The Fabled AFR Machine or How to Leave Reality IRL

'The Fabled AFR (Away From Reality) Machine, or How to Leave Reality IRL (In Real Life)' is an online workshop and set of instructions that helps you temporarily leave reality from the comfort of your own home. No need to travel anywhere. It is a list of poems and paradoxes that help the player to leave reality and visit other realms and also gives them the skills to build their own poems and paradoxes to help other people to leave reality. Set in a reality where no one can leave their homes or visit the "real world" the AFR machine is the only method for visiting any kind of shared reality.

Artist bio
Francis Patrick Brady is an artist living and working in Malmö, Copenhagen and London. He graduated from Konsthögskola Malmö in 2017. He is currently in residence at InterArtsCentre (SE) and Art Hub (DK). 

 Brady creates art that often resembles the shape of a game. Using the structures of speculative play as a model for probing the barriers between reality and fantasy. The artworks begin as handmade objects, fabrics, cards, sounds, texts that provide a set of alternative possibilities; or paths to travel. 

He is co-founder and organiser of ‘Celsius Projects’, Malmö. He is also organiser of the art collective ‘Union Group’ who have a focus on Roleplay, VR, consent safety, and immersive practices.

The workshop will be held in English via zoom on the 29th of October at 16:00 - 18:00
To participate, please send an email to info@flockprojects.se

FLOCKs public program are presented with support from Nordisk Kulturfond and Kulturkontakt Nord.