Combining the fantasy Live Action Role-Playing subculture, public sculpture, and ritualistic performance art, Twentyfivefold was a series of physically and psychologically intense live games involving 80 players which evolved over the Summer of 2008. The events were organized by the artist Brody Condon for the Sonsbeek International public sculpture exhibition in the Netherlands.
Set in a distant future where civilization as we know it had almost been lost, players from different worlds met deep in the holy forest and inhabited a 40 feet high tower “in character” for 3 days at a time while worshipping invented deities embodied by the other artworks of the exhibition.
Credits
Concept/Direction: Brody Condon
Game Design: Bjarke Pedersen
Game Management: Bjarke Pedersen (DK), Monica Traxl (DK), Rita Kristensen (DK)
Game Management Assistance: Adriana Skarped (SE), Martijn Ketelaars (NL), Jonas Hedegaard (DK), Anita Myhre Andersen (NO), Marke de Vreede (NL), Tim Bosje (NL)
Production Manager: Rita Kristensen (DK)
Game Workshop: Monica Traxl (DK)
Game Public Relations: Wouter Luth (NL)
Game Consultant: Sander Burger (NL)
Camera/ Video Editing: Nina Yuen (US)
Environment Design: Brody Condon (US)
Environment Design Assistance: Vibeke Pagh Schultz (DK)
Production Assistant: Arjen Schoonderwoerd (NL)
Costume Design/Character Backgrounds: Players
Web Design: Kristianna Smith
Catering: De Kookplaats Arnhem
Thanks to following members of the Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur exhibition team
Curator: Anna Tilroe
Assistant to the curator: Astrid Schumacher
Production Manager: Alexander Godschalk
Guild Coordinator: Cathelijne Bouwkamp
Production Assistant: Hannes van Soest
Park Manager: Jeroene Glissenaar
Bookstore: Marga van Keulen
Thanks:
-The artists in the Sonsbeek 2008:Grandeur exhibition
-Interactive theatre and game design students from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht
-Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York
-Project Gentili, Prato
-Beatrix Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands
TwentyfiveFold Manifestation was produced by the Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur International Public Sculpture Exhibition which took place June 13th to September 21st in Arnhem, Netherlands.