The Black Rose Trick is a performance taking place on a hotel in Malmø, Sweden, from March 4th - 14th. Artists and actors will be living there 24-7 and as audience you can check in and stay for a shorter or longer while, visiting all the rooms to see which dramas unfold. For unknown reason, the hotel also hosts a medical lab and a military unit....and a shop with desirable objects.

There is a webpage where you can read about the concept, and here it is also possible to "enter" the hotel and watch the webcams positioned in all rooms. In addition, apparently objects from the hotel could be/can be found in the streets of Malmø and Copenhagen with clues leading to the hotel, the story and the webpage.

In its entirety, the concept seems pretty much in line with the pervasive reality games. Action taking place all the time, blurring of fact and fiction, clues dispersed over a variety of media, the potential underlying conspiracy theory etc.

Should see if I can make it to Malmø!
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:16