Participation
I make things that people take part in rather than watch; games, LARPS (live action roleplays) and workshops. I make these for museums and galleries, online and for people to take home and play. Often they involve movement and ask people to be aware of their body and those of other players. Sometimes they address political or philosophical questions in simple ways.
Metaform is a game that you currently commission for festivals and conferences.
Living Spaces/ Dead Spaces
A melancholic somatic experience centered around movement-based play. It explores the discomfort of a familiar space transforming around you and being displaced to somewhere new, drawing on ideas of haunting and being haunted.
2 hrs. 10-26 people.
How Many Chairs to Build The Future?
Hamish MacPherson
2022 Now Play This (Somerset House)
2016
#choreographic #conversational #sculptural #large-scale #self-led #festival #gallery
How Many Bricks to Build the Future?
Participants use wooden blocks and instruction cards to think and talk about big ideas in simple, physical ways. It’s a mix of choreography and sculpture. It’s a collective reading. It’s a game with no winners or losers.
20 minutes. 2-7 people.
2020 Wellcome Collection
2019 Swallowsfeet Festival
Honk, Scuttle, Plop!
w. Alison Alexander
A specially made kit for playing and creating games in your street inspired by the wild places in Waltham Forest. Run, balance, dance, photograph and explore together with friends, family and neighbours.
2+ people. Ages 8+
2021 Waltham Forest Jump Festival
#family #self-led #festival #themed
Alien Phenomenology
Hamish MacPherson & Sarah
2024 Now Play This (Somerset House) 2016
#somatic #LARP #facilitated #festival #workshop
Let’s Play PMQs
Hamish MacPherson & Michael Such
2021 Now Play This (Somerset House)
#LARP #facilitated #themed #politics
Breastbeating
Hamish MacPherson
2024 Now Play This (Somerset House) 2016
#commission #tabletop #self-led #gallery #themed #poltics
Shadows over Croydon
w. Una Hamilton Helle
A solo larp set in Croydon’s Whitgift Centre. Made in a residency at Turf Projects, using fantasy horror roleplaying games as a method and metaphor to engage with the presence of the shopping centre in contemporary life
2019 Croydon Arts Store Residency
#somatic #LARP #festival
A Dance History Game
Hamish MacPherson
2024 Now Play This (Somerset House) 2016
#somatic #LARP #festival
The Third Chamber
Gillie Kleiman and Hamish MacPherson
2024 Now Play This (Somerset House) 2016
#somatic #LARP #festival
Open House
Hamish MacPherson
2024 Now Play This (Somerset House) 2016
#somatic #LARP #festival
Algorhytms
Hamish MacPherson & Michael Such
2024 Now Play This (Somerset House) 2016
#somatic #LARP #festival