Join us for a guided game session for ‘Liquid Dependencies: What does a decentralised, caring society look like?’
This live action role-playing experience invites 12 participants to inhabit characters within the fictional ReUnion society, a sustainable community shaped by long-term mutual care and collective responsibility.
Developed by designer and theorist Yin Aiwen with Zoe Zhao and Yiren Zhao, the game creates a speculative, participatory space. This newly localised iteration invites players to navigate evolving scenarios while balancing their own needs with the wellbeing of the wider community. Within this society, mutual care unfolds through a fluid network of friends, flatmates, partners, colleagues, neighbours and other forms of chosen ‘new’ kinship. As relationships shift and alliances form, participants collectively shape a social structure in which care becomes the community’s primary form of currency.
The session will run for approximately five hours and will be hosted by artist Yin Aiwen alongside esea contemporary’s curator-in-residence and writer Milia Xin Bi. The session will open with brief remarks from Asymmetry Director Michèle Ruo Yi Landolt, introducing the foundation’s support for Yin’s fellowship, and from esea contemporary Director Xiaowen Zhu, who will introduce the exhibition 'Thresholds of Becoming', which she curates and in which Aiwen’s work is featured.
There will be a short break between rounds, with complimentary snacks provided.
Advance booking is required to attend this event.
This event is co-hosted by esea contemporary and Asymmetry, with generous support from Asymmetry.
Yin Aiwen (b. Zhanjiang) is a Rotterdam-based designer, artist, researcher and strategist. Yin is an artist, designer, researcher, and occasional institutional strategist. Departing from the idea that 'the technological is institutional, the institutional is technological', Yin reconsiders and reimagines socio-economic, cultural, emotional, and bodily conditions by designing new techno-institutional frameworks grounded in care ethics. Her work often begins with ambitious speculative questions and uses critical theory as a design brief to create new systems of value through various forms of demonstration, such as performances, games, digital platforms, or exhibitions. Yin teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven and the Master Institute of Visual Cultures in the Netherlands. She received an Asymmetry Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Advanced Practices at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2024. Previously, she held research fellowships at Framer Framed (2024), the Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (2024 & 2023), ZK/U Berlin (2019), and Art Center South Florida (US, 2017). In 2019, Yin received the INFORM Prize for Conceptual Design for her work.
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