When: May 10-11
Where: Kulturhuset and DOCH, Stockholm

Tio masterarbeten från DOCH

DOCH is for the first time examining students from the master program in new performative practices. The program has some of the most interesting students in circus, dance, choreography and performance. They have all explored their respective practices during two years and they are now ready to present the results.

Participants: Ulrika Berg, Louise Bjurholm (i samarbete med Henrik Agger),
Emelie Garmén, Josefine Larson Olin, Anna Pehrsson, Sandra Medina, Sara
Ruddock, Anette Sallmander, Sanna Söderholm och Rachel

For more information please see the DOCH webpage.

When: Tuesday May 28, 17.00-20.00 and Wednesday May 29, 13.00-16.00
Where: Teatern i D-huset, Valhallavägen 189, STDH

The actor in the moment of figuration – Fröken Julie

In the spring of 2011 the actress and director Anna Pettersson started an artistic development project posing the question: How can the moving picturebe interleaved within the narrative of the moving picture and the emobdied figuration in a performative expression? The result of this investigation led Anna to her interpretation of Förken Julie that she since then has done at numerous places in Sweden and abroad.

Please register before May 15 to Helena Falck, helena.falck@stdh.se or 08-12 05 31 52

When: Saturday, May 11, 6 pm
Where: The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Londonderry

Goldin+Senneby with James McAleavey (playwright), Eleanor Methven (actor), Philip Grant(anthropologist & former equity fund manager), Donald MacKenzie (sociologist), Anna Heymowska (set designer), Johan Hjerpe (graphic designer), and Ybodon (computer scientist)

The Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the UK and Ireland of Goldin+Senneby, VWAP. Their new project for CCA originates in Sweden, the home country of this artistic duo, circa 1780, when mineralogist August Nordenskiöld was secretly employed by King Gustav III to pursue alchemical research. Nordenskiöld was attempting to produce gold, which in the king’s view was necessary to boost the country’s wealth and sustain a war against Russia. Nordenskiöld’s covert agenda however was to make his discoveries available to all; ultimately aiming to abolish the “tyranny of money” by making gold worthless. Having identified analogous processes in late capitalism’s modes of production and accumulation, VWAPwill feature the commissioning of a speculative theatrical script and the development of a new algorithmic trading model to be tested in the financial markets of today. In the interplay between these two modes of speculation, the work gives itself over to the mysterious forces of capital that it simultaneously stages in the gallery.

For more information pleas see cca-derry-londonderry.org

When: June 5, 13:00
Where: M404 (HighTech), Sandgärdet, University of Borås

Anna Persson will defend her thesis Exploring textiles as materials for interaction design. The opponent will be Sarah Kettley, School of Arcitecture Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University. The public defence will be held in English.
The dissertation may be downloaded here.

When: Friday May 24, 2013, 14:00-18:00 to Saturday May 25, 10:00-15:00
Where: Dramatikeruddannelsen, Skolegade 19, 8000 Aarhus C

The seminar is arranged in a cooperation between Peripeti, Dramaturgi, Teatervidenskab, Statens Scenekunstskolen, Dramatikeruddannelsen og FDD (foreningen af Danske Dramaturger). It will highlight the possibilities and the problems concerning the concept of artistic development work in relation to the performing arts scene in Denmark.

Extended Opera Symposium – On Contemporary Opera and Technology
University College of Opera (OHS) & Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) invite you to the first International symposium on Contemporary Opera and Technology

When: May, 31st – June, 1st 2013
Where: KTH The Reactor hall (R1), Drottning Kristinas väg 51 & L1, Drottning Kristinas väg 30

Is Opera a mausoleum risen over bygone golden ages – constantly looking back on a forlorn high-point of canonical works composed during the 19th century?  Or can we understand opera as a creative paradigm based on the human voice and on innovation?

Extended Opera Symposium brings the subject of innovative technology in operatic practice to the surface, and invites composers, set designers, singers, stage directors, conductors, dramaturges, librettists and other professionals as well as opera lovers to take part in lectures and discussions on how opera is and can be extended with new instruments and technologies.

Keynote speakers (international):

• Arshia Cont, Director, Dep. for Research/Creativity Interfaces (IRC) IRCAM, Paris.

• Alex Nowitz, Singer and Composer, affiliated with STEIM, Amsterdam.
• Elena Jessop, PhD student, working w. prof. Tod Machover at MIT/Media Lab, Boston.
• Oscar Bianchi, Swiss/Italian opera composer, earlier affiliated with IRCAM.
• Nicola Bernardini, composer, Scuola di Musica Elettronica Conserv. C.Pollini, Padova.

and from Sweden:

• Jesper Nordin, composer and inventor of the Gestrument for iPad.

• Anna Einarsson, singer, composer and PhD student at Royal College of Music.
• Carl Unander-Scharin, composer and lyric tenor, Visiting Professor at University College of Opera and PhD student at KTH.
• Åsa Unander-Scharin, choreographer and director, PhD, Associate Professor at Luleå University of Technology.
• Anne Pajunen, musician, composer and performance artist.

In connection to the symposium, there will be performances of two new operas: Between a rock and a hard place by South-African composer Philip Miller and Sing the Body Electric! by the Swedish team composer Carl Unander-Scharin and choreographer Åsa Unander-Scharin.

There is a maximum limit of 100 participants, for registration and questions, please mail:
eo@operahogskolan.se or via tel: +46 8 546 270 34
Day 1 (May 31^st) – Starting Time 9:30 AM Lunch break 1:00–2:00 PM Ending 5:30 PM

The Choreography of Sound  with Gerhard Eckel, within DOCH’s Higher artistic seminar series.

The Choreography of Sound, is also the title of an artistic research project that Gerhard Eckel is running in Graz. In the lecture he will elaborate on the notions of choreography that has been developed in this project, which deals with the spatial in electroacoustic music composition. After the lecture there will be time for a discussion .

Time and Place: 7 May at 5 pm. in Studio G, DOCH, Brinellvägen 58.

When: April 2 – September 14
Where: KB, the Royal library, Stockholm

It is being used every day but we rarely notice it. What we see are the notes, letters, calculations, bills to be paid and things to remember.

In the artistic research project The A4 sheet, Emma Kihl has investigated different aspects of the sheet such as its format, surface and history. The result is a manuscript, a film and a collection borrowed from the German institute for standardisation will be showed in different contexts of the activities of KB. The research project is financed by VR, the Swedish research council and has been carried out at the Royal Institute of Art.

April 19 2013 Konstnärliga forskarskolan is organizing a screening/seminar with Mike Sperlinger & Lisa Tan (1hp)

Mike Sperlinger is the assistant director of LUX, the institution in London that holds the largest collection of artists’ film and video.  His criticism and articles have appeared in Afterall, DotDotDot,Frieze, Texte zur Kunst.  He’s written catalogue essays: ”Terms of Use” (curated by Lisa Rosendahl, Montehermoso), ”Keith Arnatt”(Henry Moore Institute), ”If You Say Something, See Something” (Piet Zwart student catalogue, Rotterdam, 2010), and a forthcoming ‘interactive fiction’ project with Ed Atkins.  He has co-edited FR David with artist/designer Will Holder and published by de Appel, Amsterdam.  He co-curated a Marianne Wex exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein (2012): ‘Female’ and ‘Male’ Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures“, the first major exhibition of Wex’s work in Germany since the 1970s.

Hanoi Sound Stuff, Vietnam
April 12, 20.00

Seven Stories: the female general

Seven Stories is a collaborative and experimental project in a collaboration with the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones with members Stefan Östersjö, Thanh Thuy (Malmö Academy of Music), Tra My Tran (Hanoi Conservatory), Jörgen Dahlqvist (Teatr Weimar), Marie Fahlin (freelance choreographer) and professor Richard Karpen, (composer and dean at the School of Music, University of Washington). The project will be presented in several forms (film, orchestra concerto with video, and as a video installation. The first performance, however, will be at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, Vietnam April 12 with the Six Tones and Henrik Frisk (laptop) and Tri Minh (laptop).