In conversation with Susan Ploetz

In conversation with Susan Ploetz Susan Ploetz is an artist-researcher working with somatics, simulation and live-action role play (LARP). In Ploetz’s simulations, players enact scenarios in which they imagine themselves as aliens, robots and babies, communicate using only song, and craft magical objects. Her latest project, PSY SOMA TEK, imagines a speculative institute founded to create sustainable psy-somatic technologies of foresight, communication and knowledge sharing when the technocratic-suprastructures of the old order have started to fall apart. Here, she speaks with Guy Mackinnon-Little about collaborative world-building, the limits of VR and how LARP protocols might present an alternative to a social sphere marked by distrust and disintegration.