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 Theology, Ecology 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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👉🏻 Click here for detailed program descriptions
November 28 (Thursday) evening
18.30-21.00 - opening ceremony at SKH Dans
🌳 Murmurs of Gauze (A 1000 fanfares) with Roberto N Peyre
👄 Words of Welcome with the symposium team
🤖 Mobilized with Gabriel Widing
November 29 (Friday) daytime
13.00-18.00 - daytime gatherings I. at SKH Dans
🦴 Around the Vultures with Catalina Insignares
🔥 Think, Dream, Create, Pray Beyond the Ordinary with EHS CTEC
✳️ Gathering Session I. with presenters and symposium team
November 29 (Friday) evening
19.30-22.30 - at The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfrid
🌰 Julian of Norwich reading night with Judith Kiros
🥁 music by Siri Anna Flensburg and Áron Birtalan
November 30 (Saturday) daytime
10.30-18.00 - daytime gatherings II. at SKH Dans
👼 The Choir of Not Knowing with Francis Patrick Brady
🪱 Becoming Earth with Tuva Hildebrand
🌪️ How to Disappear with Mariam Elnozahy
✳️ Gathering Session II. with presenters and symposium team
November 30 (Saturday) evening
21.00-late - closing party at STUDIO NYXXX
💃 😎 closing party 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 and Accessibility
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
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Accessibility: SKH Dans, The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfried are fully accessible. STUDIO NYXXX is accessible with wheelchair, but toilet facilities are not.
> UPDATE: contrary to what we previously wrote, Filmhuset’s studios are not accessible by wheelchair.
Sensory enviroment: With an experimental symposium, it’s good to expect different sensory enviroments outside the usual. We have an open-door policy, meaning you can always take a step back or exit a session if you choose to.
𓁔Attending with children: At large, our program is tailored for a focused and sensitive time, and may not be able to accomodate people coming with babies or young children. With that said, we are working to make our events more inclusive. Please email us and we can look into which program items are suitable to attend w kids.
> Credits, Contacts, Code of Conduct
Symposium team: Áron Birtalan, Gabriel Widing and Dafne Giannikopoulou
Support from: Institue of Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts
{ the symposium on the SKH website }
Thank you: Rev. Nick Howe of The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfrid
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.
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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