Tom K Kemp
Tom K Kemp employs roleplaying game design, animation, filmmaking and installation to produce collaborative ghost stories about complexity and the people who constitute it.
Working primarily through the roleplaying game form, he combines political simulation, genre fiction and speculative thinking into semi-improvised group storytelling, in which participants generate plot, dialogue, diagram and performance together.
By folding organisational structures, political metaphor and imagined worlds into play shaped by players’ lived experience and digressions, his work explores collective agency and the unintended consequences of modelling reality.
Working primarily through the roleplaying game form, he combines political simulation, genre fiction and speculative thinking into semi-improvised group storytelling, in which participants generate plot, dialogue, diagram and performance together.
By folding organisational structures, political metaphor and imagined worlds into play shaped by players’ lived experience and digressions, his work explores collective agency and the unintended consequences of modelling reality.
Recent publications include ‘Gackling Moon’ with Patrick Stuart and ‘Dead Minutes.’
Tom has worked with ArkDes, Stockholm, CAPC Bordeaux, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, the Bonington, Nottingham and QUAD, Derby.
Residencies include Cité des Arts International, Paris, Triangle-Astérides, Marseille, and Rupert, Vilnius.
Tom is an alumni of School of the Damned class of 2017, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 2022-23
Tom has worked with ArkDes, Stockholm, CAPC Bordeaux, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, the Bonington, Nottingham and QUAD, Derby.
Residencies include Cité des Arts International, Paris, Triangle-Astérides, Marseille, and Rupert, Vilnius.
Tom is an alumni of School of the Damned class of 2017, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 2022-23