16/09 – 03/10
Vitlycke – CPA
Konsthallen Lokstallet
HERE:2021. International Performing Arts Festival, as a rhizome, assembles works as a nomadic playlist of events. An array of attractions that can excite, evoke empathy, be poetic and unusual and yet twist expectations, co-opting the spectators as imaginative authors. It’s like charting a cartography of poetic visions through performances that can generate emotions, sensitively empowering aesthetics; projects that avoid predetermined outcomes and escape strict definitions of genre.
Collaboration between artists is one of the central cores of the programme. It includes dance performances, conversations, experimental films and silent movie projections with live concerts of well known composers and musicians. Alongside the festival, the exciting project by visual artist Luciano Goizueta (CR) will define hybrid territories, archiving events and constantly collecting metadata.
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Week 1 / 13—19 September
Photo: Andre Albrecht
16/09
SWISS DANCE AWARD 2017 / SWEDISH PREMIERE
INAUDIBLE
ZOO/Thomas Hauert (CH/BE)
In Inaudible, a group piece for six dancers, Thomas Hauert focuses on the notion of ‘interpretation’ in symbiotic relation with the musical composition. The richness of Gershwin’s Concerto in F, and the dazzling depth of Mauro Lanza’s music, convey a contagious energy that invades the bodies.
18/09
LIVE MUSIC PREMIERE
UNDER THE NOTHING NIGHT
Wee/Gry Kipperberg/Francesco Scavetta (NO)/Laida Lertxundi (ES)/Sheriffs of Nothingness (NO)
Under the nothing night is a solo work that deals with identity and presence. The relationship between body and nature is an underlying theme. It relates to nature by drawing parallels between physical landscapes and a phenomenological body, as sites of experience and recollection.
Photo: Francesco Scavetta
Words, Planets, Laida Lertxundi
19/09
Experimental films
LANDSCAPE PLUS
Laida Lertxundi (ES)
Laida Lertxundi’s films are captivating and enigmatic. Nothing is shown directly, but is rather evoked as an unusual experience. Her films find their inspiration in actions and places of her own life, while offering a mysterious sense of loneliness and longing.
19/09
Silent movie with live music
EDISON STUDIO (IT)
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Directed by: Sergej Michajlovič Ėjzenštejn
More than 90 years after its first screening, the Edison Studio collective of composers reinterprets the images of the Battleship Potëmkin through a soundtrack in which music, voices, ambient sounds reveal the atmosphere, the senses and the secret rhythms of the masterpiece by Ejzenštejn.
Week 2 / 20—26 September
Photo: Gunilla Heilborn
23/09
WHY I WEAR THIS SHIRT
Gunilla Heilborn (SE)
Kim Hiorthøy (NO)
Why I Wear This Shirt is a solo performance somewhere between comedy, poetry and contemporary dance. At times desperately sad, at others desperately funny, it stretches from the banal and prosaic, to the metaphysical, slow-cooking the deeper questions about who we are and how we live through a seemingly simple and engaging stage work.
24/09
Silent movie with live music / PREMIERE
NINA DE HENEY
LISA ULLÉN (SE)
THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN
Directed by: Germain Dulac
Pianist Lisa Ullén and double bass player Nina de Heney have been playing as a duo since 2007, and rapidly gained recognition as one the most thrilling new groups on the improvisation scene in Sweden. Their music will convey and ignite what is arguably considered the first surrealist film ever made.
Photo: Kari Jantzen
Photo: Camilla Rehnstrand
24/09
Silent movie with live music / PREMIERE
MATTI BYE (SE) LAU NAU (FI)
LIMITE
Directed by: Mario Peixoto (BR)
An astonishing film creation, Limite, by the director Mário Peixoto, is an avant-garde silent masterpiece of independent Latin American filmmaking. An unique occasion to watch the captivating images, accompanied by the improvised, and composed, music of Matti Bye & Lau Nau. The music becomes entwined to the visual expression, building an emotional full sound-image experience that is every time unique: a sensitive interaction only for this moment.
Photo: Gianluca Di Ioia
26/09
Performance / UBU PRIZE 2002, BEST PERFORMANCE
OTTO
Kinkaleri (IT)
OTTO after almost 20 years, keeps vibrating. It’s not re-staged like a repertoire resisting to time: it still questions our understanding of the scenic act with it's hoarding of materials, assembled as a distilled film editing. It’s really beautiful and poetic, as well as surprising and sad.
Week 3 / 27 September—3 October
28/09
Performance / PREMIERE
LUCKY NUMBERS
Stina Nyberg / Riksteatern (SE)
Stina Nyberg’s new creation for Riksteatern will premiere at HERE:2021. A rhythmic and humorous duet of chopped-up dance styles, and swift changes, between choreography and textile art, on the pumping rhythm of Berlin-based composer rRoxymore, known for his house music.
Photo: Shaon Chakraborty
01/10
Performance
HORSE,
THE SOLOS
Cullberg (SE)
Deborah Hay (USA)
Deborah Hays new work for Cullberg is a meditation on survival or even an exercise in survival, inspired by all that is unseen in a single blade of grass. The piece is choreographed in a manner that relies on an intuitive understanding of risk and efficiency.
02/10
Performance. BESSIE DANCE AWARDS
THE MATCH
Cullberg (SE)
Deborah Hay (USA)
The Match is Deborah Hay first work as an associated choreographer at Cullberg. Re-staged in 2019, the work is an iconic masterpiece described as “a fascinating, vibrant battle of wits”. It contains meditation like exercises that invisibly bind the dancers to the material by establishing a mental, emotional, and bodily rigor that is visible in the performance. The work is built on the nature of experience, attention and perception.
Photo: Nina Andersson
Photo: Solomon Hugues
02/10
Konsthallen Lokstallet. Performance / Conversation
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
Jo Fong / Sonia Hughes (UK)
Life is hectic, and real human connection feels increasingly rare. Artists Sonia Hughes and Jo Fong champion the power of slowing down and having real conversations in their live art performance, Neither Here Nor There. Audiences have described it as “inspiring and heartfelt”, “thought provoking, cathartic and quite lovely”. Join Sonia and Jo for a short walk, followed by conversations designed to make “a leap of faith” (CCQ Magazine), and surrender to this intimate and refreshing look into the power of communication.
Photo: Solomon Hugues
03/10
Vitlycke-CPA. Performance / Conversation
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
Jo Fong / Sonia Hughes (UK)
Life is hectic, and real human connection feels increasingly rare. Artists Sonia Hughes and Jo Fong champion the power of slowing down and having real conversations in their live art performance, Neither Here Nor There. Audiences have described it as “inspiring and heartfelt”, “thought provoking, cathartic and quite lovely”.
Join Sonia and Jo for a short walk, followed by conversations designed to make “a leap of faith” (CCQ Magazine), and surrender to this intimate and refreshing look into the power of communication.
03/10
Silent movie with live music / PREMIERE
ZAWA ZAWA
Lisa Nordstrom (SE)
Mika Takehara (SE/JP)
Silent films by Maya Deren
ZAWA ZAWA move seamlessly between composition and improvisation in an organic exploration of acoustic and electronic sonic landscapes.
American avant-garde legend and pioneering female filmmaker, Maya Deren has been fascinating generations of movie directors for her kinetic and graphic experiments.
Photo: MalinJohansson
Week 4 / 04—10 October
HERE:2021 Digital Festival
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Week 5 / 18—24 October
The American Home – Luciano Goizueta
23—24/10
Visual art exhibition / VERNISSAGE / GIBCA Extended
Exhibition runs from 19—24.10.2021
ECHO CHAMBER
Luciano Goizueta (CR)
Luciano’s love for science, self-awareness and art combines in a variety of works that can be colourful texturised acrylic, inspired by scientific phenomena, or decontextualised objects that explores the idea of abandonment and decaying of cities; miniature environments in a box, or a suitcase, and detailed collages covering large surfaces. He observes, documents and archives events around him, constantly collecting metadata. For him “drawing is observing in details”, while re-enacting memories before they are lost.
Week 6 / 25—31 October
29—30/10
Exhibiton / Guided art exhibition / GIBCA Extended
ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSES
Luciano Goizueta (CR)
Luciano’s love for science, self-awareness and art combines in a variety of works that can be colourful texturised acrylic, inspired by scientific phenomena, or decontextualised objects that explores the idea of abandonment and decaying of cities; miniature environments in a box, or a suitcase, and detailed collages covering large surfaces. He observes, documents and archives events around him, constantly collecting metadata. For him “drawing is observing in details”, while re-enacting memories before they are lost.
Ausencia XXIII – Luciano Goizueta