Play, performance, participation
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Mobilized to Immersion Festival in Turku
I’ll go to Finland, to show Mobilized at a larp festival in August. The event is put together by Kaisa Kangas (who edited the Liminal Encounters anthology), Essi Santala and Tonja Goldblatt. Immersion is an international chamber larp festival in Turku, Finland. We invite you all, both newcomers and experienced larpers to come play with…
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Leaving BTH
This spring marks the end of an era for me as a freelance teacher at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). I’ve been fortunate to teach a wide range of courses at the Department of Technology and Aesthetics in Karlshamn, which is now gradually shutting down. Over the years, I have worked across four different bachelor’s…
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Love’s Seven Name – A Virtual Pilgrimage
OUT NOW, until Valentine’s day! Love’s Seven Names – A Virtual Pilgrimage for you and your phone, in the spirit of Hadewijch. By Áron Birtalan and Gabriel Widing Explore here:https://nyxxx.se/7names/Open only between Feb. 8-14 ⛓️ ✨ 🪨 🔥 🌱 ⛲ 🌀 We’re all here because we have problems with love. Her gifts are bondage that you cannot…
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Program is out for Gatherings to Disappear
With many months spent amassing matter, we are thrilled to trumpet the birth and vanishment of Gatherings to Disappear – a 3-day symposium for performative practices, lived spirituality and unruly thought. The line-up includes: (A-Z) Catalina Insignares ⚬ EHS Center for Theology, Ecology and Culture ⚬ Francis Patrick Brady ⚬ FutureBrownSpace ⚬ Julian of Norwich…
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Announcing Gatherings to Disappear 28-30 November
I’m excited to announce Gatherings to Disappear that I organize with Áron Birtalan. It´s a 3-day symposium for performative practices, lived spirituality and unruly thought. Bringing together voices from choreography, performance, religion and mutant academia we are looking forward to times of swarming, crumbling, melting, choiring, blooming anew. 28-30 November, 2024 at𓀤 Stockholm University of…
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Seed funding to the Control Game
Gabriel Widing and Nea Landin have through Nyxxx received funding from Kulturbryggan, to develop a prototype for our next piece titled The Control Game. During the process we will further explore the idea of separating the audience into two, Players and Avatars. The Players will be able to control the Avatars live by making choices…
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Mobilized at SITE/Specific Festival 2024
SITE/Specific Festival is a festival in an open house format that gives you the chance to meet artists connected to SITE and take part in their latest works. During three evenings in June, we invite you to indoor and outdoor performances, talks and workshops. The festival has free entry! Mobilized – An essay pretending to…
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Against design published in the larp anthology Liminal Encounters
The annual Nordic live action role-play conference Knutpunkt/Solmukohta usually comes with an anthology on different aspects of larp. This year’s title was LIMINAL ENCOUNTERS: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp and it was edited by Kaisa Kangas and her team. There are many good contributions to this year’s book. I can specifically recommend “The…
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On tour in Finland
I’ve been on a ten day tour in Finland with Nyxxx and the show Hör så tyst det är, directed by me and Ebba Petrén. The tour was organized by Assitej Finland through the Bravo!-festival and I’m happy we have been able to show the work in Swedish as well as Finnish. This is the…
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Grant received from The Church of Sweden
We (Gabriel Widing & Áron Birtalan) are excited to announce that our project 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆’𝒔 𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 is one of the awardees for The Church of Sweden’s cultural prize in 2023. The award consists of a grant that will help us in the initial stage of the project, studying, rehearsing, wayward dreaming. ⛓️ ✨ 🪨 🔥…
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In conversation with Lundahl & Seitl at IAC
Inter Arts Center “a platform for artistic research and experimentation” are very into games and play these days. Me and Nea Landin performed Mobilized there at Immersive days #3: Agents in Play. In the aftermaths i had the pleasure of giving a short improvised talk and enter a dialogue with Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl.…
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The Abyss Between Our Hands – with Áron Birtalan
On October 20th we will host a seminar and a reading night, exploring technologies of intimacy in artistic practice and mystical theology. Artistic practice and mysticism have both been ways where the unknowable and the unreliable can be touched, felt, communed with. They denote a space where the lines between affective, sensual and intellectual collapse,…