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IKFKOS and Vision Forum organises the festival, Transformation IV in Sweden June 9-14, 2026. It takes a slightly different format than the previous iterations. The participating musicians focus on animism and shamanism and how contemporary music can learn form these practices and during their visit to Sweden, the musicians work together with a Sami shaman. They do so without letting go of the focus on biofeedback that has been the hallmark of the previous festivals. Public events will take place on June 12 and at The Outpost and in a  Sami kåta (traditional Sami house) both outside Riddarhyttan in central Sweden. Workshops with local musicians will also be held in Stockholm. Transformation IV is, as the name indicates, the fourth festival organised in different geographic locations. In spring 2019 Vision Forum organised the first Transformation festival. It investigated how naturally occurring nerve signals from muscle and brain can be used in musical composition and performance pr...

 IKFKOS is pleased to announce that we will be in residency in Mexico and Brazil in January and February 2026. The team will spend time in Mexico City and the states Chiapas, Oaxaca as well as a two week stin in Sao Paulo. Work will focus on developing work for the upcoming presentations in Sweden and in France. The work focuses on how indigenous cultures in the three countries can learn from each other. Performances will be presented in both countries in February 2026. In the performances sound recordings from natural sources recorded in in Sàpmi as well as contemporary and historical recordings of Noaidi, their drums and yoiks form an integrated part of the work.

  IKFKOS will carry out a workshop on a burial mound outside Krokvik, close to Kiruna 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 ...

  Jonas Engman who has worked in Sami shamanic traditions all his adult life will lead a workshop at Teatermaskinen June 14-17, 2025. During the workshop the group will focus on how contemporary sound and music can be incorporated into traditional Sami and Kven traditions and ceremonies, as well as how contemporary stage performers can learn from Sami and Kven practices. In the process the team (which include practitioners from theatre, dance, music and visual art) will use new technology that measure the bodily processes of the participants as well as the movements of the surrounding nature.) The workshop will be held in a traditional Sami Kåta. The workshop will include public performance in on June 15 and offers a unique opportunity to experience traditional animism in dialogue with cutting edge performative expressions. If you want to experience the performance, please write us on info [at] visionforum.eu.

Ikfkos fortsätter att samarbeta med mexikansk ursprungsbefolkning. En samisk representant och en svensk performancekonstnär reser till Mexiko för att arbeta med konstnärer från olika ursprungsbefolkningar. Målet med vistelsen är att fördjupa förståelsen för olika animistiska kulturer, både i Sverige och Mexiko och hur konsterna kan arbeta med denna kunskap. Arbetet är planerat att genomföras i December 2024. Mer info inom kort.

- 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.