Troll Swamp
2021

 

3D prints in PLA, digital prints, silicon, cardboard, mushrooms and lichen dyed silk and wool, cotton nets, MDF tabletops, dice, marker pens, stools, trestles.
Dimensions variable

 

Co-produced by Bergen Assembly 2019.
Pictured as part of Quote-Unquote in Goodbuy Gallery, Bucharest, June 2021.
Photography: Petre Fall

Troll Swamp
2019

 

3D prints in PLA, digital prints, silicon, cardboard, mushrooms and lichen dyed silk and wool, MDF tabletops, dice, marker pens, stools, trestles.
Dimensions variable

 

Bergen Assembly 2019 – Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead.
Exhibited in Entrée.
Curated by Simon Sheikh.
With the support of Mondriaan Fonds
Photography: Thor Brødreskift

 

Troll Swamp is a large-scale board game for multiple players, based on the formats and characters from the popular tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons. The game has been developed and tested with various groups in Bergen, and utilises role-play and teamwork in order to act out scenarios against online trolling. Through the analogue nature of the game, a playful situation emerges where one plays an imaginary character. Guided by the Dungeon Master (a storyteller guiding the players through the game), each player will face their own online habits as well as their relationship with others. Troll Swamp has the potential to enable its players to regain confidence, rethink dynamics of interaction and reclaim a different space of expression online.