, and the sacred wisdom held in cultures and ecosystems around the world.
Muoi is behind the creative direction, research, and design for Marooning Bodies. They begin with the practice of research as a declaration of love. Their body of work is born from this process. Each project comes as a search for new ways to hold community; in search of new ways to write love letters. They create from a framework that holds imagining and remembering as two sides of the same coin. By their hands— research not only provides a home for historic context, but generates new paths towards wonder, and imbues projects with meaningful action on the issues of our present. From film, to the written word, to painting, to spatial and graphic design, their interdisciplinary practice is sharpened by the call to bring collective dreams into our waking lives. With a background in architecture, law, and public policy, they navigate multiple mediums to manifest budding ideas into living, breathing projects.