GATHERINGS TO DISAPPEAR
a 3-day symposium for performative practices,
lived spirituality and unruly thought
28-30 November, 2024 - Stockholm, Sweden
𓀤 Stockholm University of the Arts, Institute for Dane (SKH Dans)
𓁥 Church of St Peter and St Sigfrid
𓀡 Studio NYXXX
We are excited to announce Gatherings to Disappear, a 3-day symposium for performative practices, lived spirituality and unruly thought. Bringing together voices from choreography, performance, religion and mutant academia we are looking fwd to times of swarming, crumbling, melting, choiring, blooming anew.
with: Camille Barton ⚬ Catalina Insignares ⚬ EHS Center for Ecology, Theology and Culture ⚬ Francis Patrick Brady ⚬ FutureBrownSpace ⚬ Judith Kiros and Julian of Norwich ⚬ Mariam Elnozahy ⚬ Roberto N Peyre ⚬ Tuva Hildebrand ⚬ more to be announced
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> Timeline
detailed program descriptions coming soon
November 28 (Thursday)
18.30-21.00 - opening night at SKH Dans
with Roberto N Peyre and FutureBrownSpace
November 29 (Friday)
13.00-18.00 - daytime gatherings I. at SKH Dans
with Catalina Insignares; Center for Theology, Ecology and Culture
19.30-22.30 - Julian of Norwich reading night at The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfried
with Judith Kiros and Áron Birtalan
November 30 (Saturday)
10.30-18.00 - daytime gatherings II. at SKH Dans
with Francis Patrick Brady; Tuva Hildebrand; Mariam Elnozahy
22.30-late - closing party at STUDIO NYXXX
artists TBA
+ extra events
October 24-25 (Thursday-Friday)
17.30-20.00 / 13.00-16.00 at SKH Dans
To Leap With Abandon - Áron Birtalan‘s 80% PhD seminar
in conversation with Jonna Bornermark
>>> sign up for this event separately here!
November 27 (Wednesday)
13.00-16.00 - Season of Black Study at Filmhuset Research Studios
with Camille Barton in conversation with Catalina Insignares
>>> sign up for this event separately here!
> Invocation
The theme Gatherings to Disappear calls forth the dissolving power of coming together and the practices that host it. Togetherness and closeness render bodies permeable and thoughts contaminated. Voluntary or involuntary may the occasion be, gatherings are a place of unknowing, of unreliability, of possibility. Because of this, gatherings hold both persistent questions and answers precisely in their contamination and unruly multitude – and pose a very real threat to the myth of the individual, the sovereign. A less than the sum of our parts.
Likewise, with an emphasis on religious and spiritual practices, we want to highlight how, akin to artistic practice, modes of inter-subjectivity from religion and spirituality can be a critical sensitivity to reckon with, and not just the object of criticism or a mystified opposition to intellectuality.
We will become choirs singing songs unheard and unknown; extend our hands into the matrix of the dead; communally read the words of a medieval body raptured in ecstasy; feel the breath of past gatherings on the back of our necks; explore ceremonies to cleanse and infect; dance, sweat, drift, repeat.
> Locations
𓀤 Stockholm University of the Arts, Institute for Dane (SKH Dans) - Brinellvägen 58
𓁥 Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfrid - Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14
𓀡 Studio NYXXX - Ljusnevägen 3A
𓁲 Filmhuset Research Studios - Borgvägen 1
𓂽 symposium map
> Credits and Accessibility
Symposium team: Áron Birtalan, Gabriel Widing and Dafne Giannikopoulou
Support from: Stockholm University of the Arts
{ the symposium on the SKH website }
Thank you: Rev. Nick Howe of The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfried
Graphics by: Áron Birtalan and Unicode
Archival photos from: Fortepan Archives - donation of Tamás Urbán
A plain text version of the program, written under the principles of Permacomputing will be published soon. We will also update this section on accessibility, content and sensory environment in a little. In the meantime, feel free to reach out with any questions via the address below.
Code of Conduct: All our programs are hosted in line with the Berlin Code of Conduct
Symposium contact: gatheringstodisappear@gmail.com
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