Swedish Performance at Exile City, 16th Gwangju Biennial 2026

Swedish choreographer and performance artist Carima Neusser and Paris-based artist and musician Per Hüttner propose two thematically linked performances for the finissage of Exile City, November 23, at the 16th Gwangju Biennial 2026 . The artists present one solo performance each. The two pieces have a strong visual presence and reflect on exile and cultural belonging in different ways.

Per Huttner presents a new performance entitled “Microbes in Exile.” During the performance he creates music and moving 3D images. For the piece he collaborates with neuroscientist Robert Oostenveld who studies microbes under a microscope in the Netherlands. The data of the microbes moving will be sent of the internet and will influence both sound and image in real time. He will also incorporate images of the microbes moving in the piece that will also be sent in real time. Thematically, sound and images focuses on the writings of Korean philosopher Byung Chul Han, especially from the book “The Expulsion of the Other,” which looks at what he calls the “terror of the same” in the digital age.

Carima Neusser will present a new performance that is based on Franz Kafka’s “The Castle.” The unfinished novel constitutes an excellent starting point to reflect on exile. In the book, like in the performance, the main protagonist is locked onto a very clear goal – to reach the castle. But does this goal constitute a way to go home or find a new place to create one’s existence remains unclear?  The premise allows Neusser to dialogue with the audience and to reflect on what it means to belong to a community, culture or country – at home and in exile. Neusser’s practice hails from dance, so although light, music, props and costume (She uses props like mirrors, prisms and reflective fabrics that affect the architecture around her.) is central to the performance, her physical movements in the space carries a lot of weight. Through her dance practice she looks into the potential of the human body to express itself in new ways.

Research into the Life and work of Ivan Aguéli

 

We at Curatorial Mutiny will continue our research into the Life and work of the Swedish artist and mystic Ivan Aguéli. On Saturday October 17, we will undertake research with the Egyptian artist Mina Nasr at the Aguéli Museum in Sala in Sweden. On October 20, we will organise a public talk at AllArtNow in Stockholm in dialogue with Swedish-Syrian curaor Abir Boukhari. The talk will start at 16.00 and we will focus on that Aguéli searched for truth through introspection. In this informal presentation, we will take Aguéli as a starting point to reflect on whether introspection is a universal human trait and whether it can serve as a foundation for cross-cultural dialogue. In other words, do we all sometimes look inward, and can what we find help us engage in dialogues across cultural boundaries?

AllArtNow Lab
Älvkarleövägen 6, Stockholm (Metro Ropsten)

in Kurdistan

October 21, 2026 · by admin · in Uncategorized · Edit

Curatorial Mutiny will participate in the 10th edition of the SPACE21 Festival, which will take place at SPACE21 Sound Gallery and various locations in Slemani, in Iraqi Kurdistan 30.10 – 02.11.2026. Please find the program below.

30.10 – 02.11.2026 @ SPACE21 Sound Gallery & Variuos locations in Slemani
The 10th edition of the SPACE21 Festival transforms Slemani into a living soundscape, featuring immersive installations in public spaces, site-specific performances and more by local and international artists. Explore the city’s acoustic and ecological layers through sound archives, experimental music, and collective listening.

19.10 – 29.10 ~ Youth Workshop
SPACE21 Youth Workshop engages youth in attentive listening walks, collaborative composition, and sound-making. These activities encourage participants to creatively explore Slemani’s sonic ecology and history through sound. By blending environmental awareness and artistic practice, the workshop fosters confidence and collaboration. Participants learn to map memory and place through listening, forging a deeper connection to Slemani’s past and present while inspiring new sonic perspectives.

30.10 – 6:00PM ~ Women’s Voices & Tuning Archive Project & Local Collector
Archive Khanah – Part of the SPACE21 Festival presents two projects: “Women’s Voices: Kurdish Sound Archive and Beyond” dedicated to Kurdish sonic memory and archival storytelling. The focus is on rare historical recordings of women’s voices from across Kurdistan, with a panel discussion and sound exhibition led by Zeyneb Yas Salam and her team, followed by live performances that creatively reinterpret the traditional dengbêj style. The second project digitises the landmark collection of Shwan Oscar, a key collector in Slemani, Kurdistan. Creating this new digitised collection will mark the beginning of a decentralised archive that brings together local collectors and sound artists across the region. We also present Anwar Qaradaghi’s private archive collection.

31.10 – 08:00AM ~ Radio Bus Tour
Radio Bus Tour is a collective listening journey that transforms a moving bus into a radio-based exhibition space. It revisits Kurdish bus culture as a site of shared experience and social connection, bringing together broadcasts, music, and stories that unfold in real time during transit. The project frames mobility as a space of unity, where sound becomes a medium for collective memory and public listening.

30.10 – 3:00PM ~ The Synthesiser Bazaar
The Synthesiser Bazaar is a sound installation presented outside the Saray Building. Drawing on the vibrant atmosphere of Slemani’s music markets, where cassette culture, wedding musicians, synthesisers, and imported technologies converge, the work transforms the exhibition into a living sonic environment. By bringing these sounds to the doorstep of the city’s former administrative centre, the installation connects everyday urban life with historical memory, reimagining the archive as an active, evolving space of listening.

31.10 – 6:00PM ~ Listening to The hammam
This evening listening session invites audiences to explore the sonic memories of the hammam through stories, recordings, and collective listening. Once central to social and cultural life, the hammam was a space of conversation, ritual, echo, and gathering. Through personal recollections and sound-based narratives, the session traces how these acoustic environments shape memory and community, offering an intimate reflection on the sounds that continue to resonate beyond the bathhouse’s walls.

01.11 – 11:00AM ~ Sonic Ecology symposium
SPACE21 with the University of Sulaimani, Slemani Sonic Horizon organises a mini conference on sonic ecology, youth empowerment, and inclusive pedagogy, combining talks, panels, listening sessions, and workshops to explore sound as a force shaping cultural and social futures. Radio Resonance Collective is a participatory radio and listening project that connects artists and communities to share memories, engage in dialogue, and explore collaborative sound practices. Transcending Research is a practice-led framework using sound, storytelling, and archives to rethink knowledge through place, memory, and community engagement.

01.11 – 6:00PM ~ Live Performance – Resonance of History
Maryam Al Adra Church, among Slemani’s oldest buildings, preserves memory through unique acoustics, each sound connecting visitors to the city’s enduring spirit and history.

02.11 – 6:00PM ~ Live Performance – Sounds of Smoke
For SPACE21’s final day, we gather for a performance, shared food, and listening together. Like smoke, sound moves through a space and leaves traces beyond its walls. An invitation to share memories, spend time together, and listen to what lingers and what we carry with us.

With Dionysus in Stockholm

Curatorial Mutiny is happy to have been given a  residency at Dansens Hus in Stockholm September 1- 7-, 2026. The team will be developing a project with the title “Cocktail” which Carima Neusser has been working on since late 2025 and that we have presented in Mexico and Brazil before. She has been offered a technical residency to develop the piece further. 

A public presentation will be held September 11, at 18.00. If you want to attend, you need to be 18 years or older. Drop us a line on curatorialmutiny [at] gmail.com if you want to come. Welcome!!!!

The Dynamic Paris

Curatorial Mutiny is proud to participate in “Dynamique” at Galerie de la Moulinette in Paris 18-24 July 2026. Many of our long term collaborators like Laurent Deveze, Fabien Guillermont and Per Huttner show work within the the framework of the exhibition. The show looks at questions that are raised in “Les grecs, leur mythes et nous” (The Greeks, their Myths and Us) by Laurent Deveze that (as the title suggests) looks at how ancient Greek myths can be used to understand who we are. 

Animal Communication in Stockholm

Do animals communicate? Is there also important communication between species? If so, what can be learned from how animals communicate and can we facilitate dialogues between species?

Science tries to understand how animals communicate amongst each themselves.  Their communication offer new perspectives on language and a peek into a fascinating non-human world. Vision Forum is developing a fascinating new project that investigates how animals communicate and what the arts can learn from it. The group meets in Stockholm at Tekniska museet May 19 and 20, 2026 to develop a program that will be available for the general public in 2027.

The project is a collaboration with Vision Forum and is supported by Längmanska kulturfonden.

Performance Enigma book release

Vision Forum is proud to announce the book release of Performance Enigma at Hökarängens Antikvariat & Skivbörs, Saturday May 9 at 16h. Address: Pepparvägen 4, 123 56 Stockholm.

The book investigates and unravels Per Hüttner’s multifaceted performances, spanning artistic inquiry from 1988 to 2024. His work constitutes a labyrinth of intertwining perspectives and mirrors a multidisciplinary practice that bridges music, dance, neuroscience and more. At the book’s core lies a meditation on the ephemeral nature of performance; a medium that defies preservation and resists commodification, standing as a political act in an age fixated on documentation.

Offering a dynamic, non-linear exploration of art as process rather than object, Performance Enigma invites countless interpretations, each shaped by the reader’s journey through its pages, coalescing into a kaleidoscopic vision that questions how we see and interpret the world at large. Events become fragments, and fragments spark narratives; challenging our understanding of memory, perception, and the human condition.

Texts and editing by Freddie Ross with further texts by Carima Neusser and the artist. All the contributors will be present and it will be followed by a concert by Alpha Xiao.

Graphic Design by Erik Månsson. The book has been created with support from Längmanska kulturfonden.