12pm-4pm: GAME DAY
~~/ Date Me IRL Pls (LARP)
Cara Diana Hunter & Eileen Holowka
Date me IRL Pls is less a role playing game, and more of an actual awkward date. Through facilitated play you get compatibility matched a la OkCupid, spend some time text messaging, and get to know each other while building a block tower representing your relationship.
~~/ Breakup Squad (Catt Small)
Breakup Squad is a fast and asymmetrical team-based game for five players. Two people play as former lovers who spot each other at a party after their toxic breakup. Three players are the lovers' friends who suffer from collateral damage after each makeup and breakup session. Will the lovers be together again, or can the friends keep them apart until the party is over? Make distractions and obstacles to win the cutest breakup game ever!
5pm: BUILD THE LOVE YOU DESERVE
Build the Love You Deserve is a performance series, centered on the semi-fictional relationship between the artist and her do-it-yourself robotic boyfriend, Gabriel2052. Based on the artist’s growing infatuation with a non-humanoid robot, the performance highlights the emotional, societal, and technical hurdles she must overcome to actualize their love. Could the organic and fickle language of love truly be spoken between human and machine? The artist posits that we should try to engage in such a translation -- that perhaps the end goal isn't just to find a replacement, but a better understanding of ourselves.