The World After Game Session with David Blandy

23 January 2020 / 5.00pm to 8.00pm / Focal Point Gallery

Join us for a free exhibition introduction followed by a game session of table-top roleplaying game ‘The World After’ with David Blandy. No experience necessary.

As well as presenting an exhibition and film at Focal Point Gallery, Blandy saw the potential in table-top roleplay games for generating a space to reimagine interpersonal relations in a time when divisions in society have become so marked and opposing positions so ossified. In the game, Canvey Island has become the site of an entire alternate world, a ‘World After’ our current conception of humanity. Blandy imagines Canvey as the setting for a narrative of renewal and rebirth, of collaboration towards a world of harmony in diversity, both in nature and with each other.

Blandy has worked closely with gaming communities in Essex to create this future world, devising creatures based on local wildlife and myth, and imagining societies that have evolved separately in vast underground Havens. Together they have used the format of the roleplaying game to create a collective story that imagines new ways of living together. ‘The World After’ table-top roleplay gaming rulebook, designed collaboratively with members of the Essex gaming community, is now available for sale from Focal Point Gallery.