2026-05-06

Performance Enigma book release


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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.

Alpha Xiao in Hökis


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Alpha Xiao has been active in its musical exploration of mental and musical space since 2020. They often collaborate with other musicians and artists in different constellations such as Sebastian Campbell of God Mother, Petri Kuljantausta and Olav Westphalen. They have played extensively in various European venues in Sweden, Finland, Belgium, France and Germany. Alpha Xiao has also created music for Fabien Guillermont and Toan Van Che’s full-length documentary “Reality Check” in 2024.

Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group using a portable electroencephalograph (EEG) and microbial activity to modulate designed audio samples in real time as well as a traditional Chinese flute called a Xiao. The two person constellation focuses musically on connectivity through rough sketches of compositions, sounds and themes. As brain waves and non-human life expressions influence certain dynamics of the sound, and vice versa, a type of feedback loop is generated between the activities of the technology and sound produced ad infinitum.

Alpha Xiao plays live at Hökarängens Antikvariat & Skivbörs, Saturday May 9 at 17h. Address: Pepparvägen 4, 12356 Stockholm

There are a small number of tickets left, make sure to book at ticket by writing to “hokarangensantikvariat [at] gmail.com.”

Listen to Alpha Xiao on Soundcloud.

2026-04-18

“One Step Closer to the Abyss” on tour in Finland


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‘One Step Closer to the Abyss’ is a musical collaboration between London-based composer and musician Tomas Nordmark and Paris-based musician and artist Per Hüttner, both originally from Sweden. On ‘One Step Closer to the Abyss’ the electronic music is improvised in a digital environment. The two artists have been inspired from the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher and his publication ‘‘The Weird and The Eerie’ (2017). The music is not only improvised but also, using bespoke hard- and software, modulated in real time from a participant’s brainwaves for an additional layer of spontaneity. The recording was made at Permian, a microscopic venue for improvised music situated in a basement in the Tokyo ward Shinagawa. The pulse from the Japanese capital is thereby also present in the recorded improvisation, filtered down to a slow, modulated and minimalistic, dub-oriented ambient soundscape.

‘One Step Closer to the Abyss’ will be available for streaming and on vinyl from April 24, 2026.

The dates for the Finnish tour are:

Black Sheep Pub, Jakobstad, 20.00, April 29.
Ääniasema festival, Jyväskylä, 19-23h, May 1.
- Korjaamo, Helsinki, 18.30, May 2.

2026-02-16

CM returns to Sao Paulo



 

Swedish choreographer and performance artist Carima Neusser and Paris-based artist and musician Per Hüttner both have been returning to work in Brazil regularly. They have previously presented performances with institutions like Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. The two artists will return to Sao Paulo in February 2026 to present new work that has been developed in Mexico during a 2,5 month residency in Mexico City.

The artists will present one solo performance each. The two pieces are thematically linked, since both artists work with the speculative idea that human culture is built on narratives. From this perspective religion, science, social conventions and politics can be seen as narratives that co-exist to allow humans to negotiate their relationship with the surrounding world. The human condition can in other words be seen as a negotiation between the real and the stories we tell about the real.

The artists ask what happens to music, dance and performance art when we apply this speculative grid to such cultural expressions. The artists both investigate the potential of non-verbal or non-linguistic narratives. This is natural, since when one is working professionally with performance, without relying on text, one presupposes that the audience can take in narratives that are conveyed outside of written or spoken language. The two artists reflect on the nature and implications of such forms of communication.

Per Hüttner (www.perhuttner.com) is mostly known for using real time bio-feedback technologies (such as electroencephalogram) for creating his performances. For his presentation in Brazil in 2026 he returns to creating and presenting work where his body and voice take centre stage, using sound, props and moving images. He will also use robots that have been specially developed for the performance, in collaboration with Dutch neuroscientist Robert Oostenveld.

Carima Neusser (www.carimaneusser.com) will present a new performance where light, music, props and costume become intimately entangled into one coherent presentation. Her movements influence the sound and the light on the stage. She also uses props like mirrors, prisms and reflective fabrics that affect the architecture around her. The use of objects, dance and live music allows her, as well the audience, to get a different understanding about the mysteries of the human condition as well as the potential of the human body to express itself differently.

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Performance Sueca em São Paulo em fevereiro de 2026

A coreógrafa e artista da performance sueca Carima Neusser e o artista visual e músico Per Hüttner, radicado em Paris, mantêm uma relação contínua com o Brasil, retornando regularmente ao país para desenvolver e apresentar seus trabalhos. Ambos já realizaram performances em instituições como a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo e o Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Em fevereiro de 2026, os dois artistas voltarão a São Paulo para apresentar novos trabalhos desenvolvidos no México, ao longo de uma residência artística de dois meses e meio na Cidade do México.

Cada artista apresentará uma performance solo, sendo que as duas obras se articulam a partir de um mesmo eixo conceitual. Ambos partem da ideia especulativa de que a cultura humana é construída por narrativas. Sob essa perspectiva, religião, ciência, convenções sociais e política podem ser compreendidas como narrativas que coexistem e permitem aos seres humanos negociar sua relação com o mundo ao redor. A condição humana aparece, assim, como uma negociação constante entre o real e as histórias que contamos sobre o real.

É a partir desse enquadramento que os artistas investigam o que acontece com a música, a dança e a arte da performance quando submetidas a essa lógica narrativa. O interesse comum recai sobre o potencial de narrativas não verbais ou não linguísticas. Trabalhar profissionalmente com performance sem recorrer ao texto pressupõe que o público seja capaz de apreender sentidos e narrativas transmitidos fora da linguagem escrita ou falada. As duas obras, portanto, refletem sobre a natureza, os limites e as implicações dessas formas de comunicação.

Per Hüttner (www.perhuttner.com) é conhecido principalmente por utilizar tecnologias de biofeedback em tempo real (como o eletroencefalograma) na criação de suas performances. Para sua apresentação no Brasil em 2026, ele retorna à criação e apresentação de trabalhos em que seu corpo e sua voz ocupam o centro da cena, utilizando som, objetos cênicos e imagens em movimento. Ele também utilizará robôs desenvolvidos especialmente para a performance, em colaboração com o neurocientista holandês Robert Oostenveld.

Carima Neusser (www.carimaneusser.com) apresentará uma nova performance na qual luz, música, objetos cênicos e figurino se entrelaçam intimamente em uma apresentação coesa. Seus movimentos influenciam o som e a luz no palco. Ela também utiliza objetos como espelhos, prismas e tecidos reflexivos que afetam a arquitetura ao seu redor. O uso de objetos, dança e música ao vivo permite que ela — assim como o público — alcance uma compreensão diferente sobre os mistérios da condição humana e sobre o potencial do corpo humano de se expressar de outras formas.

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SERVIÇO

Apresentações dos Artistas Suecos Carima Neusser e Per Hüttner

Local: SP Escola de Teatro – Unidade Roosevelt (Praça Franklin Roosevelt, 210, Consolação)

Data: 20/02, sex. às 20h30

Ingressos: Gratuitos

Vendas somente pela internet na Sympla SP Escola de Teatro – www.sympla.com.br/produtor/spescoladeteatro

Lotação: 60 lugares

Duração: 75 min

Classificação: 18 anos

2025-11-23

Possessed by Microbes at Weld, November 30


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Between 2018-2022 a group of artists and researchers from many European countries met, discussed, cooked, ate and made interdisciplinary art events about the microbes that humans live in symbiosis with. The members of the group share a deep interest in how humankind’s growing understanding about the microbes in the human body influence humankind’s understanding of itself and our place in the world. Their collective experiences form the basis for a publication that shed light on how microbes influence our health and our personality.

With the starting point in the book some of the contributors to the book will talk, together with the audience, how microbes influence our personality and behaviour. Maybe microbes can (partly) explain what possession and loss of self means?

Please join us for an informal talk Sunday November 30, 17.00 at Weld in Central Stockholm. Everyone is welcome, entrance is free and no booking required. Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7 (t-bana Odenplan)

113 29 Stockholm

The book is edited by Freddie Ross in 2022. It was designed by Erik Månsson. The publication is supported by Längmanska kulturfonden

2025-11-21

Tomas Nordmark and Per Hüttner Release Events and Concerts in Sweden


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Tomas Nordmark and Per Hüttner announces vinyl release of their performance in Tokyo. The 40 minutes long performance recorded live at Permian in Tokyo will be released on vinyl and on streaming platforms fall/winter 2025. To celebrate the release the duo will announce new performances of the piece ‘One Step Closer to the Abyss’, previously performed in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Beijing, Paris and Sousse.

The performances will take place at 19.00, November 28 at Evigheten, Vulkangatan 3 in Norrköping and at 19.30, November 29 at P26 at Pipersgatan 26 in Stockholm
London based composer and musician Tomas Nordmark and Paris based musician and visual artist Per Hüttner have been working together since 2021. Together they develop creative and visionary performances using the technology platform the EEGsynth. The EEGsynth is a hard- and software platform that allows performers to create sounds and images using neural signals from the human nerves and brain. The technology is unique because it has been has been developed by European artists, musicians in close collaboration with neuroscientists since 2014. In the performances the artists use measurements of a performer’s brain signal on his/her head using an electro encephalogram (EEG) in real time.

You are welcome to join Nordmark and Hüttner for a performance using the EEGsynth technology. In the performance entitled “One Step Closer to the Abyss” they present music and images that are generated and modulated by a performers brain activity in real time. They work with sounds from a traditional electric guitar which has been modulated by the brain multiple times to create aesthetically interesting sounds. They also have dynamic visuals that are influenced in real time by the brain. The performance takes its inspiration from Mark Fisher’s writings and his reflections on the weird and the eerie: how humans and art deal with the unknown in their everyday and in artistic creation.

The EEGsynth platform is used by artists and researchers in Sweden, France, Norway, the Netherlands and in the UK. They use signals from the human brain, but also from trees, fish and microbes to create performances. The team has made over 80 performances and workshops in a number of European countries, Mexico, Egypt, Brazil and the US. There has been a lot of interest both in the performances and in the technology. For instance French film maker Fabien Guillermont has made a full length documentary on the project.

Per Hüttner is a Swedish visual artist who lives and works in Paris, France and in Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated from Konsthögskolan in Stockholm 1993. He also studied at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin 1991-1992. He is mostly known for his photographic work and for his interactive, changing and travelling exhibition projects. A number of monographs about his practice has been published including Per Hüttner, 2003; I am a Curator, 2004; Repetitive Time 2006, Xiao Yao You 2006 and Democracy and Desire 2007

Tomas Nordmark is a Swedish-born artist, composer and producer living and working in London, United Kingdom. He was educated at the Department of Culture and Society at the University of Linköping in Sweden where he studied Audio Culture and Contemporary Art. His compositions and works have been featured in opera, public installations, film, theatre plays and in exhibitions. Since 2019 he has released music on the Brooklyn-based label Valley of Search with live performances in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Helsinki, Ljubljana, Tokyo and more.

Composed and performed live by Per Hüttner and Tomas Nordmark at Permian | Tokyo, May 31, 2024

2025-10-15

Alpha Xiao releases new album


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Alpha Xiao is a brainwave, flute, synth music community. They use portable electro encephalagraph modulating audio samples (Per Huttner) combined with a Xiao flute (Andra Kalle) using the EEGsynth. They focus on connectivity through rough sketched compositions, as brain waves control dynamics of the sound, and vice versa, a feedback loop is generated with reciprocal influences and responses. Their music is an exploration of mental and musical and which they have been engaged in space since 2020. 

Their new album “La Generale” is out on Bandcamp now. Buy or listen here. You can also check out a video of two songs from a live gig in Helsinki from April 2025 here.