About Revolve Dreams and Dissent
Revolve Performance Art Days is an annual festival for performance art. In 2026, the festival will be held on May 22-23 at several locations around Uppsala.
Amanda Apetrea & Benjamin Quigley / gergő d. farkas / Roxy Farhat / Ailin Mirlashari / Netti Nüganen / Iris Smeds
Revolve Dreams and Dissent departs from performance as a site where dreaming and resistance coexist—not as opposites, but as interdependent practices. Through choreography, visual art, storytelling and embodied encounters, the performances unveil shifted realities where the absurd, the sensuous and the humorous coexist with vulnerability and sustained presence.
In works by Amanda Apetrea & Benjamin Quigley, Gergő d. Farkas, Roxy Farhat, Ailin Mirlashari, Netti Nüganen and Iris Smeds, different modes of world-building activate bodies as sites of transformation, allow narratives to crack open and bend time in unfamiliar directions. Dreaming is understood not as escapism, but as a political capacity—a site for renegotiation, mourning, desire, imagination, critical resistance and radical hope. The programme invites multiple modes of presence: as observer, participant or compassionate witness, making space for dreams, doubts and disagreements.
Revolve Dreams and Dissent is a collaboration between Köttinspektionen Dans and Uppsala Art Museum and part of a long-term engagement with performance as a living space for experimentation, collective dreaming and artistic risk-taking.
In collaboration with Dansutveckling, Uppsala Region and Uppsala Municipality X Kulturlyftet.
With the support of the Arts Council of Sweden.