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Sami and Mexican Dance in Stockholm

  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 musi
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Preparing Sami-Lakota Dialogues in Gothenburg

  What can a cod concert sound like? What can be learned from animal communication? How do we understand animals ? Can water be a being? Animals communicate amongst each other. Their communication offer new perspectives on language and a peek into a fascinating non-human world. Experience music based on the cods mating calls, learn more about how seal pups communicate and how Water can be viewed as the first form of consciousness on the planet. A group of artists, researchers and activists will reflect on these questions on April 18. We will collaborate with Morgondagens konstpublik to bring Lakota activist Tiokasin Ghosthorse to Sweden. To prepare, we organise a one day workshop on March 12 together with and at Sjöfartsmuseet in Gothenburg. Sjöfartsmuseet, Akvariet, Ocean Lab, Karl Johansgatan 1-3, Gothenburg

In Mexico

  We have been carrying out research in Mexico in January and will be in residency at El Dia D , Queretaro, January 21 – February 12, 2024. During this time we will be working with artists and choreographers from Mexico and Canada and developing new work. Together artists, dancers and musicians will investigate the overlaps between Sami and Mexican cultures and ontologies and use these to create new visual, musical and dance expressions.

New Technology and Sami Culture

  - Welcome to a concert at Teatermaskinen , on September 8 at 20.30 Sami shaman, Jonas Engman will perform in trance together with Per Huttner at Teatermaskinen , on September 8 at 20.30. The performance will beging with Engman singing and playing his drum. He will be wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) and Huttner will improvise music in real time using Engman’s brain activity. The concert offers a unique opportunity to experience traditional animism in dialogue with cutting edge medical, musical and performative technology.

Reflections on Death at Ä’vv Skolt Sami Museum

- Jean Claude Saintilus, Jean-Louis Huhta and Per Huttner perform at Ä’vv Skolt Sami Museum in Neiden June 8, 2018.   We are proud to invite you to a performance by visual artists and musicians from Haiti and Sweden at Ä’vv Skolt Sami Museum in Neiden. The performance offers a unique blend between conceptual art, contemporary music, Voodoo practices and brings them into dialogue with the cultures of the arctic. The performers improvise using video projections, texts and create music using modular synthesizers, percussion and voice. They merge experimental music, traditional music and electronic dance music into a performative unity. The performance will be developed during a residency at Pikene på Broen in Kirkenes. In the “The Boundaries of Death Challenged” they will focus on how views on human mortality informs and shapes our every day existence. The project brings together two distinct and opposing cosmologies: on the one hand, the secular, sci