CLASS WARGAMES ON CAMPAIGN

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
– Friedrich Engels

To access the list of games chronicled in Class Wargames: ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism, click here.

Exhibitions

• The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London, England, 9th April–26th May 2008.
• The Game of War Weekend, HTTP Gallery, London, England, 26th September–20th October 2009.
• Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Institute of Contemporary Interactive Art, University of Bath, Bath, England, 19th January–26th February 2011.
• Tomorrow Never Dies – European Cultural Congress, Design Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland, 8th–11th September 2011.
• Games People Play, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon Forest Park, Exeter, England, 6th April–30th September 2012.
• Invisible Forces, Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, England, 16th June–11th August 2012.
• FIELDS, Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Latvian National Arts Museum, Latvia, 15th May–3rd August 2014.
• Class Wargames – The Game of War, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22nd April–9th May 2015.

Performances

• 23rd October 2007 – London Games Festival Fringe, 01zero-one, London, England.
• 19th April 2008 – Salute ’08, Excel Centre, London, England.
• 26th April 2008 – The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, London, England.
• 10th May 2008 – 1968 & All That, Conway Hall, London, England.
• 31st October 2008 – Cold War Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.
• 27th November 2008 – Cyberfest 2008, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 20th April 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 29th April 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Café com Letras, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• 25th July 2009 – Summer of Discontent, Plan 9, Bristol, England.
• 26th–27th September 2009 – The Game of War Weekend, HTTP Gallery, London, England.
• 10th October 2009 – Crash/Crush Festival 2009, Bed Elze Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands.
• 27th October 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Department of Media & Communications, University of Middlesex, London, England.
• 8th November 2009 – Market Forces: Share International Festival of Arts and Digital Culture, Turin, Italy.
• 14th November 2009 – Wunderbar Festival, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England.
• 14th November 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia.
• 28th November 2009 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Yugoslav Workers’ Club, Lokativ, Vienna, Austria.
• 19th December 2009 – Resonance FM’s Media Playground, The Foundry, London, England.
• 27th January 2010 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 7th February 2010 – Transmediale 10, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
• 16th February 2010 – Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London, England.
• 7th March 2010 – Gender & Politics Free School, London Free School, London, England.
• 21st March 2010 – Skill Share Bazaars of Haringey, Tottenham Chances, London, England.
• 14th May 2010 – Birkbeck Debord Reading Group, Birkbeck College, London, England.
• 30th July 2010 – Parque del Sol 10, St. Pölten, Austria.
• 18th September 2010 – H.G. Wells Festival, Folkestone, England.
• 13th October 2010 – What Is To Be Done? The Urgent Need to Struggle, ICA, London, England.
• 28th November 2010 – The Futurological Congress, Center for the History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine.
• 9th January 2011 – Artists’ Talk and ‘The Game of War’ Participatory Performance, Institute of Contemporary Interactive Art, Bath, England.
• 26th February 2011 – Participatory Re-performance of H.G. Wells’ ‘Little Wars’, Institute of Contemporary Interactive Art, Bath, England.
• 19th June 2011 – Virtual Futures 2.0, University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
• 25th June 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets Vasily Chapayev, Vse Svobodny Bookstore and Literary Club, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2nd July 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets Takako Saito’s ‘Liquor Chess’, Tsiolkovsky Bookstore, State Polytechnical Museum, Moscow, Russia.
• 27th July 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets ‘Chapayev and Void’, Galereya Revolutsija, Irkutsk, Russia.
• 24th August 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets McKenzie Wark’s ‘Beach Beneath the Streets’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 2nd December 2011 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’ meets Takako Saito’s ‘Liquor Chess’, Raylab, London, England.
• 8th–9th June 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Live-Art-Festival: Postspectaculism, Hamburg, Germany.
• 23rd June 2012 – Class Wargames Picnic & Subversion: Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Furtherfield Gallery, London, England.
• 30th June 2012 – Class Wargames Picnic & Subversion: 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s ‘Commands & Colors: Napoleonics’, Furtherfield Gallery, London, England.
• 18th August 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, England.
• 19th August 2012 – H.G. Wells’ ‘Little Wars’, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, England.
• 28th October 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 31st October 2012 – 1791 Haitian Revolution version of Richard Borg’s ‘Commands & Colors: Napoleonics’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 12th December 2012 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 24th March 2013 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Cowley Club, Brighton, England.
• 13th April 2013 – The Life & Legacy of C.L.R. James, WEA London Region, London, England.
• 23rd April 2013 – Playgrounds of Insubordination, Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• 30th November 2013 – Spielsalon 2013, Kunsthalle Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany.
• 4th June 2014 – Cybersalon – The Critical Play Of Serious Games, Quartier 21, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna, Austria.
• 5th June 2014 – Schutzbund 1934 @ Crossbreeds 2014, Traditionscafé Industrie, Vienna, Austria.
• 6th June 2014 – Class Wargames Präsentiert Guy Debords Kriegspiel, BOEM Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
• 24th October 2014 – Class Wargames book launch party, Red Gallery, London, England.
• 11th December 2014 – COBRA 1.4-1.5-1.6 launch party, a/political, London, England.
• 22nd December 2014 – Class Wargames Winter Solstice, Housmans Bookshop, London, England.
• 3rd February 2015 – Class Wargames book talk, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London, England.
• 22nd April 2015 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 29th April 2015 – Tyranny of the Creator: HACK/PLAY, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 13th May 2015 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, England.
• 20th January 2016 – Guy Debord’s ‘The Game of War’, PLANK: the blog for the Politically Led Art & Networked Knowledge, The Common House, London, England.

Ludic Science Club

FleaPit, London, England

• 22nd July 2008 – The Game of War and War on Terror.
• 19th August 2008 – Napoleon’s Triumph.
• 3rd March 2009 – Crunch.
• 17th March 2009 – Red Guard.
• 7th April 2009 – Comrade Koba and Red Guard.
• 9th June 2009 – The Game of War.
• 23rd June 2009 – The Game of War and Comrade Koba.
• 21st July 2009 – Schutzbund 1934.
• 4th August 2009 – Schutzbund 1934.
• 18th August 2009 – Schutzbund 1934 and Comrade Koba.
• 8th September 2009 – Schutzbund 1934.

Firebox, London, England

• 3rd March 2013 – Liberté.
• 7th April 2013 – Chicago-Chicago.
• 5th May 2013 – Election.
• 2nd June 2013 – Civilisation.

Furtherfield Gallery, London, England

• 2nd March 2014 – 1812 Crossing the Berezina scenario for Commands & Colors: Napoleonics.
• 4th May 2014 – Apokalypse 1945.
• 1st June 2014 – Russian Civil War 1918-1922.

UCLU George Farha Cafe Bar, London, England

• 5th June 2015 – Spartacus scenario for Commands & Colors: Ancients.
• 19th June 2015 – Waterloo scenario for Commands & Colors: Napoleonics.
• 3rd July 2015 – Battle of Warsaw scenario for Strike of the Eagle.
• 17th July 2015 – Battle of Nieman River scenario for Strike of the Eagle.
• 14th August 2015 – Canadian Civil War.
• 30th October 2015 – Decline and Fall.

Training Sessions

• 4th September 2007 – Willesden Green, London, England.
• 12th October 2007 – Occupation Studios, London, England.
• 9th November 2007 – Occupation Studios, London, England.