#22 Privilege, Play, and Starting conversations with Risa Puno of The Privilege of Escape

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10/11/19 • 48 min

A door has opened with the rise of immersive experience. Immersive experience can be fun, and wondrous, mind bending, but it can also aid incredible empathy in a way that very few other things can.
The privilege of escape is an escape room and an experience that uses this fact to address the real world problems of privilege and social inequity. Risa Puno, is a new york based artist that, in collaboration with creative time, has pioneered a new front, a new world of potential, for what immersive experiences can be.

References & Selected Links:

The Privilege of Escape
Risa Puno
@risapuno
On twitter
On Vimeo

Creative time
-Sugar Sphinx
-Pigeon lights performance

The Onassis foundation
The olympic tower building
On Post Game Frothing

Show Notes:

Fictional world for adventures [2:43]
•PSA: We don’t wrap back around to that- the rest of the conversation was just too good! [5:53]
•Creative Time and What is the Privilege of Escape? [6:04]
•Why an escape room? [8:43]
•Nuance in name and idea [11:52]
•Communicating privilege through adrenaline and context [13:57]
•What is the experience like? [16:37]
•The setting- now with spaceship hvac! [19:35]
•The depth of the space [22:44]
•Post game debrief [24:22]
•Games that show who we are [26:11]
•The actors in the art [29:45]
•You are the message [33:11]
•Risa undercover- getting shut down [35:13]
•Being right doesn’t matter Power dynamics feeling only 99% sure [36:10]
•Awareness of one’s privilege [41:05]
•Acknowledging one’s privilege [42:27]
•Using the frothiness [43:24]

References & Selected Links:

The Privilege of Escape
Risa Puno
@risapuno
On twitter
On Vimeo

Creative time
-Sugar Sphinx
-Pigeon lights performance

The Onassis foundation
The olympic tower building
On Post Game Frothing

Show Notes:

Previous Episode

#21 The value of play pt. 1

Why is play important? What is the value of play?

Well, today’s episode of the immersion Nation Podcast is a little bit different. This is the first in a series of mini episodes that we’re going to be releasing periodically in place of our normal interviews.

We’ve been asking guests of the Immersion Nation podcast why play matters.

There are certain concepts that are intrinsic, not just to the immersive wave, but to how we understand and interface with the world as a whole. But often the importance of play fades in our mind as we get older...
We want to know what you think!
What do we lose when we forget how to play?
Or
Why do you think play is important?
-We will share your thoughts on the next episode about about play

•Email Nathaniel Sky, the podcast host directly with this link: https://www.immersionnation.com/contact/
•DM us on instagram: @immersionnation
•Or message us on facebook with this link: http://m.me/immersionnation
Selected Links:

Genevieve Gearhart on the podcast
The Speakeasy Society
Christoff Visscher on the podcast
Tales By candlelight
Pete Billington on the podcast
Wolves in the Walls
Fable Studio

Show Notes:

Intrinsic to how we understand the world [1:20]
Genevieve Gearhart on play [1:54]
Is play escapism? [2:53]
Christoff Visscher on play [3:59]
Playing in reality [5:13]
Pete Billington of Fable Studio [5:51]
Forgetting how to play [6:38]
What do you think? [7:58]
What do you think? [7:58]

Next Episode

#23 The Heightened Mystery of Poe’s Passing With Aaron Salazar of Poseidon Theatre company

On the date of this recording, 170 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe died. It is disputed exactly how Poe died, and why. But there is a theory...
Now, if you were to find yourself in manhattan 50 years ago, you might also find a group of young adults, gathered in a basement with Poe’s words eager on their lips, and a singular determination to uncover the story behind the poets death. Would you join them?
Today, Aaron Salazar of the Poseidon Theatre Company has made it possible for one to ask themselves this question. He joins the immersion nation podcast to discuss this immersive experience: Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe? The Cooping Theory, 1969.

Selected Links:

Who killed Edgar Allan Poe, The Cooping Theory 1969
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter

Poseidon Theatre company
DDM Productions
RPM underground

Aaron Salazar

The Turn Of The Screw
The Others
Blackout

Show Notes:

Recorded on the 170th anniversary of Poe’s Death [3:01]

What fictional world would you live in? [3:23]

What is ‘Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe? The Cooping Theory 1969’ [4:49]

The cooping theory- electoral fraud and Poe’s death [10:46]

Setting a societal scene, the context for tragedy [14:22]

What you walk away with [16:39]
Unexpected reactions: all the first timers [19:52]

Herding fish [22:45]

Make it immersive [23:52]

Creating with classic works [35:47]

Moving into immersive [37:40]

“Critics don’t really know how to review this stuff” [39:03]

The form necessitated adaptation [41:43]

Those who do, and those who’d rather not [44:55]

‘Submit to the extremity of the experience’ [46:37]

Non-linear narrative- no experience is a straight line [48:51]

The paranormal swamp [52:10]

Your satisfaction level is dependent on your participation [52:35]

Relentless [54:42]

Aaron on Blackout [55:07]

Where can people find all of these things? [1:00:10]

Immersion Nation Podcast - #22 Privilege, Play, and Starting conversations with Risa Puno of The Privilege of Escape

Transcript

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