Bodily Interfaces / CATALYSTS is an artistic research project that deepens the artistic collaboration between Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Susan Kozel, Jeannette Ginslov and Keith Lim. The distinct somatic and choreographic approach to Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR/MR) developed by the team for the earlier work Conspiracy Archives is expanded with a particular emphasis on investigating the capacity of AI within this context.

Thousand Times Yes is a philosophical, haunting and poetic investigation of the limits and possibilities of language, communication, space, and the body. The piece is a collaboration between composer and musician Marja Ahti (Turku), librettist Jenny Kalliokulju (Bjuv) and director Essi Kausalainen (Helsinki) moving fluently across different genres and disciplines. Through its multidisciplinary and intergenerational working group, the performance challenges the concept of opera and its aesthetics, as well as its hierarchical tradition

This year's Malmö Gallery Weekend is a unique opportunity to see artists live at the IAC as we open the doors to a wider audience. You are invited to examine works by Sasha Bergstrom-Katz, Make Sound residents Jacob Remin and Dennis P Paul, IASPIS resident Sebastian Moske and finally, on Friday a series of performances in our open Café area with Moa Franzén, Saga Gärde, Filip Vest and Axel Berger.

‘Primal Data’ explores sound and light as direct links between our own neural networks (AKA wet computers / bodies) and computer networks. Through a series of explorations of algorithmic composition and media experiments, generative complexity and brutalistic repetition, we are on the search for peak data <-> body resonance.

Sebastian Moske works with literature, that he cuts up to open and suggestive text tapestries read out by performers. These texts become part of a rhythmical video filmed on locations that are in interesting tension to the texts accumulated. He will read The Poetic Edda, different Swedish Crime Novels and is very interested in “Kallocain” by Karin Boye.

The Öresund Collegium for Artistic Research aims to develop collaborations with researchers, artists and their respective institutions in the Öresund region. Its point of departure resides in the fertile and versatile artistic and academic culture prevailing in the area: the three academies of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, the other faculties of LU, the neighbouring universities on both sides of the Öresund, as well as a plethora of local artistic, cultural, social and ecological agents.

‘Critical Dialogs’ is a contemporary art podcast that will investigate the latent potential of the podcast format to support critical dialogue and innovative forms of art criticism. ‘Critical Dialogs’ will explore emergent approaches to and forms for art criticism that are enabled by today’s media landscape and changing public sphere. Pilot episodes will take the form of conversations among professional art critics on topical issues such as decolonizing/queering art criticism, and the ethics of critique.