Projects

Mylla is a musical performance piece that addresses our emotional, economic and vital relationship with the earth and how it is changing. The performance is based on 9 compositions and stories inspired by the current situation of farmers in Skåne. Mylla unites Liv Kastrup Vesterskov (idea, direction), Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (sound design, composition), Gylleboverket (scenography) and Adam Knapasjö (dramaturgy) and improvisers Ida Lundén, Johannes Nästesjä and Nguyen Thanh Thuy.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Pernilla Grahn, Ronald Beghetto

9 May 2022 - 13 May 2022

This year’s project will focus on “Uncertainty and Possibility” emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as students and researchers seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. The week at IAC is an incubator and innovation hub where teacher students experiment on how creativity can engrain music teacher education and future music education is schools from a cross art disciplinary perspective.

STRINGS

Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir

11 April 2022 - 7 May 2022

STRINGS is a performative encounter with researchers from the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University about what motivates their research by Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir, THM. The performance explores the driving forces of change and what personal motivations humans have for pursuing their vision. The site of the encounters is the University of Lund with its atmospheric environment, history and divers hubs of knowledgemaking in Lund and Malmö.

INTONAL 2022

Martyna Kosecka, Yann Coppier, Jenny Gräf, Jaleh Negari, Daniel M Karlsson, Magnus Bunnskog, Ambulance on Fire (Jūra Elena Šedytė & Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė), Arturas Bumšteinas, Antanas Dombrovskij, Alessandro Perini, Francesco Del Nero, Jakob Riis

21 April 2022 - 24 April 2022

This year’s Intonal programme at IAC is supported by and curated in collaboration with the partners in a Nordic network for sound-based residencies, where both IAC and Inkonst are members. The other network partners are Notam (Oslo), EMS (Stockholm), Danish Composer’s Society (Denmark) and Rupert (Vilnius). And in addition to this we continue our long-term collaboration with the Ars Nova Ensemble and their festival SOUND SPACES. As a response to the pandemic, we have decided and prioritized only to have live acts this year. We will have seven acousmatic concerts (in the Red Room) and three live performances (in the Black Room).

Nanocosmic Investigations

Tim Bishop & Beniamino Gentile, Christine Kettaneh & Natalia Milas, Ish S & Bryan Jones, Jeannette Ginslov, Keith Lim & Emil Rofors, Ashley Middleton & Swati Aggarwal, Axel Straschnoy & Iain Sutton

5 April 2022 - 10 April 2022

A group exhibition and seminar at IAC as the final event of the "Artists in conversation with ESS (residency) programme", showcasing some of the output from all the artists and scholars who have collaborated in this programme. The opening event is open to the public and will include a short introduction and an artist-guided tour of the exhibition. The seminar will focus more on the process of the collaboration between all artists and scientists, and even reflect on future perspectives and how to further develop the field of arts and science.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Pernilla Grahn, Ronald Beghetto

21 March 2022 - 25 March 2022

IASPIS residency

Joe Kessler

21 March 2022 - 19 April 2022

Artist, cartoonist and co-founder of Breakdown Press, Joe Kessler (London), is invited to Malmö as part of IASPIS International Programme for Visual and Media Artists. Joe Kessler is currently contributing to the development of comics with new design techniques. Inspired by risography, he colors his images in different layers with the help of a computer, and then has them offset printed with selected colors. The residency is hosted by K3, the Department of Arts, Culture and Communication. Joe Kessler will return and continue his residency in August and September.

VKBP Malmö Producer Meet-Up

Sabina Husberg Götlind, Silas Lilo Jensen, Lotta Fahlén

26 March 2022 - 27 March 2022

A full weekend of workshops, songwriting and production sessions, and knowledge sharing. Vem kan bli Producent aims to challenge structures in the studio and producer world and make technology accessible to underrepresented groups. The full programme will be announced shortly. Pre-registration is required.

Region Skåne residency

SPECT scenkonst, Tim Bishop

25 January 2022 - 10 February 2022

Together with Tim Bishop, SPECT scenkonst will work i. a. on ideas and techniques for sound installations. The project will explore three ideas in particular: senses in the dark, headphone encounters and staged sociograms. At the IAC, they will create a space using various tools such as spatial sound devices, lighting technology, biometric sensors, texts and scenographic elements. The experiences from the project will end up in a podcast.

Region Skåne residency

Stefan Stanisic, Emma Bexell, Jesper Berger, Robin Jonsson

14 February 2022 - 27 February 2022

Together with dancer and choreographer Robin Jonsson, Bombina Bombast will explore how rehearsals can work remotely in a shared live virtual environment. The aim of the collaboration is to develop a system that enables dancers, choreographers, actors and directors to rehearse remotely embodied as avatars. Lessons from the project will be taught in a public seminar.

THE VOID

Malene Begtrup, Mario Ochoa, Lise Kroner , Hannes Bennich, Nikoline Jørgensen

14 March 2022 - 17 April 2022

THE VOID is a journey in Virtual Reality, where live music and a 360 degrees movie is mixed into an intimate and interactive concert-performance, where all your senses will be activated. You are invited to a universe, where everything is possible. The performance will use VR to create an abstract dreamworld, where the audience is situated in the middle of the performance.

INTONAL 2022

Big Brave, Bill Ruyle; Peter Zummo & Members Of MSO: Arthur Russel's Tower Of Meaning, Dj Bone, Fulu Miziki, Fågelle, Grouper, and many more

20 April 2022 - 24 April 2022

This year, Intonal has invited artists from all over the world to Malmö, connecting them with local heroes and participants. Some are true legends in their fields – like Grouper or DJ Bone, others are legends in the making, like Kinshasa based Fulu Miziki or Manchester’s Space Afrika. We will also present several world premieres commissioned by the festival, in many cases by artists working with Intonal residencies, like Hiro Kone, Vincent Bahar and Japanese duo WaqWaq Kingdom.
And much more, as ever.

Reaching for the utmost limits

Johannes Nästesjö

10 January 2022 - 21 January 2022

For 20 years Johannes Nästesjö has worked as a professional double bass player and teacher in the genres of modern jazz, improvised and contemporary music. He currently conducts artistic research at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Johannes will demonstrate how the music evolves and becomes a part of a personal and independent musical language; hence, the importance of studying, learning, and then transforming and personalizing already existing techniques from contemporary music.

GSTL / Make Sound Residency

Alma Hede

3 January 2022 - 23 January 2022

GSTL is an immersive sound art research-project and exhibition that seeks to engage an audience in exploring their auditory perceptive abilities. In a complete immersive musical experience, how much do you hear and where do you have to stand to perceive the music in its completion? GSTL is a gentle offering for the audience to explore themselves and the music they are moving in.

Game Changers

Elin Lundgren, Petter Pettersson

7 March 2022 - 13 March 2022

The work-in-progress project Game Changers’ – is a workshop in electro-composition and choreographed audience interaction in 3 parts. During January and February Lundgren & Pettersson will explore the 2nd and 3rd parts. Lundgren & Pettersson has during the last term in 2021 explored and done an electric soundscape in collaboration with the Malmö based musician & singer Cecilia Nordlund. Now Lundgren & Pettersson will continue the pre-study and investigate group affiliation and exclusion with a focus on the viewer's attitude and what governs the narrative and group dynamics in a live work through workshops at IAC.

Family life – recomposed / Make Sound Residency

Yann Coppier, Gry Søbye

3 January 2022 - 16 January 2022

Family life, and children in general are commonly associated with chaos and unsolicited noise. This project aims at recording the everyday life in a family through a network of 16 microphones set in an apartment located on a pedestrian street, in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, in a family of four. The technique used will be adapted to the place, capturing its acoustics in ways that won’t allow to dissociate the place from the people nor from objects used.

Sound Interaction Through Physical Phenomena

Nicklas Lundberg

7 December 2021 - 2 January 2022

Nicklas Lundberg continues to explore and research interaction with sound through interfaces that use physical phenomena as the vehicle for generating content while the human performer remains the agent in terms of form. Many inspiring questions arise when using an environment like this: about the nature of musical gestures, the correlation between agent and sound; topics that are as important today as they have been in the past, not the least in the history of electro acoustic and acousmatic music and theory.

Radical Listening Session #1: POINTS OF TRANSDUCTION / Make Sound Residency

Jenny Gräf Sheppard

10 January 2022 - 16 January 2022

'Radical Listening Sessions' will be collective research and workshopping around several themes contained within Jenny Gräf Sheppard’s PhD 'Communicating Vessels: re-defining agency through sounding'. Each theme will be explored through experiments with electronics, movement, readings and discussion. The outcome of each session will be a document, sound piece or video that is a reflection of the research. It may take the form of an art piece or of a documentation.

HUSH

Elin Maria Johansson, Vibeke Bryld

8 December 2021 - 14 December 2021

The project takes it outset in the previous work, ‘Hush’, a 10 min sensorial VR installation that lets the user become the subject of a Northern myth. During their research time at IAC, the artists will experiment on how to deepen the relationship between the inner experience and the physical space around us. For this purpose, both light, image and interactive techniques are used. The aim is to shift the sensorial experience from the virtual area to the real one, thereby strengthening the sensorial experience of the work.

Sounding the Body Electric / Make Sound Residency

Jenny Gräf Sheppard, MV Carbon

16 December 2021 - 22 December 2021

The Body Electromagnetic is a tactile and audio instrument-sculpture developed with feedback from residents from three social institutions in Denmark; one for the blind, one for youth with psychological issues, and one for older people with Dementia. The work involves activating flat speakers that produce sounds via coming in contact with hand held magnets controlled by the users. The aim for the Make Sound residency is to develop the instrument-sculpture further and to record and mix the sounds produced from it by the residents of the institutions as well as those Jenny makes herself.

GESTALT MINIMAL; the love songs

Greta Eacott, Aase Nielsen

7 December 2021 - 8 December 2021

GESTALT MINIMAL; the love songs, is a collaboration between the percussionist/composer Greta Eacott (One Take Records/ G·Bop Orchestra) and the producer Aase Nielsen (MC Boli, Boli Group). In December they will spend an intensive two day session at IAC's Sound Studio A to produce a full length record of the five works. GESTALT MINIMAL is a series of five instrumental works composed by Greta Eacott that deals with expanded notions of rhythm – in particular; the series explores creating instrumental ensemble works that are constructed without having any singular solid spine or unifying backbone.

Traces of costume material sampling salons / Exhibition

Charlotte Østergaard

15 November 2021 - 2 December 2021

The exhibition offers a glimpse into Charlotte Østergaard’s costume research process as 'remains of her PhD project “Costume sampling. Embodied making and moving experimentation/conversations”, that took place in the Black Room from 1 to 11 November. During the individual sessions the participants explored, experimented, and discussed particular costume material though the acts of making and moving. The exhibition consists of a textile installation and a sketchbook.

DRAUMR

Eva Sidén, Christian Rønn

25 November 2021 - 28 November 2021

Eva Sidén and Christian Rønn are one of the most interesting duos in the artistic filed of both creating and performing new music. They are both classical trained as soloists on the keyboards, (piano and organ) but have developed a unique style of combining composition and performing with different keyboard instruments and electronics. Sometimes their work and concerts are transformed to installations with sound and video and graphic scored-performances.

ლოცვა / LOTSVA

Mariam Gviniashvili

22 November 2021 - 26 November 2021

During the residency, Mariam will be working on a second version of her piece for multichannel electronics - ლოცვა / LOTSVA, commissioned by Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe. The piece is based on the prayers and chants from around the world that Mariam began collecting during the March 2021 lockdown. As she collects the recordings, she creates a new version of the piece each time it is performed. The first version of the piece was performed in Oslo, Fredrikstad and Trondheim and consisted of 24 songs from 20 countries. The second version will be composed during the residency and presented at the IAC on November 26 (more info TBA).

Female Prayers

Nevin Tuna Erönde

15 November 2021 - 21 November 2021

'Female Prayers' is based on the idea that one day we will hear female voices calling for prayer in public spaces. A peaceful message, where soundscapes are used as a medium to explore social and cultural issues, religion and gender through the lens of intersectionality. The story is unfolding through spoken letters addressed to the artist Nevin Tuna Erönde’s, late maternal grandmother, who was a practicing Muslim. Erönde re-connects to her by drawing parallels between the Muslim spiritual practices, and her own yoga practice. The performative art installation removes the boundaries between the audience and scene.

NJYD feat. James Black / Nya Låtar (’new songs’)

Marie Sønderskov, Mikkel Egelund, Jonas Weitling, Anja Nedremo, James Black

1 November 2021 - 14 November 2021

Nya Låtar (Swedish – ’new songs’) is a work of instrumental theatre by composer-performer James Black in collaboration with NJYD quartet. The work will have its roots in the contemporary classical tradition, but will include large elements of performance art, cabaret, and theatre. The piece will last between 20 and 30 minutes, and will be performed by NJYD quartet and the composer themselves. All aspects of the piece – staging, costumes, video, etc. – will be made by the composer and the quartet. The piece will be premiered at Klang Festivalen 2022 in Copenhagen.

Oracle

Justine Maxelon, Caroline Daish, Laszlo Umbreit

21 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

‘Oracle’ is an eyes-closed body-voice improvisation practice reading diverse spaces: train stations, parks, institutions, forests, public libraries, urban gardens and private living spaces. It interacts with these surroundings through instant sound and movement composition and expands the boundaries between individual emotional expressions and shared public space. Each practice session is unique to the moment and context.

PARADIGM

Kaia Zoe

18 October 2021 - 24 October 2021

The project “PARADIGM – Holobionts, interconnected matter and stories from the periphery” consists of several media – here a spatial installation with a smaller selection of sculpture, sound, light and xerox excerpts from a book in becoming together with a first version of the book. A holobiont is made up of a host organism serving space and sharing nutrients with other life forms, like sub species in the human microbiome. Together with the external microbial and molecular world the entity of our cells and microbes form an ecological continuum – we are nature even when culture has cut out our awareness of that interdependence.

IASPIS residency programme

Francesco Fonassi

1 October 2021 - 31 December 2021

Francesco Fonassi is an Italian artist, sonic researcher and musician operating in the field of live media, contemporary art, transmission art and experimental music since 2006. His work, developed through actions, recordings, environmental configurations, radio transmissions, listening sessions, sculptural prototypes, experimental music and the creation of audiovisuals and sensory spaces, has been featured in institutions, museums, festivals and independent spaces in Europe, Asia and United States.

Sound Interaction Through Physical Phenomena

Nicklas Lundberg

2 October 2021 - 17 October 2021

Nicklas Lundberg will through this project explore and research interaction with sound through interfaces that use physical phenomena as the vehicle for generating content while the human performer remains the agent in terms of form. Many inspiring questions arise when using an environment like this: about the nature of musical gestures, the correlation between agent and sound; topics that are as important today as they have been in the past, not the least in the history of electro acoustic and acousmatic music and theory.

HÉR! An Exploration of Artistic Agency / 75%-seminar

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir

30 September 2021 - 1 October 2021

Doctoral candidate, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, presents her artistic research project in Music. September 30 sees a special live performance of 'Violin with Þytur' by Kent Olofsson, performed within the 9 mono channel installation 'Þytur' by Stefánsdóttir. The event is part of her 75% doctoral seminar with Professor Marcel Cobussen from University of Leiden/Doc Artes acting as opponent. Currently titled 'HÉR! An exploration of Artistic Agency', Stefánsdóttir's work is set to provide a further understanding of the situated, emergent agency in music and sound art.

CATALYSTS – Bodily Interfaces

Susan Kozel, Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Jeannette Ginslov, Keith Lim

23 August 2021 - 28 January 2022

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

Essi Kausalainen, Marja Ahti, Jenny Kalliokulju

20 September 2021 - 26 September 2021

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

Inter Feral Arts

Bremer Schlagzeugensemble, Gageego! & Elefantöra, Felicita Brusoni, Bertrand Chaviarra-Aldrete, Vortex Ensemble, Fernando Garnero, Ensemble L'Itinéraire

6 October 2021 - 29 October 2021

During October 2021, the Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University and the Inter Arts Center will hold the next Inter Feral Arts Festival. The festival will include concerts, lectures, workshops, a panel discussion on art and science, and three 25% PhD seminars. Our guest ensembles include: ensemble l’itinéraire (France), Gageego! (Sweden), Bremer Schlagzeugensemble (Germany), ensemble Vortex (Switzerland), and Elefantöra (Sweden).

Malmö Gallery Weekend 2021

Jacob Remin, Dennis P Paul, Sasha Bergstrom-Katz, Sebastian Moske, Moa Franzén, Saga Gärde & others, Filip Vest, Axel Berger

24 September 2021 - 26 September 2021

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 / Make Sound Residency

Jacob Remin, Dennis P Paul

13 September 2021 - 26 September 2021

‘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.

On the Subject of Tests: Rehearsing the Examination

Sasha Bergstrom-Katz

23 August 2021 - 29 August 2021

'On the Subject of Tests' is a practice-led research project that examines the designs and procedures of psychometric testing. Specifically, it opens up and analyses three twentieth-century-intelligence tests developed to assess children and adults in the United States and beyond. Interwoven in the history of eugenics, education practices, military and prison regimes and the neoliberalisation of workplaces and schools, these intelligence tests deserve an affective and embodied unpacking. Using the IAC’s Black Room as site, artist and researcher Sasha Bergstrom-Katz will record extended rehearsals of the tests' manuals in a project entitled 'On the Subject of Tests: Rehearsing the Examination'.

Born Without Hands

Maja Karlsson, Leif Holmstrand, Samuel A.D. Martín

8 July 2021 - 18 July 2021

'Born Without Hands' is a chorus with an unknown number of voices (belonging to an unknown number of species) giving thanks, praise and head, exorcising and conjuring all of this love wrath. The tools include prayer, knitting, terror, candelabras, breathing and dying.

Fuga dall’Egitto

Yasmine Elbaramawy, Miriam Selima Fieno, Nicola Di Chio

22 June 2021 - 28 June 2021

Miriam Selima Fieno and Nicola Di Chio,l two Italian actors and theater directors, are now creating with Egyptian musician, sound artist, Oud performer and composer Yasmine El Baramawy the documentary theater show "Fuga dall'Egitto", a work that which sheds light on the phenomenon of the post-2013 Egyptian diaspora, or on all those activists who, betrayed by the military and threatened with repression and torture in Egypt, they were forced to choose the precarious and painful path of exile.

IASPIS / Malmö Konsthall residency

Sebastian Moske

20 June 2021 - 30 September 2021

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.

Immersive Days #1: Blackout

tim bishop

9 June 2021 - 13 June 2021

"Blackout" is a sensory performance and sound work for one person at a time. The work takes place in total darkness and uses spatial audio and haptic feedback to create a multi-sensory and evocative environment for a powerfully self-reflective experience. An unseen voice and a physical guide encourage participants on an introspective journey, exploring both virtual spaces and the physical room through 3D sound and touch.

Immersive Days #1: Hush

elin maria johansson, vibeke bryld

8 June 2021 - 13 June 2021

"Hush" invites the viewer to tune in to an ancient world that generations of northerners once knew - when man, animals and nature were connected, and nature was animated. The work provides the opportunity to experience a mythological landscape that is brought to life and communicates with the viewer in a three-dimensional universe, where nature and myth are united in a poetic and sensual experience.

Immersive Days #1: Lundahl & Seitl and ScanLAB Projects

Lundahl & Seitl (Christer Lundahl & Martina Seitl)

8 June 2021 - 13 June 2021

In this series, Lundahl & Seitl join up with British digital studio ScanLAB Projects to combine pointcloud laser scans in VR, with choreography and sculpture. The piece creates a complex matrix which can be experienced as an immersive world in which you, the observer, are embedded, and as a physical display of hyperconnected objects with unseen realms inaccessible to you.

INTONAL 2021 at IAC

Francesco Del Nero, Alessandro Perini, Ingvild Skandsen, Lola Ajima, Lasse Munk, Paolo Pastorino, Sophie Delafontaine

18 June 2021 - 20 June 2021

The acousmonium is back and ready to diffuse a selection of brand new electronic and acousmatic pieces as well as some classics. It is now 10 years since the acousmonium was first set up at Inter Arts Center. The world was very different then. Nevertheless we continue to renew the collaboration between Inkonst, IAC and SOUND SPACES to present a window on the current status of acousmatic music in Europe. Have a look at the programme...

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Eva Saether

10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

This year’s project will focus on ”Uncertainty and Possibility” emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as students and researchers seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. Advancing a practical agenda for future making, it will reveal how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative ”technology” for understanding, researching and intervening the world.

BARBARA

Moa Franzén

3 May 2021 - 6 June 2021

The project “Barbara” (the feminine form of the Greek word barbarous, meaning strange, uncivilized, someone who speaks a broken speech) will depart from Moa Franzén’s work with voice as a choreographic material and tool. Through vocal practices Moa will explore different expressions of what is considered human – as well as nonhuman, or “subhuman” – and how we use them or suppress them according to gendered, social, ideological or private grounds. Where and how is the border between the human and the animal crossed? Where, and when, are the in-betweens and how do they sound? For which bodies?

“The Garden”, Sound Bench at Botan

Jonna Hägg

3 May 2021 - 24 June 2021

The Sound Environment Centre has acquired a sound bench for different sound experiments, artistic projects and the communication of research. During the Sustainability Week and until mid-summer, the bench will be placed in the Botanical Garden, where a site-specific sound artwork has been developed especially for the bench. For several years, the artist behind the work, Jonna Hägg, has been exploring how the soundscape of the world in general is changing. Human sounds have become so pervasive on earth that we have created a third category just for them: anthropophony. The sound installation is a collaboration between the Sound Environment Centre, the Botanical Garden and the Inter Arts Center, which produced the installation.

INTONAL 2021

16 June 2021 - 20 June 2021

Intonal is an annual festival for experimental and electronic music that has been held in Malmö, Sweden since 2015. The focus of the festival is to offer an international programme of experimental and electronic music covering a wide range of genres, subgenres and unique expressions. An exclusive five day exploration of experimental music and art.

Acousmatic Lab #3

The Absurdum Temporary Art, Hertzbreakerz, Alessandro Perini

29 March 2021 - 18 April 2021

In the Red Room a smaller version of the Acousmonium will be set up with around 20 speakers. For two weeks the space will be open for different practices. In particular the students of the electroacoustic music courses at the Malmö Academy of Music are going to get acquainted with the techniques of sound diffusion, presenting their final work on the 10th of April. Acousmatic music diverges from the standards of instrumental music, composed in a studio and projected live through a constellation of speakers.

HUSH

Elin Maria Johansson, Vibeke Bryld

12 April 2021 - 18 April 2021

Electro moves – Game Changers

Elin Lundgren, Petter Pettersson, Cecilia Nordlund

22 April 2021 - 10 June 2021

The work-in-progress project ‘Electromoves - Game Changers' is a workshop in electro-composition and choreographed audience interaction in 3 parts. Lundgren & Pettersson aim to explore, make a pre-study and an electric soundscape in collaboration with the Malmö based musician & singer Cecilia Nordlund. They will investigate group affiliation and exclusion with a focus on the viewer's attitude and what governs the narrative and group dynamics in a live work through a workshop at IAC.

Lowlands

Karis Zidore, Emma Cecilia Ajanki, Lea Paulsen

26 April 2021 - 9 May 2021

Tumbling into the space after sadness, ‘Lowlands’ is a soft lament to the voice of self critique. The work shapes a meditative landscape of rippling blue tissue paper that lulls and endures. Images emerge evoking a body falling apart and gathering itself together again, a body at sea and a body on a patchwork of waves. 'Lowlands' is a large-scale solo performance by choreographer Emilia Gasiorek that spans the deep blue depths of our personal emotional landscapes and collective geographical environments.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Eva Saether

22 March 2021 - 26 March 2021

Rêves accaparés / Inkonst Music residency

Uriel Barthélémi

12 March 2021 - 21 March 2021

Drummer & electro-acoustic musician Uriel Barthélémi is continuing his Inkonst music residency at IAC, which started in October 2020. ‘Rêves accaparés’ is a reflection on the different appropriations of sound worlds by state structures and multinationals. An open vision of how sound can become a tool of control, serving to provoke joy, fear, relaxation, violence, torture, the dispersion of the masses, or even to stimulate sales, etc...

IASPIS residency

Paolo Thorsen-Nagel

1 March 2021 - 16 June 2021

For “Your sonic medicine” Paolo Thorsen-Nagel will be conducting practical research on different modes of listening. How we perceive sound in relation to space, both physical and mental, will be the driving question for a series of sonic investigations revolving around our listening sense. These experimental settings aim to produce both, more documentary findings, as well as interactive and performative works.

IN PROCESS – Experiments and errors (part 2)

Oona Libens

1 March 2021 - 14 March 2021

As selected artist for the open call "IN PROCESS – Experiments and errors" by HAUT and IAC, Oona Libens starts the second part of her residency at IAC. Through the research project 'Spider Threads' Oona will investigate the relationship between binary technology and weaving, as part of a bigger question about how the digital technology could be defined by curiosity and inclusivity instead of commerce and surveillance.

Connect 2021

12 March 2021 - 14 March 2021

Connect is a three-day festival, arranged by Tongeneration and the composition students from Musikhögskolan. Its aim is to present a varied take on today's contemporary art music, with music written in the continuous development of Western art music, either for traditional ensemble settings or for more obscure ones. The festival also focuses strongly on exploring and evolving the versatile opportunities provided in an electro-acoustic setting.

Born Without Hands

Maja Karlsson, Leif Holmstrand, Samuel A.D. Martín

25 January 2021 - 14 March 2021

From Soul to Other

Martine Flor

18 January 2021 - 21 February 2021

During her residency Martine Flor will work on a new video which will be a part of a larger project. This video evolves around a scanned document, containing an anonymously handwritten text with thoughts on psychoanalysis and its relation to language and representation, the image and the gaze. Martine is interested in working with a tension between different ways of seeing and reading, between a materiality of things and the immateriality of the digital, as well the handwriting itself and its assumed relation to memory, thinking and the subconscious.

Soap

Emilia Bergmark

9 February 2021 - 4 March 2021

'Soap' is a new work being produced by the artist Emilia Bergmark for the exhibition with the same name at the project space Sirin, in Copenhagen. The work was inspired by a sub-genre of British Social Realism known as the "Kitchen-sink-drama". Taking place in the private sphere of the home, 'Soap' addresses contemporary anxieties such as economy, performance pressure, and equality in the modern home with a humorous approach.

Caresses

Karis Zidore, Paolo Gile De Venecia, Elin Stampe, Naya Moll

4 January 2021 - 17 January 2021

‘Caresses’ is a choreographic work by choreographer and dancer, Emilie Gregersen. It is a duet that delves into a sensuous relationship between two bodies navigating through touch as they unfold its influences both on a sensory and emotional level. The act of caressing is being amplified and stretched on scales of intimacy and distance, attraction and repulsion, casual gesture and heightened bodily experience. The piece is a part of her performance series that studies perceptions of touch from a phenomenological and choreographic perspective.

Yasmine El Baramawy

1 November 2020 - 31 December 2020

We are happy to welcome Yasmine, who found her way to the IAC through a collaboration with Safemuse and Notam. Yasmine Baramawy is an Egyptian musician, sound artist, Oud performer and composer who came to Malmö through the ICORN City of refuge programme in 2020. She develops an original sound universe around her practice of the Oud - one of the world’s oldest instruments.

IN PROCESS – Experiments and errors (part 1)

Oona Libens

5 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

As selected artist for the open call "IN PROCESS – Experiments and errors" by HAUT and IAC, Oona Libens has started her residency at HAUT. In her research project 'Spider Threads' Oona will investigate the relationship between binary technology and weaving, as part of a bigger question about how the digital technology could be defined by curiosity and inclusivity instead of commerce and surveillance.

Beredskapsarbetaren

Ellinor Ingvar-Henschen, Joachim Saxenborn, Johan Svansjö, Hillevi Hillerud, Jonatan Sersam, Niklas Hansson

29 November 2020 - 6 December 2020

The opera company Alltet performs the newly written one-act opera Beredskapsarbetaren. The performance is based on what is known as Sweden’s biggest serial murder, which took place in 1979 at Östra Hospital in Malmö. At that time, an 18-year-old emergency worker poisoned 25 patients in elderly care with disinfectants.

Immersive Days #1

Mirabelle Jones, Gibson / Martelli (Ruth Gibson / Bruno Martelli), Lundahl & Seitl (Christer Lundahl & Martina Seitl), Francis Patrick Brady, Maren Dagny Juell, Tim Bishop, Elin Maria Johansson, Vibeke Bryld, Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, Alessandro Perini, Emma Bexell, Karen Toftegaard, Darshika Karunahara, Lena Bergendahl, Max Ockborn, Untold Garden, Absurdum Temporary Art

8 June 2021 - 13 June 2021

Immersive Days #1 is both a network and a new annual gathering of professional artists, curators, researchers, technicians, teachers and students within a broad field of immersive technologies and (artistic) practices. The initiative functions as a continuation of several symposiums, workshops and research into immersive technologies in art. We meet up to share, explore and playtest XR (extended reality) and immersive sound projects, often works in progress. We give feedback to each other and we share experiences and challenges.

More + With – Less

Alberto Cavallaro, Federico Tramontana, Alessandro Perini, Francesco Del Nero, Simone Corti, Sandra Boss, Justina Repeckaite, Jonatan Sersam

30 October 2020 - 3 November 2020

‘More with less’ is an international collaboration project, involving six composers from four different countries: Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Lithuania. The fruit of this collaboration will be a new repertoire for Duo Dubois, created through vicinity between composers and performers. Duo Dubois is a young duo of saxophone and percussion, dedicated to the research and the production of recent art music.

Black Bird

Maria Naidu, Imre Zsibrik, Kent Olofsson

7 November 2020 - 19 November 2020

Photographer Masahisa Fukases complex work is translated into a choreographic composition that blends movement, projections, soundscape, lighting in a cinematic collage. ‘Black Bird (working title)’ is inspired by the artistry of Fukase as well as his photographic series ‘Karasu’ (The solitude of Ravens) and revolves around the central themes of the series: isolation and tragedy at different levels of depth and abstraction.

Passing Through

Camille Roth

30 November 2020 - 20 December 2020

‘Passing Through’ is a sound installation project that reflects upon the way waves of energy and signals move through and around space and matter. Inspired by her ongoing work with sonification of electromagnetic waves from radio, telephone and Wi-Fi signals, Camille Roth will explore concepts of barriers, connections, interfaces and conducting materials, that shape the way that information flows.

Rêves accaparés / Inkonst Music residency

Uriel Barthélémi

19 October 2020 - 25 October 2020

‘Rêves accaparés’ is a reflection on the different appropriations of sound worlds by state structures and multinationals. An open vision of how sound can become a tool of control, serving to provoke joy, fear, relaxation, violence, torture, the dispersion of the masses, or even to stimulate sales, etc...

HI GUYS!! please, ikke glem meg

Johanna Karlsson, Ingerid Frang

12 October 2020 - 21 October 2020

‘HI GUYS!! please, ikke glem meg’ is a performance, an installation, a space for today's potentially disappearing buildings, ideals, memories and things. In this project, Johanna Karlsson and Ingerid Frang explore the human vulnerability in a time where control over our lives and our identities is constantly growing. In the performance, the audience follows two characters who, quite uncritically, strive to preserve anything that might be lost.

Sonic Sensibility

Morten Poulsen

19 October 2020 - 25 October 2020

During his Open Call residency Morten Poulsen will be developing an artistic work that explore the listener’s own function as co-creator of the heard and the interrelationship between sound and listener. In his research, Morten is interested in discussing artistic interdisciplinarity, ecology, political-artistic potential of sound and listening and perceptual bias.

Sound Spaces 2020

Agata Tuchołka, Natalie Eriksson, Madalena Rodrigues, Hillevi Hillerud, Francesco Del Nero, Jonatan Sersam, Alessandro Perini, Irene Bianco, Enrico Garau, Lucio Garau, Riccardo Sarti, Manuela Villiger, Vera Wahl

16 October 2020 - 31 October 2020

SOUND SPACES is an open window towards nowadays post-classical music world, with internationally active composers and sound artists who are invited to create and perform, infusing different spaces of Malmö with their art. It is an open window towards nowadays post-classical music world, with internationally active composers and sound artists who are invited to create and perform, infusing different spaces of Malmö with their art.

Brakfesten

Oona Libens, Johannes Heldén, Sanne Hellberg, Eva Lindal, Magnus Granberg, Stina Hellberg Agback, Leo Svensson

3 October 2020 - 6 October 2020

‘Brakfesten’ is a digital gesamtkunstwerk, a dance on the volcano’s edge, a quartet for the end of times. For this project the newly formed league Utopidepartementet departs from Oliver Messiaen’s piece Quartet for the End of Time - written in a concentration camp in 1940. With newly composed music and images the musicians and artists meditate upon what it means to be at the end of time in relation to today’s environmental crisis.

Jihad Jane Bootcamp

Johanne Marie Aagaard Laache

5 October 2020 - 11 October 2020

'Jihad Jane Bootcamp' is a performative investigation into radicalization seen through the lens of self-orchestration and body worship. Laache will, during her week-long residency at the IAC, film and produce a series of videos in the style of follow-along exercise videos on youtube that over time become increasingly ardent and militaristic. In this work, Laache explores the extremities of deference and devotion through a fictional fitness-influencer, Jihad Jane.

Transmediating meaning

Janneke Schoene

1 September 2020 - 31 May 2021

‘Transmediating meaning’ analyses audio guides as complex transmedial formats with multiple media shifts: Visual objects, sculptures, paintings, etc., are translated into spoken text whose characteristics, perceptions and readings differ from the ‘original’. An examination of these differences is crucial for the democratic application of audio guides for different visitor groups such as visually impaired visitors that are widely excluded from the art discourse.

Malmö Gallery Week 2020

Mariella Louise Otto, Lena Bergendahl, Mads Kristian Frøslev, Carolina Sandvik, Signe Boe, Sofie Amalie Andersen och Nathalie Cohn, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Kent Olofsson, Francis Patrick Brady, John B McKenna

24 September 2020 - 27 September 2020

IAC is no ordinary showroom. In our daily work, we rarely meet an audience, but a house full of artists who develop, test, and produce innovative projects in the fields of art, music, theater, and dance. This year's Malmö Gallery Week is a unique opportunity to see artists live at the IAC as we open the doors to a wider audience. You are invited to experience new art projects from Lena Bergendahl, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Mariella Louise Otto, Carolina Sandvik, Mads Kristian Frøslev, Duo Hellqvist/Amaral and Sunset Provision Choir.

Personal Spa TV

1 March 2021 - 14 March 2021

Personal Spa TV is a fictional mobile spa that has its own internal TV channel. This spa has recently started exhibiting performance artists. During the exhibition everything is filmed and some kind of spa treatment is also offered to the exhibition visitors. During the residency at IAC Personal Spa TV staff will learn how to work with live stream and how to build a portable TV studio setting with the help of a green screen and perhaps some inflatable TV studio set design.

From Soul to Other

Martine Flor

1 September 2020 - 28 November 2020

This project seeks to investigate technology and its influence on reading and narration in the construction of a coherent and autonomous self. Departing from a Lacanian understanding of language, it seeks to trace the impact of a digital Other on subjectivation: what would the impact of a digital Other completely indifferent of its subjects be? An Other that lacks what is fundamentally human, such as temporality, death and empathy? An Other that repeals the distance between self and market necessary for critical judgment?

The Tactilist

Mariella Louise Otto, Daniel Wade

7 August 2020 - 27 September 2020

'The Tactilist’ is a video installation, departing from the 1921 Manifesto ‘Il Tattilismo’, written by fascist, futurist and poet F.T. Marinetti. Considering Marinetti’s ambivalent subjects of intimacy, touch, violence and ‘the imaginable’ – Mariella Louise Otto uses the futurist ideology as an example of the endless possibilities and powers embedded in language and poetry, as well as a tool for exposing current tendencies within the socio-political.

The Expected

Carolina Sandvik

5 August 2020 - 27 September 2020

'The Expected' is a stop motion animated short film with an estimated length of 15 minutes. The plot revolves around a couple and a failed pregnancy. The imagery and themes are heavily influenced by genre cinema, such as body horror and psychological thrillers. A fairytale and a slow-paced relationship drama set in a confined domestic space where loneliness and violence are equally threatening.

Red Room Project / Make Sound Residency

Julie Nymann, Signe Raunkjær Holm

7 December 2020 - 17 February 2021

The ‘Red Room Project’ explores the displacement between a live performance and the echo thereof, in the performance ‘Red Room Institute’ and the sound installation ‘Use It Well’ (working titles). Inspired by the social phenomenon of ‘dancing epidemics’ in which groups of people were said to contaminate each other with compulsive dancing, the ‘Red Room Project’ investigates relations between audience, performers and the role of the directing voice.

Instrumental Bodies / Make Sound Residency

Lars Kynde, Soeine Bac

9 November 2020 - 4 December 2020

Danish composer and inventor Lars Kynde and Canadian visual artist and dancer Soeine Bac meet in the Make Sound residency to explore their shared interest in integration of sound and movement. They will together transform the space into a large mechanical acoustic instrument-body of strings and steel, which Soeine Bac will explore in relation to her own body by dancing inside it and altering the timbres with her body weight.

Hestia

Hans Carlsson

21 September 2020 - 26 October 2020

Hans Carlsson’s project is Hestia’s story about herself. It is based on a written monologue, where a bitter and neglected goddess tells about the self but also about the history of the home from antiquity to the present day. She does this to remind us that myths and rituals invade the idea of domesticity also in our present time. In addition to a study circle open to the public at IAC, 'Hestia' takes the form of an exhibition at antikvariat Anti in Malmö.

Blackout

Tim Bishop

30 March 2020 - 6 April 2020

'Blackout' is a unique and immersive new performance work for one person at a time by artist Tim Bishop. The work takes place in total darkness and uses spatial audio and haptic feedback to create a multi-sensory and evocative environment for a powerfully self-reflective experience. An unseen voice and a physical guide encourage participants on an introspective journey, exploring both virtual spaces and the physical room through 3D sound and touch.

Deus Ex Machina

Lola Ajima, Ingvild Skandsen, Lasse Munk

3 March 2020 - 25 April 2020

Lola Ajima, Ingvild Skandsen and Lasse Munk all co-founders of the soundartist collective 'Deus Ex Machina', all work in different ways on the acousmonium. This is why they have been invited to do a concert on the acousmonium at Intonal Festival in collobaration with Sound Spaces in April 2020. For the Make Sound residency, they make use of the opportunity to have the acousmonium for a longer period, to do research in spatialisation on their respective styles of acousmatic music, preparing for the concert.

Thousand Times Yes

Essi Kausalainen, Marja Ahti, Jenny Kalliokulju

9 March 2020 - 15 March 2020

'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, librettist Jenny Kalliokulju and director Essi Kausalainen 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.

Creativities transcending boundaries

Anna Houmann, Eva Saether

16 March 2020 - 20 March 2020

The project ”Creativities transcending boundaries” aims at mapping out current research in creativity, within music and broader aspects. Further this project aims to develop concrete suggestion on how creativity can be used as an overall perspective in music teacher education at Malmö Academy of Music. Since the key idea is participatory knowledge making the project entails numerous workshops where teachers and students share experiences, methods, questions and answers.

Eareye

Jeanine Durning, Cullberg / Deborah Hay, Sofia Jernberg, Sukitoa o Namau, Janine Harrington, Tian Rotteveel, Moa Franzén, Rani Nair, Cara Tolmie & Susanna Jablonski, Stina Fors, Olivia Riviere & Lisen Pousette, Cecilia Elinor Bengtsson, Alma Söderberg

5 March 2020 - 7 March 2020

Listen with your eyes and see with your ears. A three-day bash of dance, music and performance. Welcome to a festival indulging in deep, playfully obsessive attention: Choreographic works that are poems. Highly performative concerts. A dance that examines the body as a musical instrument. Another that is music for the eye. EAREYE is a festival that listens with its eyes and see with its ears, curated by choreographer Alma Söderberg.

Changing soundscapes

Jonna Hägg

1 January 2020 - 31 December 2020

During the last months Jonna Hägg has been listening and observing the soundscapes of different islands, recording a lot of sound from these places. At IAC she will continue processing the collected material, create new soundscapes inspired by her observations of how we no longer can differentiate between natural and manmade sound environments. “Natural” nature sounds and manmade sounds are always mixed together, wherever we are.

Way Forward Touch

Cecilia Bengtsson

19 February 2020 - 9 March 2020

Cecilia Bengtsson creates art experiences for audiences and participants where she explores relations between humans, sounds and sculptural objects specifically focused on the concept of letting go. At IAC she will work with her project ‘Way Forward Touch’, where she works with visually impaired people creating workshops where participants explore sculptural objects and sound relations together.

TOUCH

Emilie Gregersen, Karis Zidore, Naya Moll

10 February 2020 - 22 February 2020

TOUCH by Emilie Gregersen is a choreographic work navigating through touch and its sensuous distortions. In the quivering between the heartfelt and the mechanical, an absurdity and ironic drama arises where human perceptions of touch are being distorted in a metallic universe. TOUCH is created in collaboration with sound artist, Karis Zidore and dramaturge/choreographic consultant Naya Moll.

The Tactilist

Mariella Louise Otto, Daniel Wade

30 January 2020 - 2 February 2020

‘The Tactilist’ explores fragments of the manifesto ‘Tactilism’ written by futurist and fascist, F. T. Marinetti, in 1921. In this new video work to be recorded by Mariella Louise Otto, (in collaboration with Daniel Wade), the protagonist is giving a speech or reading while also re-enacting movements used in massage, although here on an imaginary body – merging a deconstruction of the manifesto with something close to choreography.

Oracle

Justine Maxelon, Caroline Daish, Michel Yang

3 February 2020 - 10 February 2020

Black Bird

Maria Naidu

2 January 2020 - 7 January 2020

In early January, Maria Naidu will return to the IAC to continue working on her solo dance performance which is inspired by the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, his book Karasu (Corps), its basic thematic and the raven (species). The work revolves around Fukase’s central themes: isolation and tragedy at different levels of depth and abstraction. A spectacular yet fateful collage that mixes dance art, movement, projected images and filmed sequences, silent sounds, drone and deafening lamentations in a cinematic way. It should hurt in the same way as when massaging a bruise.

Intonal Residency

Sebastian Mullaert, Nathan Larson, Subchamber Ensemble

20 January 2020 - 15 March 2020

The project is primarily a collaboration between the electronic musician Sebastian Mullaert, Inkonst and Malmö Live concert hall. With a world premiere at Intonal 2020 at Malmö Live, the project, which lasts over 1.5 years, wants to develop new methods for the combination of electronic dance music and classical music. The first part of the project is concerned with building the right ensemble, the second part is dedicated to the creative process and the last part aims at the completion, promotion and premiere of the work.

CANCELLED

Midori Takada, Sebastian Mullaert and Subchamber Ensmble, SØS Gunver Ryberg, John T. Gast, Ian William Craig, Tomaga, Selvhenter, Oli XL, TSVI, Nkisi, Vanessa Amara, OKO DJ, Kajsa Lindgren, and many many more

23 April 2020 - 26 April 2020

Blackout

Tim Bishop

28 January 2020 - 28 January 2020

Blackout is a unique, immersive, new performance work for one person at a time by artist Tim Bishop. The work takes place in complete darkness and uses spatial audio and haptic feedback to create a multi-sensory and evocative environment for a powerfully self-reflective experience. A voice and physical guide encourage participants on an introspective journey without visual stimuli. The work uses sound, touch and interaction to engage with perceptions of physical and virtual contexts, and to reflect on each participant's own unique presence in the universe.

Vem Kan Bli Producent

Sabina Husberg Götlind, Lotta Fahlén

25 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

A full weekend of workshops, songwriting and production sessions, and knowledge sharing. Addressed to people who are actively engaged in sound and music production. Only for women and transgender people (all genders, binary and non-binary). The recommended age is 20 years and up. The project Vem Kan Bli Producent is centered around creating a community for women and transgender people of all genders involved or interested in sound tech and music production.

Breathtaking

Tian Rotteveel

7 January 2020 - 21 January 2020

‘Breathtaking’ explores an erratic wondering music-making body. Following a performer's private relation to all that makes sound. Finding specific sounding materiality along the way and organizing its frequencies and distribute it into a room, creating a listening effect. Whether breath, gesture, voice, or any sound-making resources, everything what feels useful to the performer to create sonic happenings in the room, but as well to understand what the next thing is to do.