Between May 8 and June 23 a series of portraits of “book couples” by Lisa Tan is part of the exhibition The Revolution must be made little by little, part 1 Difference and Repetition at the Galeria Raquel Arnaud in São Paulo. Other participating artists are Carlos Zilio, Felix Gmelin, Haris Epaminonda, Héctor Zamora and Mabe Bethônico, with Jacopo Crivelli Visconti as curator.

From May 13 through August 12, 2012 the NAK, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, is hosting the exhibition I dispense, divide, assign, keep, hold by the Swedish artists Goldin+Senneby and featuring Pamela Carter (playwright), Ismail Ertürk (senior lecturer in banking and finance), Anna Heymowska (set designer), Hamadi Khemiri (actor), with a performance and opening May 12 6 pm. Through performative and theatric means, Goldin+Senneby approach the abstract, virtual and often self-referential aspects of the world of finances.  I dispense, divide, assign, keep, hold constitutes another stage in the most recent series of projects by Goldin + Senneby. The NAK will host a scene developed by the artists in collaboration with cultural economist and former banker Ismail Ertürk attempting to imagine a future numismatics of a Credit Default Swap (CDS). Numismatics being the study and collecting of coins and currency, Ertürk uses the current financial situation of Greece to trace the material remains of present day financial instruments. The Kunstverein itself becomes a stage for this imagined numismatic collection.

Thursday May 10 between 17-20 there will be an artistic seminar at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts in Gothenburg organized by the department of literary composition, with the 1970′s novel Malina by Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann as post of departure. The seminar will be in two parts, the first one led by poet and translator Marie Silkeberg. Together with writers Ida Linde, Johanne Lykke Holm, Jenny Tunedal och Ingrid Z Aanestad she will talk about the impact Ingeborg Bachmann‘s novel has had on literary work today. The second part of the seminar will be moderated by Ingrid Elam and focus on issues of translation, with translators Linda Östergaard, Madeleine Gustafsson and Beata Agrell from comparative literature as conversation partners. The seminar will take place in the Glass house at the court yard of Valand, in Swedish.

Hamlet II: exit ghost, with music by composer and PhD candidate Kent Olofsson, will be performed at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels between May 9-12, with additional performances at Göteborgs Dans & Teaterfestival May 19, where A language at war, which form another part of in the same serie of performances on language and violencealso , will be performed May 20 at the same festival.
Choreographer and PhD candidate Mette Ingvartsen will perform All the way out there at  STUK in Leuwen, Belgium May 10.
 

A 30% seminar on the doctoral work of Malin Arnell, visual and performance artist and PhD candidate at the University of Dance and Circus will take place May 8 at 19 pm at Weld in Stockholm. Her dialogue partner during the seminar is Wencke Fugelli Mühleisen, professor at the Network for gender studies at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The seminar will be held in English.

May 4 and 5 2012 there will be a thematic weekend On Research at the  Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
 On Research will explore artists’ and scientists’ strategies through lecture performances and discussions. Hito Steyerl and Rabih Mroué launch the proceedings on Friday May 4 by premiering their work entitled “Probable title: zero probability. The lecture performance weaves a poetic-fictional web of relationships between Mroué’s father, a mathematician by profession, his favorite subject, the calculation of probabilities, and his experiences in the Lebanese civil war. 

On Saturday May 5, scholars and artists address current forms of exchange processes between sciences and art. Beatrice von Bismarck, Gabriele Brandstetter, Tom Holert, Kirsten M. Langkilde, and Bernd M. Scherer will discuss the potential of an alternative understanding of research and the production of knowledge.

On the same evening, two further artistic performances address the problem of the status of knowledge as a product. In Kuhle Wampe Remix, oder Wem gehört die Stadt?, artist Ina Wudtke and philosopher Dieter Lesage examine contemporary gentrification debates in the context of academic studies. Dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy stages his life story in a lecture performance: in Product of Circumstances (1999), he analyzes how he went from being a doctor of molecular biology to a performance artist.

The 2012 issue of the Nordic Textile Journal, issued once a year by the Centre for Textile Research at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, will focus on Sustainability and Innovation in the Fashion Field.  The Nordic Textile Journal brings together interesting results of research in design, textile- and design management, technology and craft.  Manuscript deadline is  31 May 2012.

May 17 2012 there will be a Konstnärliga forskarskolan workshop/course (1 hp) called Gender in opera performance in Stockholm. The course is based on a full day physical and intellectual workshop in which the participants will be working with a range of opera scenes. Departing from the physical choices made by the participants there will be a discussion on the role of tradition and convention (like understanding of genre or the psychology of a charachter), individual habits and the analysis of the performative situation: the imagined intention and goal of the character. Workshop leader Kent Sjöström concluded his PhD thesis in Theatre, Skådespelaren i handling – strategier för tanke och kropp (The actor in action -  strategies for though and body) in 2007 and has since then been teaching and researching at the Malmö Theatre Academy , where he has been part of the development of a series of new courses in ”The theory and practice of Theatre”. He also teaches regularly at the master program  at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. For more information and registration, please contact emma@konstnarligaforskarskolan.se.

Jonas Forssell will have a 33 % seminar Thursday April 26 between 13-15 pm at the University College of Opera in Stockholm. Jonas will talk about his work so far called  Transfiguarations of the text, followed by critical comments by Thomas Shuback and a joint discussion. An important part of the work is the composing of the vocal piece Skuggorna och ljusen, with a text by Magnus Florin that was performed April 22 during the composer’s weekend  at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

Wednesday April 24 Elke Marhöfer will have her 25% between 13- 17.30 pm.  The afternoon starts 13- 14 pm with a screening of the film Ani, Nan DooKKeobiga Anigo Geobuk-ee Yo! (No, I am not a toad, I am a turtle!) at Bio Roy on Kungsportsavenyn 45  in Gothenburg (free entrance!). After the screening there will be a discussion on Elke’s work at v.arc (Research Center, Valand), with Corinne Diserens between 14:15 – 15:30 as external commentator, followed by a half hour discussion with all the seminar participants. After a 30 min break all this will be followed by a more informal after-seminar discussion between 16.30 and 17.30 pm. Elke’s material could be found in GUL: “Etappseminarier för doktorander”
. If you have no access to GUL, please contact elke at  contact(at)whateverbeing.de 
. The seminar will be held in English.