CULT≈LIKE | Z•Str Expert Session #1 - guest speaker: Ethan Roselinski
CULT≈LIKE | Z•Str. expert session #1
Desperately Seeking in conversation with Ethan Roselinski - Head of the Department of Messianism in the Institute of Abstract Addictions
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ZOOM Shake The Room (Z•Str.) is back, every last Friday of the month, in a series of digital LARP "expert sessions"
4 the first event of our program, we were grateful 2 be joined by Berlin-based psychologist and psychoanalyst, sociologist, and scholar in the study of cults, Ethan Roselinski
Roselinskis research into the phenomenon of abstract addictions has led him 2 write his groundbreaking 2018 book, "Societies of Con-Troll". his theory of the subject as rejecting power instead of attracting it was seen by many as “eye-opening”, “refreshing”, and “absolutely ridiculous, but in a good way”
Roselinski applied his theories and therapeutic praxis on Desperately Seeking. it was an essential healing exercise, that took us on a guided journey 2 find our will 2 power once again - a process he also calls "rehabilitation from the decadent state of whine and wine"
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“If you ought to understand the society you’re in, don’t follow power and who profits from it, follow weakness - and who profits from that.” (Michelle Foucault, 2012)
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"Z•STR. EXPERT SESSIONS" IS A DIGITAL LIVE ACTION ROLE-PLAYING GAME, STAGED AS AN EVENT PROGRAM ABOUT AN IMAGINARY WELLNESS COMMUNITY CALLED "DESPERATELY SEEKING" (DS)
THE ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS LARP SESSION WERE
Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas - as DS founder
Gabriel S Moses - as top rank community member Gabriel S Moses
Gözde Güngör - as top rank community member Gözde Güngör
Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus - as Dr. Ethan Roselinski
Adam Etzion - as community member Adam Krumholtz
*2 actively participate on Zoom, sign up 2 the Z•Str. digital LARP go to
https://desperatelyseeking.online/
the session also features a screening of the work
"Anything Consumed Must Come Out"
originally produced for ISEA2020 Festival
produced by Gabriel S Moses
performed by Gözde Güngör and
Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas
additional sound mix by GADD Music
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well•ness goes deep... .. . . .
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