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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 January 9-16, 2025.

Please join us at Etnografiska in Stockholm at 6pm, October 9, 2024. Together with our sister organisation MKP, we organise an event called “Noche de Muertos”. Within the exhibition ¡Viva Mexico! dancers and performers from Sweden, Finland and Mexico will present performances specially conceived for the context, place and time. The performances have  been developed during a dance workshop at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan in September 2024. The work has been led by Ricardo Rubio, who is a Mexican choreographer, poet, and performance artist. The event offers a unique opportunity to experience the work of him. Ailish Maher and Carima Neusser are also performing. The event is supported by OPSTART at Nordic Culture fund. WELCOME!  

  With our our sister organisation MKP we organise a a dance workshop that focuses on Nordic romantic art and its relationship to indigenous culture. Did it create the deathblow to indigenous ontologies, or does it inspire to return to our roots? The workshop takes place at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan September 17-28. In the workshop we work together with Mexican choreographer Ricardo Rubio. Together dancers and musicians will investigate how 19th century romantic art can become an inspiration for new contemporary dance. Participants come from Sweden, Norway and Finland. Drop us a line at info [at] visionforum.eu if you want to join. Participation in the workshop is free. A public presentation will be held at Etnografiska in Stockholm on November 9. It will take place within the current exhibition on Mexican culture and how it relates to death. More info soon. The project is supported by Nordic Culture Fund's Opstart program. ...

  Performance program 20h, July 19, 2024.   Nour Justinia Hotel, Sousse, Tunisia. Organiser: Elbirou Art Gallery with AllArtNow with Ikfkos. Curators: Abir Boukhari & Karim Sghaier In conjunction with the UV biennial Vision Forum will present an evening of performances with Swedish and Tunisian artists working together. The project takes place in a centrally located hotel which is in the process of being renovated. The performances will take place outdoors in the hotel’s open yard.   Artists in the project: Wissem El-Abed (Tunisia), Severin Guelpa (Switzerland), Eleonore Josso (France), Amine Melki (Tunisia), Fredj Moussa (Tunisia/France), Asma Laajimi (Tunisia), Mouna Jemal Siala (Tunisia), Diogo Pereira (Portugal), Mohamed Ben Soltane (Tunisia), Ahlem Chihaoui (Tunisia), Nisrine Boukhari (Syria/Austria), Omar Bey (Tunisia), Mustapha Sedjal (Algeria/France), Selim Ben Cheikh (Tunisia), Shelley Vanderbyl (Canada), Khaled Abedrabbou (Tunisia), Mats ...

Ikfkos’s musical collective Xleph will be in residency at Teatermaskinen May 14-20. They will investigate if music and hypnotherapy together help us to be stronger in the formulation of our own relationship to nature today. They will do so by recording material under hypnosis which will be shaped into their first studio album. The individual members of the collective will also perform a public concert on May 18. Here are some reflections on the project: “Who is the real me?” is one of the most persistent questions in human history. It is a question that obviously has no simple answer. Still, we know that from the day we are born that we are influenced by the outside world. We are primarily shaped by our experiences of the natural environment. What happens when the technological influence becomes stronger and stronger? As our society gradually becomes more complex, the external pressure on each individual becomes stronger, it therefore becomes increasingly important to kno...

  IKFKOS organises a workshop where Sami and Mexican indigenous music, dance and philosophy meet. It takes place at Höjden in Stockholm March 28-31. The workshop is lead by Mexican choreographer Ricardo Rubio. Together dancers and musicians will investigate the overlaps between Sami and Mexican cultures and ontologies and use these to create new musical and dance expressions. Ricardo Rubio is a Mexican choreographer, poet, and performance artist. He is founder and current director of INTERflamenca as well as El Dia D. Both are based in Santiago de Queretaro in Central Mexico. His personal approach to creations can be found in dialogues between diverse disciplines like poetry, ethnography, performance and electronic media. He uses these to research the purpose of ancient rituals in Latin America and traditional dances in the contemporary world. He is interested in body expressions of movement which dialogue with electronic media: visual art-multimedia and sound art-electronic ...