As the next incarnation of Purgatorium RHIZ*, we are inventing a board game in which practices of self-determined living become consultable. As an inspiration serves Lizzie Magie’s “The Landlord’s Game” from 1904, which was developed to playfully point out the dangers of a privatized real estate market. During a long history of capitalized theft of ideas, it perverted into the world-famous board game “Monopoly”.

We ask ourselves whether games can change the world or if they just bind us to our private lives so we can – like proverbial Biedermeiers – hide from the torments of the world. Therefore, at a stopover. we want to play games that try to do the first (change the world) and that are intended to strengthen us for the onward journey to a – playful, yet serious – liberation from speculative-capitalist logics.

This evening is intended to offer a taste of “Purgatorium RHIZ* – f) Unlocking the city”. We playfully refuse the crisis and exchange the game board for a scope of play. We want amusement as a focus rather than a distraction – and swap bread for cake. So that, in the end, the bank or Benkos don’t always win.