Play, performance, participation
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Workshop at Intercult Academy: Digital on Stage
I will host a workshop with Nea Landin the August 29:th in Stockholm, where we try to share some experiences from making Mobilized and Inferno Speeddate. It’s free and it will happen during the Stoff (fringe festival) week. The Mobile as Aesthetic Interface Meet Nea Landin and Gabriel Widing, who create participatory performance art with…
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Ett brev “Till publiken”
På en viktigt plats i staden har en scenkonstnär skrivit ett brev till dig. Brevskrivaren läser själv upp sitt brev för dig när du kommer dit. När du lyssnat färdigt upptäcker du ett brev till, och ett till och ett till. Över sextio skådespelare, dansare, regissörer, koreografer, dramatiker och annat scenfolk andra lotsar dig till…
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Om co-work som icke-samarbete i Brand
Jag har skrivit en kort krönika till Brand #2 2025 om hur co-working förändrar både arbete och stad. Text nedan – Glad 1 maj! Icke-platsernas öken Om ni undrar hur det står till med kreativiteten och innovationskapaciteten i det senkapitalistiska samhället – ta en titt på den myriad av “co-working spaces” som dykt upp i…
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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…