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.

2025-09-19

The Liminal participates in Eftercenter


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“Eftercenter” is a platform initiated by choreographers Sebastian Lingserius and Nefeli Oikonomou. It explores alternative after-processes in dance, in other words, strategies to evaluate choreographic process. During the Loveboost-festival at Weld in Stockholm, the artists’ “after documents” will be exhibited. These are visual, textual and performative traces that have emerged from the evaluation of choreographic projects. The work includes reflection, public discussions and post-documentation. Vision Forum is present with the project The Liminal.

Opening September 23 at 7:00 PM
The exhibition is open throughout the festival (23-28 September).
Norrtullsgatan 7
113 29 Stockholm

info[at]weld.se

2025-08-19

Friends and Strangers is out


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Friends and Strangers  is out. Friends and Strangers is a game that has been developed by åbäke and Per Hüttner to inspire new conversations. It includes 54 cards and 108 questions or tasks to be carried out by strangers to become friends and by friends to go deeper into friendship. Use it to turn a stranger into a friend (by getting to know them) or turn a friend into a stranger (by revealing unknown aspects of their inner worlds.) In order to make the most of the experience, we invite you to try to surprise yourself and thereby surprising others.

How it works:

There are no correct answers in this game, just an infinite number of reflections to share. Strangers and Friends has no losers, only players. Each card you draw has a question that

you discuss with the other players for as long as you like. Or it has a task that you carry out if you so wish. It is designed to be used in any situation: with your sister, at a family gathering or holiday, on a date or on a train. When you play Strangers and Friends you are NOT your values. You can test your own priorities. Why not try a stance that normally isn’t your own? Opposing positions should be fun. Make it your utmost priority to listen to the other person’s views. Agreeing is by no means a prerequisite. Rhetoric is welcomed, but synthesis of different opinions is not necessary. The mantra is “thesis, antithesis and prosthesis” rather than “thesis, antithesis and synthesis.” Avoid politics, social media and by all means polarisation between points of view. Prioritise curiosity, discovery and sharing rather than criticality. The goal is to have fun together, rather than striving to appear brilliant in front of others. Listening is more important than speaking (especially on a date!) and exchange more important than each person’s values and opinions. If you feel that you are being attacked, voice it. It does not mean that the other person is attacking you, it is time to move on to the next question. You can skip any question or activity that is not to your liking or that the circumstances make hard to carry out.

The publication has been supported by Längmanska kulturfonden and was published for Curatorial Mutiny’s 20th anniversary. Order your copy (12 euros + P&P) by dropping us a line on info [at] visionforum.eu.

2025-08-04

IKFKOS in the Heart of Sami Country


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Our sister organisation IKFKOS will carry out a workshop on a burial mound outside Krokvik, close to Kiruna in northern Sweden August 13-18, 2025. The work will focus on examining mankind’s connection to nature: to nature that is pulsating inside us and to nature which is sprawling and sprouting around us. Special attention will be paid to reflections about how contemporary Western civilisation breeds insensitivity to the natural vibrations within us and around us. We will reflect on how we, through rationality, have lost the connection to the outside world which is instead shaped by ideas and ideologies. This world view makes us focus on regrets about the past and the future and takes focus from life here and now. In the workshop we will investigate how, through traditional Sami and Kven knowledge and the arts, can reconnect to life in new and inspiring ways.

The group is made up of representatives from traditional Sami and Kven communities as well as practitioners in theatre, dance, music and visual art. The group will also be joined by an experienced medium. They will organise a public event at 15.00 on August 16. Please drop a line to info [at] visionforum.eu if you want to join the group.

2025-05-25

xLEPH in Residency in Paris


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The Franco-Swedish music collective xLEPH returns to La Generale in Paris for their second residency, June 2-9, 2025.

The collective has worked extensively with hypnosis and hypnotherapy in their performances and musical compositions in the last few years. For instance, in their performance at La Generale in 2023, both the audience and performers were under different levels of hypnotically induced trance.

During the residency they will synthesise and develop their work with hypnosis further. The residency will culminate in a radio-show for P-node, 8-9pm on June 9, 2025, entitled Hypno-collage. The radio show is a collective hypnotic journey. It brings together memories and traces of various artistic investigations where hypnosis has been used as well as snippets from preparatory hypnosic session. These are coupled with new music, new interviews along with real-time dialogues in the studio.

The hypnotic radio journey, is an artistic collage for anyone who is interested in music, art or the boundaries of the human mind and its perception of the world. The conversations will mostly be in French interspersed with shorter interludes in English. You can listen to it here. (https://p-node.org/residencies/xleph)

The residency is co-organised together with the EEGsynth association in Paris.

2025-05-13

The Liminal in residency at Weld and Höjden


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The Liminal, a new performance by Carima Neusser will be shown at Weld in Stockholm May 23-25 2025. You can order your tickets here.

The Liminal team with members from Sweden, Ireland, Finland, France, Portugal and Åland will be in residence at Höjden and at Weld in May 2025 to prepare for the event.

The Liminal is a mobile laboratory that moves between different European urban locations. The work is a collective investigation, where the team is actively involved in shaping the results. The final performance will be first shown in Stockholm and we hope that it will tour in Europe soon. The project is supported by The Nordic Culture Fund, Svenska kulturfonden, Kulturbryggan and co-produced with Vision Forum.

2025-04-07

Trees and CO2 in Tunisia


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Curatorial Mutiny and Vision Forum are organising an 5 day workshop in Tunis and Bizerte in Tunisia April 9-13, 2025. During the workshop the team will develop the project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” with their Tunisian partners.

“In our working process we focus primarily on trees’ and their inner signalling. We use the PepiPIAF technology to measure changes in their inner. This non-invasive technology is attached to a branch of a tree. It measures the changes in pressure and temperature inside the actual tree, based on how sap moves. It shows how a tree adapts itself to changes of temperature, season, and daily rhythm. From these measurements we can derive information about how the tree grows and to a certain degree how it adapts to outside changes. You can find more info about the PepiPIAF here. (In French only.) We also record the sounds that the tree makes as it grows using specially designed microphones. These sounds are then modulated by the data from the tree and by human digital musical tools.”

During the workshop the Franco-Swedish team will work will artists Soufia Bensaid and Hela Lamine. A public presentation will be held outside Bizerte on April 12. The program starts at 14h. Please drop us an e-mail (info [at] visionforum.eu) if you want to join. Participation is free, but the number of places limited.

Do Trees Dream of CO2 is supported by Kulturbryggan.

2025-03-30

Alpha Xiao in Helsinki


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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.

Alpha Xiao has been in residency at La Generale in Paris March 26 – April 1, 2025 to prepare for the concert at Vuotalo Culture Centre, Helsinki. Their concert forms a part of Akusmata Polyphonic. Other performers include Koray Tahiroğlu and The Loopers’ Orchestra.

AKUSMATA POLYPHONIC 2025. Friday, April 4, 2025. Time: 18-20h Vuotalo Culture Centre, Helsinki.

Entrance is free.

Alpha Xiao’s participation in Akusmata Polyphonic is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.

2025-03-10

Alpha Xiao in Residency in Paris

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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 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 Stockholm venues, in Paris and they are preparing for a concert i Helsinki. Alpha Xiao has also created music for Fabien Guillermont and Toan Van Che’s full-length documentary “Reality Check” in 2024.

Alpha Xiao will be in residency at La Generale in Paris March 26 – April 1, 2025. During the residency they focus on new technology to modulate the flute’s sound in real time and make the influence of the EEG and microbes’ activity more central to their sound.

Listen to Alpha Xiao on Soundcloud.

 

2025-02-18

Energy in Balance in Copenhagen

 


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Two international, artistic networks, the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT) and Vision Forum are creating a three-day event in and for Copenhagen in collaboration with Danish curator Laura Goldschmidt.

“Energy in Balance” looks for new perspectives on the human body by bringing together knowledge from the arts, philosophy, science and kinesiology. The working group aims to use the acquired knowledge to develop new and visionary works of art.

The working process will focus on the human body and how it hosts

knowledge outside of consciousness, the cerebral and the rational. Such knowledge is seen as an ideal in movements such as Zen Buddhism. Relevant questions for discussions in the project include:

- The human body knows perfectly well how to operate its immune system. How is this possible, although science knows only a fraction how it works?
- How can an unborn baby know how to create its own body?
- How can we access such knowledge and what traditions can help us in the process?
- When we speak of intuition, is that an intellectual of bodily process?
- How does the body’s knowledge, as discussed above, play a role in art-making and the creative process?

The goal of the event is for the organizers to learn together with artists, curators, health-workers and the general public in the Danish capital.

The goal  is not to find conclusive answers to such questions, but to reflect on how a slightly altered perspective on human (and non-human) knowledge can be of use in art-making and in healing. The organisers want to collectively understand how we can think differently about our bodies and how such a change in perspective might affect our lives.

The project is partially funded by Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse and Nordic Culture Fund

 

PROGRAM (Please not that only Wednesday February 26 is open to the public)

Monday, February 24, afternoon and evening:
Mid-day: Arrival at Q
Internal symposium to present our work/research and formulate shared questions.
Time to experiment.

Tuesday, February 25, 10:00 to 16:00:
(Program, open to students, faculty, guests at Q)
10:00: Carima Neusser and Per Hüttner
The Human Microbiome and Art – the work of Vision Forum and the project Governing Bodies (45 min)
11:00: Dafna Maimon
Utilizing Body-Mind-Centering for Creative Practice, workshop (90 min)
We will explore a medley of exercises inspired by Body-Mind-Centering focusing on our organs, cellular breathing, and sounding. Comfortable clothing and an open, playful presence are welcomed. Bo prior experience necessary.
Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind.

12:30: Lunch break

13 :30: Annemarie Goldschmidt, Kinesiology Workshop (90 min) This workshop will give you the knowledge to use kinesiology on the way you want to go, to move on.
15:00: Coffee break
15:30: Mia Damhus, How to eat artistically (60 min) Feeding the microbiota seems to be the most important factor in achieving bodymind balance. Mia’s lecture will look at our understanding of the body, from cells to organs, and how nutrition has been understood from the reductionist era until the present.
16:30: Olav Westphalen: Welcome to the Palliative Turn, Short lecture about the work of the APT (Association for the Palliative Turn) plus some games using sound or drawing (60 min)

Wednesday, February 26, 14:00 to late:
(open to public)

14:00: Laura Goldschmidt
Welcome address, a curator’s take on Bodymind (15 min)
14:30: Dafna Maimon: Video screening, new work, never seen before (45 min)
16:15 Annemarie Goldschmidt: The Behavioral Barometer, lecture (60 min)
17:30 Coffee/Snacks/socializing (time for set-up)
18:00: Olav Westphalen: Quintett,  gut songs (30 min)
18:45: Carima Neusser: Choreography and the Body (30 min)
19:30: Per Hüttner and Robert Oostenveld: Microbes’ Agency: Performance – Microbes influencing sound and images in real time (30 min)

2024-11-19

Malmö Microbes Mayhem

 

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The team working with “Microbes in The Desert of The Real – The Simple and The Complex” will show their work at Hallwylska museet in Stockholm in November 2025. Carima Neusser who is a member of the team is in residency at Dansstationen in Malmö November 19-24, 2024 to prepare for the presentation in Stockholm.

Microbes offer an interesting way into complexity. Their small size and the fact that they are everywhere connects them to other complex systems and their influence cannot be understated. Without microbes there would be no life on this planet, and small changes can have profound consequences for other interconnected complex systems.

French poet Paul Valéry wrote: “If it’s simple, it’s always false. If it’s not, it’s unusable.” It is important to be able to simplify ideas without losing the complexities underpinning them, but how do we do that?

The world is full of unknown unknowns and to help us sort all of this out and extend our knowledge increasingly complex computer programs are being used.  But there is a problem with this. As computer models or simulations become increasingly complex they also become harder to understand. This is referred to as Bonini’s paradox.

“Microbes in The Desert of The Real – The Simple and The Complex” is supported by Nordic Culture Fund (through Morgondagens konstpublik) and Kulturbryggan.

2024-11-01

Zygote Workshop in Stockholm


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- Zygote is preparing new proto-events that will be shown at Weld in Stockholm in spring 2025.

Zygote is project where performance artists, dancers, musicians and researchers in foetal development are working together. Zygote is a mobile laboratory that moves between different Swedish urban and natural locations. The work is a collective investigation, where the audience is actively involved in shaping the results.

The process does not result in a final performance, instead the working group conducts a series of ongoing investigations together with different audience groups. We call these proto-performances. This makes the work an ongoing and investigative process.

The Zygote team with members from Ireland and Åland will be in residence at Höjden in Stockholm November 9-16, 2024.

Zygote is supported by Kulturbryggan.

2024-09-18

Do Trees Dream of Oasises

 

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Curatorial MUtiny is organising an 8 day workshop in Tunis, Sousse and Gabes in Tunisia September 30 – October 7. During the workshop the team will investigate if the outcomes of the project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” can be applied to palm trees. Palm trees are technically not trees, but plants, so it will be interesting to see what can be done:

“In our working process we focus primarily on trees’ and their inner signalling. We use the PepiPIAF technology to measure changes in their inner. This non-invasive technology is attached to a branch of a tree. It measures the changes in pressure and temperature inside the actual tree, based on how sap moves. It shows how a tree adapts itself to changes of temperature, season, and daily rhythm. From these measurements we can derive information about how the tree grows and to a certain degree how it adapts to outside changes. You can find more info about the PepiPIAF here. (In French only.) We also record the sounds that the tree makes as it grows using specially designed microphones. These sounds are then modulated by the data from the tree and by human digital musical tools.”

During the workshop the Franco-Swedish team will work will artists Soufia Bensaid and Hela Lamine. Amonst other things, they will visit and work with Association De Sauvegarde De L’Oasis De Chenini Gabes – ASOC and make a public presentation at Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Sousse on October 7.

Do Trees Dream of CO2 is supported by Kulturbryggan.

2024-09-02

Performance at Teatermaskinen


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Curatorial Mutiny has organised a a dance workshop that focused on Nordic romantic art at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan. On September 28 at 8pm, They will present the outcome of their work at Teatermaskinen. Participants come from Sweden, Norway and Finland.

They work has been led by Ricardo Rubio, who  is a Mexican choreographer, poet, and performance artist.

Entrance is free. Please visit the Teatermaskinen website for directions. The event is supported by OPSTART at Nordic Culture fund.