New festival for Performance Art in Uppsala - REVOLVE Performance Art Days 6 - 14 May

Uppsala has a history of performance art festivals, like Friktioner and TUPP. This tradition is followed up by REVOLVE Performance Art Days, a festival that appears in a variety of spaces and settings in Uppsala during 6 - 14 of May. The festival is initiated and organised by Köttinspektionen Dans, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, and in collaboration with Royal College of Art and Gustaf Broms.

The organising partners of Revolve have curated separate parts of the programme without a shared theme or direction. Instead the focus has been to promote a richness of performative expressions and artistic strategies that are able to challenge, enhance or contradict each other. A curatorial strategy that allows for conflicting audience experiences, more likely to produce a short-circuit than harmony. The different disciplines of visual art, dance and music, can be mutually affected by one another and the festival emphasizes the productive exchange that is currently taking place within the field.

Köttinspektionen Dans present artists that employ different artistic strategies to deal with questions of power and use the situation of the performance and meeting the audience as a site to reveal, reject, or overthrow current hierarchies of power or conventions. These performances problematize where the piece starts and finishes, and the audience is given space to make up a big part of the event, both in the moment of performance and afterwards, reflecting back. These are the artists showing work at Köttinspektionen: Marie Gavois & Michel Klöfkorn, May Woodhouse, Cecilia Germain, Moa Franzén, Maria Stiernborg & Kajsa Wadhia and Tove Salmgren.

The programme at Uppsala Art Museum stretches from experiences of colour in magnificent visual formations, to strictly conceptual investigations of linguistic ideas. The Israeli artist Tamar Ettun participates in the festival with a separate exhibition The Yellow Who Wants and a performance in The Botanical Garden with the group ”The Moving Company”, previously shown in Bryant Park in New York. Other participants are Saskia Holmkvist, Liv Strand & Marcus Doverud and the Swiss artist Martin Chramosta. Gustaf Broms & Nigel Rolfe, two internationally established names within the field of performance, also take part as teachers and organisers of Performance Pathways, students from Royal College of Art. On Saturday there is a seminar with Emily Roysdon, professor at Konstfack. With Klara Lewis the Art Museum wants to highlight a young talent from Uppsala, currently making an international break-through, with Up, a sound art piece in the stairways of the museum.

Uppsala Konsert & Kongress contibutes to the festival with a concert by the Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda, with gigs at MoMA, Metropolitan Museum in New York and Haus für Elektronische Kunst in Basel in his merits, as well as the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN. In the piece datamatics [ver2.0] Ikeda uses pure data as the raw material and source of both sound and image. He is a master at combining sound and image into an audiovisual whole, making his gigs more than just concerts – they are audiovisual performances. During the festival there is also a screening programme showing performance videos at UKK.

Artists
Gustaf Broms & Nigel Rolfe (SE, UK)
Martin Chramosta (CH) 
The Disengaged Free Jazz Orchestra - Kajsa Wadhia & Maria Stiernborg (SE)
Tamar Ettun (US/IL) and The Moving Company with guests, (US, SE)
Moa Franzén (SE)
Marie Gavois & Michel Klöfkorn (SE, DE)
Cecilia Germain (SE)
Saskia Holmkvist (SE/NO) Ryoji Ikeda (JPN) Klara Lewis (SE) Performance Pathway, students from Royal College of Art (UK) Tove Salmgren (SE) Liv Strand & Marcus Doverud (SE) May Woodhouse (Samonzora)


This festival has been made possible by the generous support of the Uppsala Municipality Cultural Committee, Culture and Education County Council of Uppsala, Artis Grant program, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and Sensus. In collaboration with Iaspis - the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International programme for visual artitsts. Gratitude to the volunteers from Katedralskolan and GUC Uppsala.

Information

Information and programme: uppsalakonstmuseum.se/revolve
Köttinspektionen Dans http://kottinspektionen-dans.se
Uppsala Konsert & Kongress:http://www.ukk.se/konserter/kalendarium/2016/ryoji-ikeda-6-maj/

Patric Kiraly, Producer, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, +46(0)18 727 90 32, +46(0)76 111 38 42,patric.kiraly@ukk.se
Kajsa Wadhia, Köttinspektionen Dans, +46(0)76-273 15 86, kajsawadhia@gmail.com
Tove Salmgren, Köttinspektionen Dans, +46(0)707919844, tovesalmgren@gmail.com
Gustaf Broms, Artist, gustafbroms@hotmail.com
Rebecka Wigh Abrahamsson, Curator, Uppsala konstmuseum/Uppsala Art Museum, +46(0)18-727 24 84,
rebecka.wigh-abrahamsson@uppsala.se