Program May 23
Ailin Mirlashari – The Sun Never Says to Earth, I Owe You
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Location: The performance starts at Västgötaspången and closes at Uppsala Art Museum.
About the performance
In The Sun Never Says to Earth, I Owe You two healers endeavour to communicate with Sufi poets of a past millennia with the aid of a parabola, aiming to find answers to burning questions of our own time. The piece moves between ritual, absurdity, speculation and collective longing, and was first performed at Liljevalchs Gallery in Stockholm. During Revolve, the artist Ailin Mirlashari continues her research on how milieu and voices from the past can be activated in the present.
Roxy Farhat – Talk and workshop
Time: 14.30 – 16.00
Location: Uppsala Art Museum, Floor 1
Language: English
Price: 20 kr including service charges
About the performance
What role do art and culture play in a time marked by climate collapse and the dismantling of democracy? Fiction is full of stories of popular uprisings, while reality shines in various shades of apathy. What is a reasonable response to the sixth mass extinction, to a live-streamed genocide, to the rise of fascism?
Welcome to a lecture, followed by a brief workshop with the artist and activist Roxy Farhat. Together we will listen, think, write and discuss difficult questions of our time with the aim of finding a more courageous and radical position. The program is part of a longer artistic and practical investigation of how a radical art practice can take shape, and how we can all become more involved in creating a different reality.
Amanda Apetrea och Benjamin Quigley –Danceramics
Time: 15.30 – 19.00
Location: Uppsala Art Museum, Floor 1
Recommended age 18 and up!
About the performance
DANCERAMICS takes its point of departure from the idea of the future as something malleable—like clay. In this work, Apetrea and Quigley have repeatedly asked themselves why we humans continue to shape the same unbalanced form over and over. Which norms and power structures do we reshape with our bodies? And how demanding and uncomfortable is it to break with these internalized patterns?
DANCERAMICS is grounded in the insight that heterosexual desire is difficult to separate from heteronormative structures, and that the heterosexual duet carries a long history of romanticized coupledom, violence, and oppression. The artists’ own bodies function both as sculptural material and as a projection surface, allowing the viewer to reflect on their own position within the complex web of power we call culture. Can desire, bodies, and power be renegotiated, or are we doomed to remain stuck in a loop?
DANCERAMICS is a durational performance lasting 3.5 hours—drop in whenever you like, come and go as you please, or stay and endure with us!
By and with: Amanda Apetrea and Benjamin Quigley
Mask and costume design: Daniel Åkerström-Steen
Technician: Erik Valentin Berg
Graphic design: Anna Hedström
Producer: Sara Bergsmark (Johnson & Bergsmark)
Administration: Interim Kultur
Supported by: The Swedish Arts Council, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Thanks to: Katya Lukoshkova, Carl-Michael Edenborg, Gustav Löwenhielm, Studio 703, Nyxxx, Martin
Vogel, Maud Karlsson Lima de Faria, Martin Lima de Faria, A Quinta das Artes, Butiken i Hörken, and MDT
Iris Smeds – Dead Hand's Stew – a play about breeding
Time: 17.30 – 18.00
Location: Uppsala art museum
Language: English
Tickets: Reserve a seat
Price: 50 kr including service charges
About the performance
Iris Smed's text-driven and surrealistic works are characterised by a dark, absurd humour. Dead Hand's Stew – a play about breeding takes its starting point in the new film The Little House in the Food Court, in which a theatre group rehearses an adaptation of Little House on the Prairie. The performance work revolves around repetition and reproduction, rabbits and hands. In a linguistic inbreeding, physicalities become entangled and shifts in meaning arise. Dead Hand's Stew was originally created for the Institute's performance festival in Vitsaniemi in 2025.
Netti Nüganen – Ash, horizon, riding a house
Time: 20.00 – 21.30
Tickets: Reserve a seat
Price: 50 kr including service charges.
Language: English
About the performance
In a world where land, language and folklore have become commodities, the only place you're welcome back is outside - where greenery is no longer the primary reference. Instead, uneven floorboards, illusion mirrors and trickster steps form profitable landscapes.
Nüganen, Kisling and Sova, as a reaction, open up their ice-manufacturing enterprise. In the backdrop of nightmares and constant dripping they navigate between multiple perspectives on locality, accompanied by CDJs and a banjo. At Earth magnitude they are specks of dust, and next to geological time as-if on speed. They trace locality from places where the influence of one dominant culture has made imported goods part of folklore, while the word 'local' still adds value when making choices as a tourist.
"Ash, horizon, riding a house" is a series of chain-reactions that invites the audience to envision a belonging - one that cannot be seen from here. It must be imagined.
Concept, choreography: Netti Nüganen
Performance: Netti Nüganen, Pire Sova, Michaela Kisling
Sound design: Michaela Kisling
Scenography, costume: Pire Sova
Light design: Klimentina Li
Text: Netti Nüganen
Dramaturgical support: Bouchra Lamsyeh
House costume: Zody Burke
Ice moulds: Madlen Hirtentreu
Production management: Partner in crime, Kaie Küünal
Photos: Ive Trojanović
Thank you to: Valentin Alfery, Gibrana Cervantes, TURBO residency Impulstanz, ERROR residency CDMX, Arvo Pärt Centre
A production by Netti Nüganen in co-production with Tanzquartier Wien and Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn.
Supported by: the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Valmiera Summer Theatre Festival
Premiere: 2.05.2025, Vienna