I am incredibly thankful to the numerous people who helped me, inspired me, and supported me in various measures since 2017. In my final exhibition, I attempted printing all these names, and the paper roll had to cover two walls and part of the floors: I am so fortunate to have encountered all of you - there is definitely a full forest behind this tree.

Warmly, I thank my main supervisor Dr. Christy Dena, whose ethical reflections have helped me hold my own, thank you for all the reviewing, all the discussing, for following this project and my agitation with consistency, structure and an ever renewing set of references and ideas. Thank you for sharing your knowledge as a pedagogue, it’s helped me so much with discovering teaching myself.

Thank you, Siri Langdalen for joining as a supervisor in my last year and sharing your production design talent and knowledge with me. From our earlier collaborations in Lillehammer to setting up my final exhibition, you’ve been incredibly inspiring and motivating.

This project would not exist if not for CEFIMA, the Centre for Excellence in Film and Media Arts which was led by Fredrik Graver. I am forever grateful to have been part of CEFIMA and for Fredrik’s trust and support. Thank you Fredrik for the discussions, for calmly listening to my fuming French rants, and also for being a bold and brave pedagogue and study leader.

Thanks to Pr. Carl Svensson, my first sparring partner on this project, a friend, an inspiring teacher figure and a great car ride for years. This project would not have been nearly as ambitious and as rich if not for your support and joyful collaboration through and through.

Thanks to Ingrid Nordby, the one true professional wolf, for accompanying this project through many of its shapes and embarking on more crazy adventures with me, as an amazing creative mind and as an amazing friend.

Thanks to Dr. Trond Lossius for the incredible support you brought me and all of us artistic research fellows. A support in thoughts, in excitement, in arts, in administration, in many more forms. Working with you has been humbling and I look up to your ability to renew your joy of artistic research, and to how wonderful a supervisor you are to so many different artists.

Thank you, thank you, Linda Tangen Bjørge. Your arrival at school has been so providential. I am so grateful for you and your ability to lighten the heaviest situations.

Thanks to Dean Eli Bø for the always thought-provoking and leveling discussions, and for bravely making more room for research in the school that you're helping grow. Us PhD candidates have been increasingly able to unfold our work and get a sense of belonging in the school.

Thanks to Bjarne Kvinnsland, Dr. Maureen Thomas, Christian Fonnesbech, Dr. Simon McCallum, Karin Julsrud for your precious advice and support in the earlier stages of my research.

Many many thanks to the research fellows that I have exchanged with more or less closely along the years, our discussions have always brought me more energy and more curiosity. In particular, thanks to Dr. Cecilie Levy, Dalia Al-Kury, Dr. Elin Festøy, Frederick Howard and Bendik Stang for sharing this ride with me. Some of you became friends, and I am grateful that this fellowship brought us together.

Thank you to the staff in Lillehammer for accompanying the various stages and forms of this research. Janicke Vibe and Ann Iren Bratt thank you for making administration warm and friendly. Liv Sørlien, thank you for your generous help from one ambitious construction to the next. Thanks to the Oslo team for helping make the final exhibition possible.

Thanks to the technical department for the crucial support and inspiring discussions, it’s a treat to be working with creative technicians like you, Johannes Selvaag, Pedro Zapata Hagen, Sindre Sæbø Svensson, Sean Fulton, Dr. Rafal Hanzl.

Thanks to my favorite partner in VR experimentation and absolute genius Rikke Jansen. You taught me a lot by casually sharing your passion and ideas. I can’t wait to work with you again.

Thanks to my other partners in experimentation; Kim Bauman-Larssen, Martin Kvale, Martin Nielsen, Makropol and Breach VR. To Breach: thank you for bringing this prototype to life and the exciting exchanges throughout the development process.

Thanks to the students at DNF. In particular thanks kull 10 for the warm welcome in Lillehammer and kull 11 for this crazy project we built together - what talent you injected in there.

Thanks to my colleagues at Aho who supported me through the last stretch of my PhD with generosity and understanding. This has been the most wonderful and stimulating work environment to finish my PhD.

Thanks to Evil Doghouse, in particular Ingrid Nordby, Egil Odegard and Varon Bonicos, for being collaborators, friends, and supports throughout the years.

Thanks to my reviewers and proofreaders, who often had to help me a bit too close to the blade, Dr. Carole Lipsyc,  Dr. Christy Dena, Dr. Josina Wink, Dr. Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos, Dr. Cecilie Levy.

Thanks to my friends and artistic collaborators for having injected juice, support and inspiration in this work throughout the years.

Thanks to the “Reactor Core”; Karolina Soltys, Mo Holkar, Laura Woods, Dr. Willoh Osmond, David Owen, Patrik Balint & Warren Merrifield. Our discussions, retreats, collaborations and care have lifted me and this practice throughout the years. Merci à mes sœurcières, Juliette Lancel, Leï Teteau Surel, Fé & Blue, vous m’avez tellement appris et changée dans tellement de domaines !

Thanks to my oldest friend, my sister Sarah-Béhia Kangha, who has maintained consistent supportive words and presence in all times of my life and throughout this research. Your strength, beauty and generosity have always been an inspiration.

Thanks to my Oslo family, Inna Hansen, Martin Kvale, Enrique Encinas, Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos, Josina Wink, Hilda Levin & Erlend S. Bruer. You clever, open-minded and kind bunch have all kept me stimulated, safe and sane.

Many thanks to the larp community, in the Nordics and in France, for this grand dedication to play, to sharing, to growing together. I know no other community that is so deviantly creative, safe and bizarre and I am excited to continue seeing us expand and diversify.

In particular, thanks to the Knutepunkt conference community and companion books editors, as well as to Nordic Larp.org for its fantastic volunteer-based publishing and archiving mission.

Thanks to the VR community for its experimentalism and generous help, another place where I have made friends thanks to this fellowship.

Thanks to my final exhibition team for bringing the Woods to life once more, you’ve all been so resourceful and so kind during those last weeks of what was for me 6 years of work. Brynhild Dagslott, Trond Lossius, Jon Werede Hope, Fredrik Skrattegård, Anna Stina Eyjolfsdottir & Uffe Mullvad.

And lastly but firstly, thanks to Carole Lipsyc, my mother, always first advisor, always first proofreader. Your incredible knowledge and mind have brought me countless references and threads I only had to pull. I feel very privileged and lucky to have received your endless teachings and pluriform support, being your daughter is a great wealth.

To all of you mentioned above and those whom I have forgotten, thank you for making it possible for me to do this work.