STAMSUND 2012- A SCRIPT FOR A FESTIVAL 29.05- 02.06

STAMSUND 2012- A script for a festival

tromsø 28 april

tromsø 28 april

II.we- a questionary                                                                                                                                                                 someone asked us what´s the role of the audience today?
at first we felt a bit bored by this at one hand out-of-fashion question on the other hand we guess it´s one of the most basic topic in the field of arts, the naïve question would not leave us at ease, therefore we likewise asked ourself naively

is there a new kind of audience?
is there a new kind of spectator?
is this a result of the social changes that occurred in the recent collective imagination?
have new ways of communicating and relating transformed audiences for good?
is it possible to think today of a merely receptive spectator?
for the spectator to emancipate herself is it necessary for her to adopt an active role?
in all these processes have artistic practices had any influence?
is the activation of a counter public possible?
do the artists and the spectator increasingly resemble one another?

hmm…. this does not feel right…something is missing….we think we need an update…puh.. would you help us out by adding a questions or two on the list…. that would save our day…

thanks !
we

we would also like to thank

don kulick, era krasniqi, tim etchells, dora budor, dmitry paranyushkin, merideth hillbrand, james webb, emma hagdahl, heiner müller and magnus thorén, leif alexis, hans rosenström, nina kurtela.

tromsø 28 april

we would like to thank anders ribu

TROMSØ 28. april- 6.mai Seminar: The Public?

Seminar: Publikums rolle

28. april 2012
10:00 til 13:00

På Kunstakademiet.

Publikums rolle er i forandring og hver forestilling må revurdere hvilke rolle publikum har. På hvilke måte har publikum makt og hva forventes av de? Og hvorfor vil kunstnerne utsette publikum for dette?

Pilvi Porkola fra Finland snakker om å utdanne publikum, Joshua Sofaer presenterer The Many Headed Monster, Rickard Borgström snakker ut ifra kuratorens syn på publikum og Trine Blixrud viser det unike med barn som publikum. I løpet av seminaret blir det plass for dialog og seminardeltagerne får muligheten til å skape musikk av sin egen hjernefrekvens i Brainwave Music Therapy Room.

http://vaarscenefest.blogspot.de/2012/04/seminar-publikums-rolle.html

Seminaret foregår på engelsk.
Påmelding til radarttromso@gmail.com

Deltakelse på seminaret er gratis.

STAMSUND 2012, Final Draw 2/5

FINAL PROGRAM OF STAMSUND INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2012 PART I

The technical explanation of the draw procedure                                                                                            

Twenty shows will participate in the final program of Stamsund International Theatre Festival 2012. The host institutions are Figurteatret i Nordland (FIN) and Stamsund International Theatre (SIT). The shows have qualified based on the host institutions dance and theatre rankings, they have been classified based on their rankings which determines their allocation in pools 1-5.

Pool 1 will contain FIN productions and collborators, Pool 2 contains SIT guest performances, Pool 3 represent the cooperation between FIN & SIT (FS), Pool 4 contains North Norwegian Productions (NNP) and finally Pool 5 presents SIT Platform for artistic development (SP).

All the qualified shows from Pools 1 to 5 will be allocated in one single Festival Pool. The first show drawn from the Festival Pool will be placed in group A. Next show will drawn and placed in group B. The procedure is followed and is completed when all the shows been drawn from the Festival Pool and placed in each group of 5 shows. How the shows are positioned in the groups are determined by the dates and times when they play during the final program of STAMSUND INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2012.

Rickard Borgström, Curator SIT 2012

STAMSUND 2012, Final Draw 1/5

Coming up IETM pre meeting at INKONST

Welcome to the IETM pre-meeting in Malmö!

 

March 27′th 2012, 14.00 – 21.30

 

The meeting will start off at Inkonst, Bergsgatan 29, Malmo.

During the afternoon/evening in Malmö we will introduce you to the local organizations hosting the meeting: Inkonst, Danscentrum Syd, Teatercentrum, Dansstationen, Skånes Dansteater and Malmö Stadsteater.

 

The topic of the talking session is Nordic – European collaborations with a take of from the point of view of curating/programming. 

Moderator: Åsa Richardsdottir. Panel: Rickard Borgström (Inkonst, Stamsund Internationella Teater Festival), Lars Eidevall (Dansstationen) & Ricarda Ciontos (Nordwind Festival)

 

INKONST Vårsäsong 2012

Institutionell Melankoli I

1.

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness

2.

På L’Espadon mötte jag Sergei för en sen lunch. Hans storhetstid som tvärkonstnärlig kurator vid Cartierstiftelsen hade gett honom jobbet som ansvarig för scenkonsten vid en av Europas ledande konstinstitutioner. Han hade magrat sedan sist.

Sergei drog in doften av en torr Sancerre Les Baronnes innan han smuttade på den. Han nickade lätt till kyparen som fyllde vinglasen. Vår ravioli med kronärtskocka och ruccola, med gratinerade musslor serverades. Sergei pratade om hur de administrativa kostnaderna sköt i taket och att produktionsanslagen minskade drastiskt på teatern. Han orkade inte driva igenom de förändringar i organisation som skulle gynna ett mer experimentellt programformat. Personalen skulle inte klara ett sådant initiativ. Alla var redan överbelastade med pappersarbete. Själv besökte han regelbundet sin läkare för att hantera stressen på jobbet. Han suckade.

Sorlet tycktes mindre ljudligt än det brukade vid lunch, om än restaurangen var fullsatt. Sergei fortsatte. Kollegorna, publiken och styrelsen var nöjda med blandningen av etablerade nationella och internationella gästspel, som speglade ett slags globalt formspråk, så varför förändra nåt? Teatern spelade för utsålda hus. Lokalpolitikern och tillika styrelsemedlemmen vid teatern prisade Sergies populära repertoar. Politikern menade att det var fantastiskt att stadsborna ägnade sin fritid åt underhållning på teatern.

Ytterligare en flaska vin till marulksfilé med svarta oliver, zucchini och inlagd citron. Sergei ursäktade sig för att besöka toaletten. Han var strax tillbaka. Blicken var glansig och leendet ansträngt mot det fårade ansiktet. Nyligen hade teatern fått direkta instruktioner från kulturministeriet att omdisponera resurser för att inkludera grupper som sällan besökte institutionen. Teaterns pedagogiska satsning på förortsskolorna hade gett gensvar och de unga strömmade till teatern. Vi tände varsin cigarett, och Sergei klunkade snabbt i sig mer vin. Vår varmrätt följdes av en Tartin liknande efterrätt med stekta äpplen och karamelliserad glass. Tidigare hyrde Sergei en lägenhet, nu hade han ett banklån och hade köpt en centralt belägen lya. Trots amorteringarna och räntorna var höga så var det en bra investering, sa han och svepte den sista slurken. Notan kom in, Sergei såg hastigt på den och betalade. Vi reste oss för att ta oss vidare till Rue de la Roquette.

Av Rickard Borgström, kurator för scenkonstprogrammet vid INKONST 2012, Berlin 2012

Exhibition at Gallery Sinne Helsinki Finland opening 2 Nov 2012

within the frame of Shapeshifter.

“The third and the last part of the project is Title (in process…), a process-like exhibition, with a group of international artists, curated by Rickard Borgström (2 Nov – 25 Nov 2012).”

More information soon.

http://sinne.webbhuset.fi/eng/home/#article-23253-8994-shapeshift

DANCER STAY WIF ME !

Sketch for a minor proposition of coloring the sky at dusk, Watercolors & colored pencils on found digital print on paper, Berlin 2011

I DON´T BELIEVE IN THE CONDITIONS THAT PRODUCED A SITUATION THAT DEMANDED A SONG LIKE THAT- a series of choreographical works at Boddinstraße 48

SYMPOSIUM: You’ve got my interest 18-19 Nov TQW

                                             SYMPOSIUM:You’ve got my interest
Symposium on the economics of producing, between extravagance and calculation

 

Against the background of deep changes in habitats and the ecological, economic and intercultural preconditions of our action, precisely because of the specific involvement and participation of contemporary dance and performance art in these processes, the related practice of production is up for discussion in a special way.

In the framework of the FEEDBACK programme focus – in a two-day and international symposium in introductory lectures, dialogues and round tables – the producers, artists and theoreticians dedicate themselves to various aspects that mark the ‘Inter-Esse’, the being together, the sharing and allocating of interests and roles in the context of the production and conveying of artistic works.
What are the ‘hard facts’ and what are the ideal values of the houses such as the Tanzquartier Wien that produce the basis of our artistic, arts-policy and institutional decisions? What roles do concepts of trust, extravagance and squandering oneself play in exchange and cooperation? How does the incalculable and the superfluous in artistic production unsettle the calculated and the strategic in order to open up new territories for art and its audience?
Starting from various questions and in dialogue with the practice of all those involved, the event invites people to an exchange of views on the present-day economics of producing.

The guests included representatives of the most famous festivals and institutions, such as:  Anita Mathieu (Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales, Paris), Serge Laurent (Centre Pompidou, Paris), John Ashford (Aerowaves, London), Annemie Vanackere (Productiehuis Rotterdam, from 1 Dec. Director of the HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin), Karlien Meganck (DeSingel, Antwerp), Sabine Gehm (Internationaler Tanzkongress Bremen 2013), Dieter Jaenicke (Europäisches Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden), Bush Hartshorn (Dansescenen, Copenhagen), Silvia Fanti (XING, Bologna), Rickard Borgström (Inkonst, Malmö) and Sally de Kunst (Belluard Bollwerk Festival, Fribourg), but also directors from Austria such as Veronica Kaup-Hasler (Steirischer Herbst, Graz) and Karl Regensburger (Impulstanz, Wien).

http://www.tqw.at/en/events/symposium-youve-got-my-interest-0?date=2011-11-19_11-00&mini=calendar%2F2011-11

http://www.tqw.at/en/content/feedback-symposium-youve-got-my-interest

2012 STAMSUND INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 28.05-02.06

The dates for the forthcoming STAMSUND INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL (SIT) is between 28th of May and 2nd of June.

I contribute with seminar-, exhibition-, film-, performance program. Please follow the curatorial development here or at

www.stamsund-internasjonale.no

1) Dogs don’t make mistakes.

2) That the dog should die was after the beautiful, faithful nature of dogs.

3) When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.

2012 Curating INKONST, Malmö, Sweden

From aug 2011 i started to work at INKONST, Malmö, Sweden. Im curating the performing arts program for 2012. Keep yourself updated at:

INKONST

update WE TRY TO PLAN IT SO PERFECTLY congress 8-10 June Oslo

Happy to announce that

Zygmunt Bauman

Franco Bifo Berardi

Grezgorz Kowalski

Don Kulick

Maria Lind

will present new lectures at the congress.

Program will be released Friday 8th of April

more information at www.norskulturrad.no

Don´t cut the artery!

Article around the financing situation for the independent performing arts field in Norway. Published in Morgenbladet 18 march.

Drontheim Workkshop #2, 21-25 March at Teaterhuset Avant Garden

the workshop is postponed. Back with new dates soon.

For more information visit

EXPANDING MATTERS by Brynjar Bandlien (NO)

EXPANDING MATTERS
-Presentation of The Self and Developing Performance Tools
by Brynjar Bandlein (NO)

Workshop #1 “The Social Body”
At Dansens Hus, Oslo 4-8th Feb
www.expandingmatter11.wordpress.com

click here for details

Launching EXPANDING MATTER 2011 Workshop Series

PERFORM- workshop platform and BaNd: network expanded recives 140.000 EURO

PERFORM- workshop platform and BaNd: network expanded

recives 140.000 EURO

from KKN Nordic Baltic Mobility Program;  Long-term network funding

The workshop platform kicks off in Tallin June 2011 and continues to Trondheim January 2012. Whereby we will get into the nitty-gritty of the immaterial labor paradigm. More information will come soon!

BaNd is implementing a series of transdisciplinary ateliers for young performing artists, thus, facilitating long lasting professional networking aimed at raise of the overall level of contemporary theatre and innovative artistic collaborations within the region. Finland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

das Theater ist Steinzeit

Stamsund International Theatre Festival

24-28 May 2011

Upcoming  Dance- & Theatre- and Seminar- Program during the Stamsund International Theatre Festival at the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway. I

“das Theater ist Steinzeit”

www.stamsund-internasjonale.no

Full program for BASTARD- Theatre Festival at

www.avantgarden.no/index.php?parent=0&groupid=497

norwegian version, english is coming up.

News: PERFORM- workshop platform joins BaNd network

BaNd network gets into action
BaNd network is a Baltic/Nordic contemporary performing arts platform for exchange, action and reflection beyond one’s own genre and artistic perspectives.
The platform will initiate and foster long-term artistic collaborations whilst raising artistic responsibility among young generation performing arts and interdisciplinary practitioners from the Baltic and Nordic countries, and beyond. The initiative for this network came from 8 performing art organizations aiming to establish a strong network capable of implementing a series of multidisciplinary workshops for young professionals. Following the outcome, the network will aim at generating, co-producing and touring new work by interdisciplinary artistic teams from Baltic/Nordic region.Institutions involved: New Theatre Institute of Latvia / Riga Baltic Circle / Q-teatteri / Helsinki Teatteri Metamorfoosi / Helsinki PERFORM – Workshop Platform /Trondheim Theatre and Cinema Information and Education centre / Vilnius Von Krahl Theatre / Tallinn Teaterhuset Avant Garden / Trondheim Inkonst / Malmö The network is supported by Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture