MATKALLA MAAN KESKIPISTEESEEN An exhibition in three chapters 13.06.20- 25.04.21

Chapter II- The Unbound Story opens 11.09.20 at Keuruu Museum and 19.09.20 at Jyväskylä Art Museum.

Matkalla Maan Keskipisteesen är en utställning fördelad på tre kapitel. Den första delen The village utspelade sig på Galleria Jarska i Juhola, som nu efterföljs av The unbound story i Keuruu och Jyväskylä. The coming home avslutar berättelsen i Saarijärvi.

Det är en tvivelaktig, tragikomisk men också underbar berättelse, som handlar om våra uppbrott, kamper, förvandlingar i livet, och hur vi ständigt brottas med det förflutna. Men den rymmer även en historia om platser, byar, länder och dessutom en förundran inför hur obegripligt sammanflätad planeten och dess liv är.

Matkalla Maan Keskipisteesen on näyttely, joka on jaettu kolmeen osa. Ensimmäinen osa, The Village, järjestettiin Juholan Galleria Jarskassa. Toinen osa, The Unbound Story, tapahtuu Keuruulla ja Jyväskylässä. Kertomuksen päätösosa, The Coming Home, järjestetään Saarijärvellä.

Kyseessä on epävarma, tragikoominen ja ihmeellinen kertomus irtiotoista, kamppailuista, muutoksista ja ihmisen katkeamattomasta painista menneisyyden kanssa. Siihen mahtuu myös tarinoita paikoista, kylistä ja maista sekä ihmetystä planeettamme ja sen elämän käsittämättömästä yhteenkuuluvaisuudesta.

Chapter I – The Village

GALLERIA JARSKA / TAPPERIEN JUHOLA – JUSSI JÄRVINEN 13.6. – 16.8.2020

Chapter II – The Unbound Story

KEURUUN MUSEO – ANNA BINTA DIALLO 12.9. – 21.11.2020
JYVÄSKYLÄN TAIDEMUSEO – DAINA ASHBEE ANNA BINTA DIALLO JUSSI HEIKKILÄ JARI JULA NIINA LEHTONEN BRAUN SONJA LÖFGREN ANNI PUOLAKKA NINA SVENSSON HEINE AVDAL & YUKIKO SHINOZAKI THORA DOLVEN BALKE ANTTI AHONEN & MERI HIETALA KAZUKO KIZAWA PETRA LINDHOLM & ANNA JÄRVINEN ANU PENNANEN & STÉPHANE QUERREC ANDERS SMEBYE & VIKRAM UCHIDA-KHANNA JAAKKO VALO – 19.9.2020– 14.03.2021

Chapter III – The Coming Home

SAARIJÄRVEN MUSEO – DUNCAN BUTT JUVONEN TAIJA GOLDBLATT ANNE LEHTELÄ MAIJA OJANEN ANNA RUTH ANDERS SMEBYE & VIKRAM UCHIDA-KHANNA ILKKA VIRTANEN LAURA DAHLBERG PASI EERIK KARJULA PETRA LINDHOLM JUKKA SILOKUNNAS TOÛA TOÛA LOUISE DAHL & HANA LEE ERDMAN
3.2.–25.4.2021

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Vitt Brus (Mono Tv)

Hangö Teaterträff 2020 moved out on the web, as so many did this spring. Apart from questions around screen- culture, tv- drama and digital presence it opened up for some thoughts on our entangled existence with technology. I wrote a report (in Swedish) for Norsk Shakespearetidsskrift  Nr 2-3 2020

You can download the article here: mono tv hangö teaterträff 2020

 

 

 

 

Rickard Borgström & Rebecca Chentinell.

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Stay with the brackish—

Dear friends, colleagues,

As the year turns, we find ourselves returning to what has carried us: the slow intelligence of fieldwork, the ethics of attention, and the moments when art and science move in the same current, without needing to become the same language.

This autumn, we’re grateful to hold Currents of Kinship close: the gatherings, the conversations, the listening practices, the shared shoreline time. Thank you to partners, artists, researchers, participants, and audiences for stepping into the work with care.

Meanwhile, other routes have continued to unfold. This season, Le Sacre du printemps (Tandvärkstallen), our ongoing collaboration with Zheng Bo, travelled onward, shown at Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, KIM? Gallery Vilnius, and Kiang Malingue’s new gallery space in New York. Each presentation re-situated the work, asking it to breathe differently, and met new publics in new rooms.

Now we open the next threshold: we’re welcoming applications for the Currents of Kinship 2026 residencies, self-directed research periods for artists working with shorelines, fieldwork, and more-than-human attention.

Warmly,
Rickard & Rebecca

Open Call residencies — Currents of Kinship 2026
We’re opening the next passage. As part of DACE’s ongoing research cycle, Currents of Kinship, we invite applications for self-directed residencies within the European network Island Connect.

Currents of Kinship turns toward the sea, testing how fieldwork, embodied attention, and transdisciplinary exchange might reshape how we sense and relate to coastal ecologies. We welcome professional artists across generations and disciplines (performance, choreography, sound, moving image, writing, visual art, hybrid research practices), anyone drawn to working with shorelines as living, shifting conditions.

These residencies are not commissions. There is no obligation to produce a finished work or a public event. We value experimentation, process, and the articulation of questions.

Gotland, Sweden (hosted by DACE)
We invite one artist to a two-week, situated research period on Gotland in April/May 2026. The residency is grounded in fieldwork and habitat-responsive sensorial attention, shore meadows, shallow waters, rocks and sediments, plant and animal life, weather, and human traces, letting local conditions shape the work from within.

Vis, Croatia (hosted by DOMINO)
On the island of Vis (Komiža), this residency offers a Mediterranean counterpoint to our Baltic inquiry, another archipelagic threshold where currents, histories, and human traces shape the conditions for practice. DOMINO (Zagreb) hosts the residency at Spomen dom Komiža, a cultural centre with a fully functional performance hall and additional spaces for meetings, lectures, and workshops. DOMINO’s programmes engage performance and independent culture in relation to socio-political questions and climate change through long-running festivals and platforms, including Sounded Bodies and Queer Zagreb Season.

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The artist will receive a fee of €600 per 2-week residency (€1200 in total) and per diems of €50 (€1400 in total). Accommodation and travel are provided.

This iteration of the residency programme focuses on artists based in France (to Gotland) and Sweden (to Vis).

If these themes resonate with you, whether you work in performing arts, visual arts, or other creative disciplines, we warmly invite you to apply. If you have questions, please contact DACE directly.

DEADLINE: 14 January 2026.
For more information and how to apply press this link

Through the current research cycle Currents of Kinship (from 2025 onward), DACE turns its attention to seas and shorelines, unfolding through fieldwork, habitat-responsive sensorial walks, residencies, and public gatherings around the Baltic Sea region. The cycle brings together artists, marine scientists, curators and local communities to explore how low-trophic species, shifting coastal ecologies, and currents intersect with embodied experience, cultural narratives and environmental shifts. Treating the sea as a collaborator, Currents of Kinship tests how artistic practices can register and respond to ecological change while imagining forms of kinship that extend across species, waters and territories.

Photos: I. Silke Weißbach, 2026 II. Kruno Jošt, 2025 III. Kruno Jošt, 2025 

—where endings don’t conclude, 
they reconfigure

SODA Lectures 2019/20 – What does it take to belong?

On the 13th of November, I have the pleasure to converse with Sandra Noeth at HZT Berlin. More information here

What does it take to cross a border? Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and of collectivity through the perspective of bodies. By dramaturgical analyses of contemporary artistic work from Lebanon and Palestine, she shows how borders and collectivity are constructed and negotiated through performative, corporeal, movement-based, and sensory strategies and processes. The SODA lecture seminar gathers each semester artists and theorists from various disciplines and fields of practice. Bodies, and the aesthetic, socio-political and ethical questions that they open up, are at the core of the public discourse and workshop program that is dedicated to the idea of ‘belonging’ in the 2019/20 winter term: a complex and open idea that addresses material, geopolitical and affective aspects; reminds of familiar routines, gestures and habits, shared norms, values and rights; and formulates questions concerning experiences of safety and trust and the right to societal and political participation.

POST – DANCE – ING Conference

Recently I participated in the conference  POST – DANCE – ING at MDTsthlm, in a panel- discussion with Agnes Quackels responding on Halla Ólafsdóttir´s & Alice Chauchat´s call/response performance- lectures.

It was a moving gathering, that took many turns…out of necessity, sensing, and un/learning….I pay my respect to the women who with the labor of courage and care, hosted complex pressing issues, gave them space, here and now… I am grateful!

The documentation will be online for 30 days. Handle it with care.

MDT, Cullberg, Danscentrum and DOCH would like to welcome you to be a part of our new conference POST-DANCE-ING. We long for a conference with an unconventional format that emphasizes conversation, as well as supports the potentially different languages available to this conversing. A conference with five in-depth conversations that spiral deliberately, intuitively and decidedly into other spaces and configurations, possibly into other forms. So we invited five thinkers to each propose a starting point. And five invited “Conversation Partners” then formulate and prepare a response to these “Starters”. This in-depth conversation is then taken further by a discussion group that is requested to react and discuss on the spot. This conversation then continues for those attendees who wants to, in a circle in another room. Followed by a final step in a room with no protocol, no choreography, simply an open space where the conversation takes its necessary form. If you want to, you follow the same conversation through all these steps. Or you can choose to stay in the first room where the same procedure with Starter, Conversation Partner and discussion group starts over with a new topic and new participants. This plunging into the Alice hole repeats five times and overlaps. Just like in the real world. Post-dance with a twist.

Participants: Rebecca Vinthagen, Reggie Wilson, Jeanine Durning, Eva Mohn, Josefine Wikström, Erdem Gündüz, Konstantina Georgelou, Karina Sarkissova, Eva Meyer-Keller, Mette Edvardsen, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Tamara Alegre, Ilse Ghekiere, Julia Giertz, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Alice Chauchat, Agnes Quackels, Rickard Borgström, André Lepecki & Eleanor Bauer.