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  • Prototyping for movement with mobile phones

    Prototyping for movement with mobile phones

    I’ve been spending a week with dancer and artist Nea Landin at a residency initiated by Danscentrum in a new studio in Stockholm called Söderkupolen. We met in a coding course at Konstfack and have similar interests in instruction based performances. In the residency we started working with real-time multi-user web technologies. Instructions are distributed…

  • Co-hosting The Unquiet Veil

    Co-hosting The Unquiet Veil

    This week I’ve been working with Áron Birtalan in a part of their PhD project Your Bones Hold the Shape of What’s to Come. The piece is titled The Unquiet Veil – A Living Person’s Guide to Death Magick in Four Unfinished Songs. As iwth many participatory proposals it’s somewhere between a workshop and a…

  • Coded poetry at Twisted shout #1, Fylkingen

    Coded poetry at Twisted shout #1, Fylkingen

    I will show my 9-page hell poem the void is positively charged at Twisted shout text-sound-festival at Fylkingen. The list of live acts is juicy: * Gå på stället vocal duo* Casey Moir vocal* Beatboxer Mathias Yilbar* WOL performance duo* Performance/talk by Ilmar Laaban expert Jan Malin from Tallin* Pyspunka – performance piece by Teddy…

  • Ekstasis in progress

    Ekstasis in progress

    Me, Ebba and Elize from Nyxxx is working with Leo from Pusselbit games to produce a 4-player synchronized app scenario under the title Ekstasis. It is written for four friends and can be played/performed at home with standard mobile phones and head phones. This time we decided to do the voice work ourselves so we…

  • Artes Participativas

    Artes Participativas

    A Portuguese/Brazilian translation of Deltagarkultur has dropped in the shape of Artes Participativas. Thank you Tadeu Rodrigues Iuama for translating it and to Luiz Falcão for a proper re-enactment of the original shape and form. It is published by NpLarp and Editora Provocare. The book was written 2008 by Kristoffer Haggren, Elge Larsson and Andrea…

  • the void is positively charged

    the void is positively charged

    Developing my interest in programming, I created these Python coded 666-line hell poems under the title “The void is positively charged”. The text is distributed over the page with Processing-code. It’s a series of I-IX where every print has its own randomly generated version of the text.

  • Twelve talking dolls: The Subjects

    Twelve talking dolls: The Subjects

    You take care of the dolls. The dolls will take care of you. Meet the twelve talking dolls. They scream, cry and comfort, threaten and pray, seduce and order, invoke and plead, explain, hypnotize, confess and terrorize. As an audience member you can pick the dolls up and hold them, take care of them and…

  • Tactical Meditations in Vienna

    Tactical Meditations in Vienna

    I will go to the Calle Libre festival in Vienna to present Nyxxx’ Tactical Meditations August 9-12th. More info.

  • Another body is possible / There is no body B.

    Another body is possible / There is no body B.

    Matilda Tjäder, curator at Minibar in Stockholm, invited the artist Susan Ploetz, Patricia Reed and me to talk in relation to Susan’s somatic larp The Guild. Here is my take. I decided to talk under the title “Another body is possible / There is no body B.” This title paraphrases two slogans from the globalisation…

  • Talk on bodies, politics & nordic larp at Minibar, Stockholm

    Talk on bodies, politics & nordic larp at Minibar, Stockholm

    PROTOCOLS #2 & #3 extra_sensory A THREEFOLD PUBLIC LECTURE ❢❢ SUNDAY APRIL 30, 2017 2–5pm ❢❢ ‶Maybe perceiving would be a better word,” he said. “There’s much more involved than sight. It knows everything that can be learned about you from your genes. And by now, it knows your medical history and a great deal…

  • Notes on the black box scenario Inside myself, outside myself

    Notes on the black box scenario Inside myself, outside myself

    This is a short talk on a black box larp that I gave at Larpwriter Summer School in Lithuania. The text is more precise than the video… I will present a scenario played at the festival Black Box Copenhagen in 2014. The project was initiated by Nina Runa Essendrop and Marie Holm-Andersen under the poetic…

  • Tactical Meditations, new Nyxxx piece on tour

    Tactical Meditations, new Nyxxx piece on tour

    My collective Nyxxx has created a new piece which is currently on tour. The 9 shows in Stockholm were sold-out. And it was exciting to meat the young and engaged audience. The work is more open and improvisatory than our previous avatar shows and we guide the audience through a series of exercises, meditating on…