After gathering a number of leading sound art and experimental music residencies in December at IAC, the ideas of forming a new network was discussed and set in motion. Before the summer we received network funding from Nordic Culture Point and had our first network meeting in Oslo. The founding members of the network are NOTAM in Oslo, EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm, VICC (Visby International Centre for Composers) at Gotland, Danish Composer’s Society in Denmark and Inkonst and IAC in Malmö. One of the main aims in the beginning is exchange of technical staff and competences. More as the network start to take form with the first educational courses and institutional visits in Stockholm and Oslo during the fall.

Out of 21 Open Call applications in May we have approved 9 and look forward to welcome the following artist during the fall: Yujin Jung, Simon Kristensen, Johanne Marie Aagaard Laache, Fabio Monni, Essi Kausalainen, Erik Peters, Emilie Gregersen, Cecilia Elinor Bengtsson and last but not least a new contemporary art podcast by Matthew Rana & Christine Antaya.

For the Make Sound Residency in April we received 32 applications and approved two of them. Welcome: KIRSTINE LINDEMANN / JALEH NEGARI & FELIA GRAM-HANSSEN

We encourage professional artists, researchers, curators and institutions within all art forms and nationalities to apply!

Realizing a project at IAC gives you the possibility to be part of a unique interdisciplinary environment and network of artists, researchers, musicians, producers, composers, directors, actors, writers and curators.

For more information about the application criteria visit our homepage: www.iac.lu.se/proposals/

Deadlines for our Open Call are: February 1st – May 1st – September 1st – November 1st

For our Open Call in February many interesting and relevant projects came in. We ended up finally approving eight of them and therefore welcome:

Caitlin Dear / Kalle Brolin / Lena Bergendal / Nicklas Lundberg / Malthe Møhr / Maria Naidu / Faronia Wennborg / Martina Tomner

Ess Beck / Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen, Marie-Louise Andersson / Yann Coppier / J&K (Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard) / Kate NV, Sasha Kulak / Group A / Waclaw Zimpel / Jakob Riis / Henrik Jørgensen / Waileth & Bardon / Konrad Behr / Myriam Bleau & Felix Gourd / Jørgen Teller / Henrik Frisk / Röstmolnet (Felicia Konrad, Miguel Cortes, Anna Fält, Sara Wilén, Bruno Faria, Brita Björs) / Karkhana residency (Michael Zerang, Sam Shalabi, Mazen Kerbaj, Maurice Louca, Sharif Sehnaoui, Umut Çağlar, Tony Elieh, Sarah El Miniawy) / Sidén Hedman duo (Eva Sidén & Jens Hedman) / Gry Tingskog / Emma Strandsäter / Tuuli Vahtola / Oda Brekke / Maia Means / Helena Fernandez-Cavada / Sten-Olof Hellström, Ann Rosén / Lise Kroner / Brita Björs / Malene Begtrup & 11th House Collective / Tim Bishop / Annelie Nilsson / Johan Lundin / David Granström / Helene Hedsund / Hertzbreakerz (Alessandro Perini, Jonatan Sersam, Francesco del Nero) / Maxime Hourani, Ebba Petrén / Mariella Ottosson / Akiko Diegel / Kirstine Lindemann / Lasse Munk / Julie Poitras Santos / Oona Libens / Jacob Remin / Sergey Filatov / Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard / Christian Rønn / Diethild Meier / Sara Pons / Mike Sheridan / Jakob Riis / Sanna Blennow / Rebecka Holmström / Zoe Efstathiou / Egil Kalman / Viktor Landström / Madeleine Jonsson Gille / Anna Jakobsson / Hanna Junti / Tim Shaw, Jacek Smolicki / Alessandro Perini / Anne Elisabeth Eckersberg / Francis Patrick Brady / John B McKenna / Zwoisy Mears-Clarke / Varvara & Mar / Nordic Affect (Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Antina Hugosson, Ian Wilson, Liam Byrne, Guðrún Óskarsdóttir) / Martin Dalin / Vytautas Michelkevicius / Stefan Klaverdal / Susan Kozel / Daniel Stighäll m.fl. / Daniel Karlsson / Fabio Monni / Julia Giertz / Alma Söderberg / Hendrik Willekens / Lisa Nyberg / Ana Rebordão / Maria Normann / Helena Olsson / Hans Carlsson / Karolina Erlingsson / Saga Gärde / Philippe Blanchard & Khamlane Halsacke / Jonna Hägg / Michael Johansson

For our Open Call in November many interesting projects came in. We ended up approving two of them and are pleased to welcome DIANA CHESTER and RANI NAIR.

The following projects have been approved the last round of applications:

Ars Nova Ensemble & Hertzbreakerzs / Instabili Vaganti / Jonna Hägg / Francis Patrick Brady / Cecilia Nordlund & Fullmånen från Helvetet / Alberto Franceschini

Deadlines for our Open Call are: February 1st – May 1st – September 1st – November 1st

The upcoming deadlines are:

Make Sound Residency: 1 October 2018

Open Call: 1 November 2018

In our last Open Call in May we’ve received 18 applications. 10 were approved. 12 female, 5 male and 1 mixed applicants.

The approved artists are:

Elisabeth Belgrano & Felicia Konrad / Emilie Bardon & Konrad Behr / Zoi Efstathiou / Sanna Blennow & Rebecka Holmström / Johanna Malm / Zwoisy Mears-Clarke / Miyuki Inoue / Stephanie Hayes / Tim Shaw and Jacek Smolicki / KAI OKE

Deadlines for our Open Call are: February 1st – May 1st – September 1st – November 1st

We have now gone through the applications for the third deadline of the Make Sound Residency. Because of the cancellation of earlier decided residency we were able to select three residents this time. The selected artists in residency are: Rune Søchting, Barbara & Marie-Louise and Yann Coppier. The residencies will take place during the Fall of 2018 and the Winter of 2018/2019. More info about the residents and their project will be published on our website and Facebook page shortly.

The next deadline for Make Sound is October 1^st.

In our last Open Call in February we received 27 very qualified applications. 16 were approved. 54% of the applicants are women. More than half of the applicants were international, and seven of these were based in Denmark, which is the highest number of both international and Danish applicants for the Open Call ever.

The approved artists are:

Jacob Remin & Sergey Filatov / Diethild Maier / Viktor Landström / Waileth & Bardon / Kirstine Lindemann / Anne Eckersberg / Anna Jakobsson / Akiko Diegel / Jakob Riis & Mike Sheridan / Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard / Mariella Ottosson / Johan Lundin / Eric Peters / Christian Rønn

Deadlines for our Open Call are: February 1st – May 1st – September 1st – November 1st

 Intonal Festival: 26-29 April

Save the dates for our forth Intonal Festival with Inkonst. Check the almost full programme and info about tickets here. At IAC we present a series of acousmatic concerts in our Red room, followed by talks in the Café and all days you can experience sound and video installations by Lisa Nyberg & Julia Giertz and Jørgen Teller.

Welcome to the 20th anniversary of the Gallerinatt in Malmö with an open house at the Inter Arts Center.
Free admission!

Who now, somewhere, upside down
Kevin Malcolm
Location: White room

This solo exhibition by Kevin Malcolm presents works from an ongoing artistic research project initiated in 2014.
This project asks questions of European identity and the role of the artist as collector and exhibitor of images and objects.
A new publication, co-published by Varv Varv and Woodpecker Projects, will be launched at the opening.

21.00 reading by the artist and writer Henning Lundkvist from a text produced for our book on Malcolm’s work.

Parts / Part 1 – Pendant; Part 2 – Possession; Part 3 – Enchant
Ana Rebordão, Kent Olofsson (sound)
Location: Black Room

The three-channel video “Parts” resembles a medieval triptych, where some figures are selected and monitored.
The women of the images exist amongst two spoken languages, English and French, and two sources of sound. On one hand, disturbing compositions, on the other, a clear voice over.

H e (a) r – Sound installation and live performance
Carina Ehrenholm, Angela Rawlings, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Liv Kaastrup Vesterskov, Nguyễn Thanh Thủy
Location: Red room

H e (a) r, a work in four movements, received premiere at Nordic Music Days 2016 and has since then been aired in Iceland, UK and Sweden.
The live performance takes place between 20-20.45 and as a little treat a free, limited edition of the photographic scores will be given away to early birds.

The installation is open until Midnight.

Dialogue – Artist talk
Sreejata Roy
Location: Seminar Room

Visiting IASPIS artist Sreejata Roy will present her ongoing practice in New Delhi.
Inspecting everyday freedom through the lens of gendered identities in the urban village of Khirki, New Delhi.

In the running period of 12 days we have hosted more than 3.000 visitors, 17 guided tours and approx. 61 performances!

We thank the artists, the performers, our staff and our partners – the Botaniska trädgården, the Universitetsbiblioteket i Lund and Lunds kommun – to have made the exhibiton so successful!

The project was co-curated by Inter Arts Center and Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art. It was supported and part of Lund University’s 350^th anniversary celebration.

Participating artists:

The point of departure for this exhibition is Kungshuset, the King’s House, one of Lund’s oldest buildings and the home of the university during several centuries. With works by international and local artists the exhibition reflects on the notion of knowledge: What is knowledge? How and where is it produced and used? And who is it for? The Indian art collective Raqs Media Collective produces a site-specific work stretching across several rooms in the building and functioning like the exhibition’s spine. The university is a vital part of Lund, but it is also a closed institution. In this exhibition, the entire King’s House is opened to the public for the first time ever and visitors are given the opportunity to wander freely on all floors and discover both the building and the art.

The two first Make Sound residents in 2017

The composers Christian Skjødt and Kaj Duncan David are the first two to have been awarded a residency at Inter Arts Center. Here is what they will each use their stay for:

Christian Skjødt (f. 1980)

Composer and sound artist Christian Skjødt has been awarded a two month stay at IAC in spring 2017, where he will have the opportunity to develop his artistic work regarding phenomenological studies manifested as sound installations/works. He will do so on the basis of the Russian scientist Kéon Theremin’s (1986-1993) inventions ranging from music instruments and monitoring technology.

“I believe that the combination of experimental art and artistic research that IAC offers is obvious in connection with my project and my work in general.

For instance, I specifically hope to draw on researchers and competencies in the human perception, low- power electronics and interface design. Further, I see that having both studio, recording studio, and various viewing platforms available as a unique opportunity to try out ideas and to develop”.

Christian Skjødt’s research will result in an installation as part of Intonal Festival in Malmø April 27th-30th 2017.

Kaj Duncan David (f. 1988)

Kaj Duncan David has been awarded a residency at IAC in late summer 2017 for developing a work for electronic wind quartet and light, commissioned by the Swiss saxophone quartet, ARTE Quartett.

”In this work, I will convert raw MIDI data directly from the instruments (AKAI EWIs) to light via DMX. This means I can explore an interactive relationship between musician, sound and light that is more nuanced and complex than in my previous pieces.

In order to develop such a connection between sound and light, as well as learn about the use of different light equipment in order to develop the idea of a light sculpture, the technical assistance and the resources that IAC offers, is essential”

Critical representation & VR is a Nordic collaborative project led by author-directors Emma Bexell & Stefan Stanisic of Swedish company of performing arts Bombina Bombast. The main part of the work will take place in Malmö and Inter Arts Center but activities also occur in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Oslo.

Bexell and Stanisic will work at IAC with a combination of criticism and practice in a series of workshops and productions where they, together with invited artists and HCI researchers, explore the performative uses of virtual reality technologies and the radical potential of  VR to present perspectives and narratives where audience agency and embodiment are unconditional parts of the storytelling. The aim is to develop methods for the artistic process with focus on diversity in representation, and explore audience experience.

As part of a new residency program for contemporary music, sound art and experimental club culture in collaboration with Inkonst, the artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe will work in IAC’s studio on the project Phantom Feed, focusing on the exploration of absence in narration. During Malmö Gallery Night 24 September, he will give us a work in progress performance at 22.00.

Lisa Busby and Gabriel Bohm Calles are undertaking the first stage of an investigation to explore unprofessional frameworks, unheard sounds, untrained bodies; uncovering value in prosaic and overlooked gesture. Informed by their shared research interests in empowerment through the everyday and ‘availablism’, traditional club or gig experiences are deconstructed, and personal and sociocultural conventions and tropes interrogated and exploded. By creating a shared field of activity where their roles and actions become dissolved, transcending their respective fields of sound and movement, they are working towards understating how to ‘remix’ their own practices and reflecting on how this could inform our conception and enactment of research.