Please have a look at an interview with me from Brazil. It includes some reflections on art, society and how technology shapes both. I also dive deep into my latest performances that were shown in Mexico and Brazil. Enjoy!

Per Hüttner will return to the UK for 4 day workshop in London and Oxford October 6-9, 2025. In both cities we will focus on upcoming music and performance events. In London the group will work more with the EEGsynth and prepare for upcoming performances in Europe and the Middle East. In Oxford we will partners that we have not worked with in a long time. The work will eventually lead to a one day event at the Belsyre Garage in centre of the academic town. During the event performers from the Nordic countries and the UK show their work together. The project’s artists are held together by a shared interest in how artistic expressions can contribute to deeper insights into how digital technology is shaping our daily life. Two questions become more pertinent every day: What are the possibilities? What are the dangers?

IKFKOS will carry out a workshop on a burial mound outside Krokvik, close to Kiruna in northern Sweden August 13-18, 2025. The work will focus on examining mankind’s connection to nature: to nature that is pulsating inside us and to nature which is sprawling and sprouting around us. Special attention will be paid to reflections about how contemporary Western civilisation breeds insensitivity to the natural vibrations within us and around us. We will reflect on how we, through rationality, have lost the connection to the outside world which is instead shaped by ideas and ideologies. This world view makes us focus on regrets about the past and the future and takes focus from life here and now. In the workshop we will investigate how, through traditional Sami and Kven knowledge and the arts, can reconnect to life in new and inspiring ways.

The group is made up of representatives from traditional Sami and Kven communities as well as practitioners in theatre, dance, music and visual art. The group will also be joined by an experienced medium. They will organise a public event at 15.00 on August 16. Please drop a line to info [at] visionforum.eu if you want to join the group.

Per Hüttner will perform together with Jonas Engman during the public event.

The project is supported by Kulturbryggan.

Vision Forum is happy that the Swedish-Haitian team, including Per Hüttner, that showed at documenta fifteen will continue to work together. They will be in residence and to work on Ghetto Gucci II (working title) in Stockholm and Gothenburg August 20-22, 2025.

The group, has since spring 2024, been developing a new performance that has been designed to move through different architectural settings. It is divided into four parts where the audience follows the performers on a journey into the unknown and where each scene elaborates on differences and similarities between European and Haitian culture. In the performance, the group presents a number of tableaux vivants where costumes, props, light, sound and movement form an emotive whole. For the piece, the group has also created new digital technology in dialogue with Dutch neuroscientist Robert Oostenveld that enables the group to use microbes to generate sound and moving images in real time and integrate kinetic sculpture into the performance.

For the piece the group focuses on one of the most well-known Haitian cultural traits, the zombie and how it is relevant in today’s politically and socially bankrupt times. The group uses the image of the zombie to investigate how different cultures take in the zombie, how it is reshaped by each culture and through that revealing its inherent values. The work also reveals  how forms of malicious (and benevolent?) forms of control can be carried out and through that reflecting on free will, the history of slavery in the Caribbean and the new world.

The project is supported by Kulturbryggan in Stockholm.

Ikfkos is a joint project between the organisations Vision Forum and Teatermaskinen. It is an independent organisation that is set up to support culture and language of Sami and Kven people. Special focus is given to the nåjd (a Sami/Kven shaman). The organisation also actively supports dialogues between different indigenous peoples around the world.

Jonas Engman who has worked in Sami shamanic traditions all his adult life will lead a workshop at a kåta in Bergslagen, Sweden June 14-17, 2025. During the workshop the group will focus on how contemporary sound and music can be incorporated into traditional Sami and Kven traditions and ceremonies, as well as how contemporary stage performers can learn from Sami and Kven practices. In the process the team (which include practitioners from theatre, dance, music and visual art) will use new technology that measure the bodily processes of the participants as well as the movements of the surrounding nature. Per Huttner will make music for the group.

The workshop will be held in a traditional Sami Kåta. The workshop will include public performance in on June 15 and offers a unique opportunity to experience traditional animism in dialogue with cutting edge performative expressions. If you want to experience the performance, please write us on info [at] visionforum.eu.

The music collective xLEPH returns to La Generale in Paris for their second residency, June 2-9, 2025.

The collective (This time Per Huttner, Ludvig Elblaus and Thomas Auroux) has worked extensively with hypnosis and hypnotherapy in their performances and musical compositions in the last few years. For instance, in their performance at La Generale in 2023, both the audience and performers were under different levels of hypnotically induced trance.

During the residency they will synthesise and develop their work with hypnosis further. The residency will culminate in a radio-show for P-node, 8-9pm on June 9, 2025, entitled Hypno-collage. The radio show is a collective hypnotic journey. It brings together memories and traces of various artistic investigations where hypnosis has been used as well as snippets from preparatory hypnosic session. These are coupled with new music, new interviews along with real-time dialogues in the studio.

The hypnotic radio journey, is an artistic collage for anyone who is interested in music, art or the boundaries of the human mind and its perception of the world. The conversations will mostly be in French interspersed with shorter interludes in English. You can listen to it here. (https://p-node.org/residencies/xleph)

The residency is co-organised together with the EEGsynth association in Paris.

The Liminal, a new performance by Carima Neusser will be shown at Weld in Stockholm May 23-25 2025. Per Hüttner has composed music for the piece. The Liminal team with members from Sweden, Ireland, Finland, France, Portugal and Åland will be in residence at Höjden, Weld and Återträffen in May and June  2025 in the Swedish capital to prepare and evaluate the event. Huttner will participate in the two first two residences.

The Liminal is a mobile laboratory that moves between different European urban locations. The work is a collective investigation, where the team is actively involved in shaping the results. The final performance will be first shown in Stockholm and we hope that it will tour in Europe soon. The project is supported by The Nordic Culture Fund, Svenska kulturfonden and Kulturbryggan.

Vision Forum is organising an 5 day workshop in Tunis and Bizerte in Tunisia April 9-13, 2025. During the workshop the team will develop the project “Do Trees Dream of CO2” with their Tunisian partners.

“In our working process we focus primarily on trees’ and their inner signalling. We use the PepiPIAF technology to measure changes in their inner. This non-invasive technology is attached to a branch of a tree. It measures the changes in pressure and temperature inside the actual tree, based on how sap moves. It shows how a tree adapts itself to changes of temperature, season, and daily rhythm. From these measurements we can derive information about how the tree grows and to a certain degree how it adapts to outside changes. You can find more info about the PepiPIAF here. (In French only.) We also record the sounds that the tree makes as it grows using specially designed microphones. These sounds are then modulated by the data from the tree and by human digital musical tools.”

During the workshop the Franco-Swedish, Per Hüttner and Karine Bonneval team will work will artists Soufia Bensaid and Hela Lamine. A public presentation will be held outside Bizerte on April 12. The program starts at 14h. Please drop us an e-mail (info [at] visionforum.eu) if you want to join. Participation is free, but the number of places limited.

Do Trees Dream of CO2 is supported by Kulturbryggan

The team working with the simple and complex in art and microbes travel to Stockholm March 14-16 2025. They will hold workshops at Hallwylska museet in the centre of the city.

Microbes offer an interesting way into complexity. Their small size and the fact that they are everywhere connects them to other complex systems and their influence cannot be understated. Without microbes there would be no life on this planet, and small changes can have profound consequences for other interconnected complex systems. Per Hüttner is developing anew performance with Robert Oostenveld where microbes will influence the sound and image output.

The world is full of unknown unknowns and to help us sort all of this out and extend our knowledge increasingly complex computer programs are being used.  But there is a problem with this. As computer models or simulations become increasingly complex they also become harder to understand. This is referred to as Bonini’s paradox.

French poet Paul Valéry wrote: “If it’s simple, it’s always false. If it’s not, it’s unusable.” It is important to be able to simplify ideas without losing the complexities underpinning them, but how do we do that?

The outcome of the project will be presented at Hallwylska museet on November 4-8, 2025 and is supported by Kulturbryggan and The Nordic Culture Fund.

Energy in Balance

Two international, artistic networks, the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT) and Vision Forum are creating a three-day event in and for Copenhagen in collaboration with Danish curator Laura Goldschmidt.

“Energy in Balance” looks for new perspectives on the human body by bringing together knowledge from the arts, philosophy, science and kinesiology. The working group aims to use the acquired knowledge to develop new and visionary works of art.

The working process will focus on the human body and how it hosts

knowledge outside of consciousness, the cerebral and the rational. Such knowledge is seen as an ideal in movements such as Zen Buddhism. Relevant questions for discussions in the project include:

- The human body knows perfectly well how to operate its immune system. How is this possible, although science knows only a fraction how it works?
- How can an unborn baby know how to create its own body?
- How can we access such knowledge and what traditions can help us in the process?
- When we speak of intuition, is that an intellectual of bodily process?
- How does the body’s knowledge, as discussed above, play a role in art-making and the creative process?

The goal of the event is for the organizers to learn together with artists, curators, health-workers and the general public in the Danish capital.

The goal  is not to find conclusive answers to such questions, but to reflect on how a slightly altered perspective on human (and non-human) knowledge can be of use in art-making and in healing. The organisers want to collectively understand how we can think differently about our bodies and how such a change in perspective might affect our lives.

PROGRAM (TBC)

Monday, February 24, afternoon and evening:

Mid-day: Arrival at Q-Space
Contributing/participating: Annemarie, Laura, Per, Dafna, Mia, Carima, Olav
Internal symposium to present/demonstrate our work/research and formulate shared questions.
Time to experiment.

Dinner

Tuesday, February 25, 10:00 to 16:00:

(Program, open to students, faculty at Q-Space)
10:00 Per: Short presentation of Vision Forum and Governing Bodies (45 min)
11:00 Dafna: Interactive Bodymind workshop (90 min)
12:30 Lunch break
13 :30 Annemarie: Presentation on Kinesiology, interactive exercises (90 min)
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Mia: Lecture “How to eat artistically” (60 min)
16:30 Olav: Presentation on APT and playtime using either sound or drawing (60 min)

Dinner

Wednesday, February 26, 15:00 to late:

(open to public)
15:00 Laura: Welcome and curatorial thoughts on the symposium, topic and format (15 min)
15:30 Dafna: Video screening, new work, dramatizing a body centering exercise, conversation (45 min)
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Annemarie: The Behavioral Barometer Presentation/demonstration (60 min)

Coffee/Snacks/socializing (time for set-up)

18:30: Olav: Quintett, digestive sound performance (30 min)
19:30: Per and Robert: Performance (30 min)

Socializing and open end

Per Huttner will present a performance entitled “Two Rooms and What?” that encompasses music and moving images. The performance will take place at Fronda in Etla, in the state of Oaxaca. For the performance Huttner works with the EEGsynth (www.eegsynth.org) which is a hard and software platform that uses electroencephalogram (EEG) to allow performers to create sounds and images based on signals from the human brain in real time. He will therefore invite a local artist to join him in the performance. The second performer will wear an EEG cap on stage. The moving images that will be presented will be filmed during his stay in Mexico, allowing him to reflect on Mexican culture and aesthetics.The images will be also be influenced by the second performer.

The performance starts at 8pm, February 8, 2025. Doors open at 7pm and entrance is free. Address: Fronda, 56VC+5R, 68203 Santo Domingo Barrio Alto, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Per Huttner will be in Mexico in winter 2024-25. He will be working with two projects: Ghetto Gucci II and Microbes in the Desert of the Real.  The team will spend most of the time in Mexico City, but will also make excursions to the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca. Work will focus on developing work for the upcoming presentations in Sweden and in France.

The Microbes in the Desert of the Real phrase their research question like this:

• Microbes offer an interesting way into complexity. Their small size and the fact that they are everywhere connects them to other complex systems and their influence cannot be understated. Without microbes there would be no life on this planet, and small changes can have profound consequences for other interconnected complex systems. The world is full of unknown unknowns and to help us sort all of this out and extend our knowledge increasingly complex computer programs are being used.  But there is a problem with this. As computer models or simulations become increasingly complex they also become harder to understand. This is referred to as Bonini’s paradox.

The are preparing a large presentation at the amazing Hallwylska museet in central Stockholm.

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The Ghetto Gucci II team formulate their research in the following way:

• For humanity, death constitutes the ultimate expression of the unknown. No human knows, and no one can know what happens when we die. In this project, a group of Swedish and Haitian artists together focus on how death is seen in Haiti. In the voodoo cosmology, death is viewed in a completely different way, than in our Western ontology. The Haitians believe that everything in the world is spirited. They also believe that death is not the end, but a transformation into another dimension. In the project, we allow the audience to reflect on death, but also to face death seen through an unknown Haitian perspective.

New performances will be presented at Fronda in Etla, Casa Bestia in Oaxaca City and at Humboltd123 in Mexico City’s Down town.

More info about the public events will follow soon.

A Vision Forum team of artists, thinkers and researchers who work on a publication on performance called “Performance Enigma” will meet in Stockholm December 2-5. The book is in the final stages of production and will be printed in late 2024 and available in bookshops in early 2025. The book is edited by Freddie Ross and focuses on Per Huttner’s performances 1989 – 2024.

Performance Enigma is supported by Längmanska kulturfonden.

The  team of artists and researchers, including Per Huttner, who work on “Microbes in The Desert of The Real – The Simple and The Complex” will in Stockholm December 2-4 to develop work for their public presentation at Hallwylska museet. The interdisciplinary events at the historical museum in central Stockholm will be held in November 2025. For their research they have formulated the following:

The world is full of unknown unknowns and to help us sort all of this out and extend our knowledge increasingly complex computer programs are being used.  But there is a problem with this. As computer models or simulations become increasingly complex they also become harder to understand. This is referred to as Bonini’s paradox.

French poet Paul Valéry wrote: “If it’s simple, it’s always false. If it’s not, it’s unusable.” It is important to be able to simplify ideas without losing the complexities underpinning them, but how do we do that?

The group organises workshops and public events around Europe since 2023 and participate in other Vision Forum projects like Perplexity: Meetings in Art and Science. The public presentations in Sweden and Belgium both include artistic performances that takes its inspiration from microbes and scientific research talks that relate to the subject matter.

Vision Forum is happy that the Swedish-Haitian team that showed Ghetto Gucci at documenta fifteen will continue to work together. They were originally meant to travel to Port-au Prince to develop new work. However, due to the unrest on the western part of the island, they were advised against travelling to Haiti. They will therefore travel to Guadeloupe October 12-28, 2024 to be in residence and to work on Ghetto Gucci II (working title.)

The group, has since spring 2024, been developing a new performance that has been designed to move through different architectural settings. It is divided into four parts where the audience follows the performers on a journey into the unknown and where each scene elaborates on differences and similarities between European and Haitian culture.

For the piece the group focuses on one of the most well-known Haitian cultural traits, the zombie. The group uses the image of the zombie to investigate how different cultures take in the zombie, how it is reshaped by each culture and through that revealing its inherent values. The work also reveals  how forms of malicious (and benevolent?) forms of control can be carried out and through that reflecting on free will, the history of slavery in the Caribbean and the new world.

In the performance, the group presents a number of tableaux vivant where costumes, props, light, sound and movement form an emotive whole. For the piece, the group has also created new digital technology in dialogue with Dutch neuroscientist Robert Oostenveld that enables the group to use microbes to generate sound and moving images in real time and integrate kinetic sculpture into the performance.

The project is produced by Vision Forum (www.visionforum.eu) and supported by Kulturbryggan in Stockholm.

As an experimental duo, Alpha Xiao has been active in the musical exploration of mental and musical space since 2020. They often collaborate with other musicians and artists in different constellations. They participated in “An Infinite Love” at Konstnärshuset in 2021, performed at Teater Reflex and performed with Olav Westphalen at Hökarängens antikvariat and with Sebastian Campbell at Teatertribunalen. Alpha Xiao also created the music for Fabien Guillermont and Toan Van Che’s feature documentary “Reality Check” in 2024. They are currently developing EEG-altered visuals for their concerts.

The set-up consists of a portable electroencephalagraph (EEG) modulating designed audio samples in real time (Per Hüttner) combined with a traditional Chinese flute called Xiao (William Stafford). The music produced leaves room for the indefinite through sketches of compositions, sounds and themes. As brain waves influence certain dynamics of sound, and vice versa, a feedback loop is generated between brain activities and the sound thus produced ad infinitum.

Per Huttner will perform new work with the title “Near to the Wild Heart.” For his performance in Portugal in 2019 he created, together with Randolph Albright and Carima Neusser a piece called “Aqua Viva” which took its inspiration from the Novel of the same name by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Since Albright and his long term collaborator Sixten Kai Nielsen are revamping 3 Rabbits and are also involved in the creationg of a new cultural centre close to Obigos, Huttner decided to name the performance after Lispector’s first novel which is a timeless tour de force. The performance becomes an incantation to rebirth and even hope for the future.

The performance is made up of three new musical compositions and new visuals. One was created during the Ghetto Gucci residency in Guadeloupe and the other two have been developed by Huttner in 2024. Huttner will be in residency at 3 Rabbits October 31 – November 7. The performance starts at 8pm, Sunday November 3. Entrance is free.

In spring 2019 Vision Forum organised a 4-day festival in Stockholm called Transformation. It investigated how naturally occurring nerve signals from muscle and brain can be used in musical composition and performance production. During the festival composers, musicians, technology developers and researchers met to investigate the aesthetic potential of biofeedback in music. The events and meetings led to a rich surge of reflections, development of new ideas, new research topics, new technological development, new collaborations and new artistic projects.The event was greatly appreciated by audience, participants and the media. During lockdown in spring 2020, Vision Forum organised the online festival Transformation II in collaboration with French online radio P-node. A third festival took place in France in spring 2024. It brought together artists from multiple fields, researchers primarily from neuroscience and technology developers from many field. Participants come from Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Japan.

Thanks to the success of the festival, for the week September 15 – 22, Swedish and French musicians will be working together with the EEGsynth technology at La Generale in Paris. Focus will be on harmonizing work with the Unicorn headset and to develop new performances. A public presentation with new performances will be heald at Chair de poule, rue St. Maur, 75011 on September 27, starting at 8pm.

The team working with the simple and complex in art and microbes travel to Amsterdam August 27-30, 2024. They will develop their work by visiting Micropia which is a museum dedicated to the microbes that surround humans virtually everywhere and also reflect on the simple and complex in art.

Microbes offer an interesting way into complexity. Their small size and the fact that they are everywhere connects them to other complex systems and their influence cannot be understated. Without microbes there would be no life on this planet, and small changes can have profound consequences for other interconnected complex systems.

The world is full of unknown unknowns and to help us sort all of this out and extend our knowledge increasingly complex computer programs are being used.  But there is a problem with this. As computer models or simulations become increasingly complex they also become harder to understand. This is referred to as Bonini’s paradox.

French poet Paul Valéry wrote: “If it’s simple, it’s always false. If it’s not, it’s unusable.” It is important to be able to simplify ideas without losing the complexities underpinning them, but how do we do that?

- Vision Forum announces another Zygote proto-event. This time, we will be at at Palladium in Malmö August 9, 2024

Zygote is project where performance artists, dancers, musicians and researchers in foetal development are working together. Zygote is a mobile laboratory that moves between different Swedish urban and natural locations. The work is a collective investigation, where the audience is actively involved in shaping the results.

For the performance, Per Huttner will create live music.
Zygote is supported by Kulturbryggan.

Performance program 20h, July 19, 2024.

Nour Justinia Hotel, Sousse, Tunisia.
Organiser: Elbirou Art Gallery with AllArtNow and Vision Forum
Curators: Abir Boukhari & Karim Sghaier

In conjunction with the UV biennial Vision Forum will present an evening of performances with Swedish artist Per Huttner and Tunisian artist Amine Melki working together. The project takes place in a centrally located hotel which is in the process of being renovated. The performances will take place outdoors in the hotel’s open yard.

Artists in the project:

Wissem El-Abed (Tunisia), Severin Guelpa (Switzerland), Eleonore Josso (France), Amine Melki (Tunisia), Fredj Moussa (Tunisia/France), Asma Laajimi (Tunisia), Mouna Jemal Siala (Tunisia), Diogo Pereira (Portugal), Mohamed Ben Soltane (Tunisia), Ahlem Chihaoui (Tunisia), Nisrine Boukhari (Syria/Austria), Omar Bey (Tunisia), Mustapha Sedjal (Algeria/France), Selim Ben Cheikh (Tunisia), Shelley Vanderbyl (Canada), Khaled Abedrabbou (Tunisia), Mats Hjelm (Sweden), Najah Zarbout (Tunisia), Carima Neusser (Sweden), Sara A. Tremblay (Canada), Edgar Endress (Chile), Muhammad Ali (Syria/Sweden), Karama Sayadi (Tunisia), Per Huttner (Sweden).

Huttner’s participation in the project is supported by the Swedish Arts Council.

The  team of artists and researchers who work on “Microbes in The Desert of The Real – The Simple and The Complex” will meet in Brussels and Ghent June 19 and 20, 2024 to talk about the relations between the simple and complex.

Here are some words to guide them:

The world is full of unknown unknowns and to help us sort all of this out and extend our knowledge increasingly complex computer programs are being used.  But there is a problem with this. As computer models or simulations become increasingly complex they also become harder to understand. This is referred to as Bonini’s paradox.

French poet Paul Valéry wrote: “If it’s simple, it’s always false. If it’s not, it’s unusable.” It is important to be able to simplify ideas without losing the complexities underpinning them, but how do we do that?

The group organises workshops and public events around Europe since 2023 and participate in other Vision Forum projects like Perplexity: Meetings in Art and Science. The public presentation include both artistic performances that takes its inspiration from microbes and their complexity and scientific talks that relate to the subject matter.

London based composer and musician Tomas Nordmark and Paris based musician and visual artist and musician Per Hüttner have been working together since 2021. Together they develop creative and visionary performances using the technology platform EEGsynth. The EEGsynth is a hard and software platform that allows performers to create sounds and images using neural signals from the human nerves and brain. The technology is unique because it has been has been developed by European artists, musicians in close collaboration with neuroscientists since 2014. In the performances the artists use measurements of a performer’s brain signal on his/her head using an electro encephalogram (EEG) in real time.

You are welcome to join Nordmark and Hüttner for  performance and  demonstrations of the technology. In the performance entitled “One Step Closer to the Abyss” they present music and images that are generated and modulated by a performers brain activity in real time. They work with sounds from a traditional electric guitar which has been modulated the brain to create aesthetically interesting sounds. They also have dynamic visuals that are generated in real time by the brain. The performance takes its inspiration from Mark Fisher’s writings and his reflections on the weird and the eerie: how humans and art deal with the unknown in their everyday and in artistic creation.

The EEGsynth platform has grown and developed fast in recent years. It is used by artists and researchers in Sweden, France, Norway, the Netherlands and in the UK. They use signals from the human brain, but also from trees, fish and microbes to create performances. The team has made over 70 performances and workshops in a number of European countries, Mexico, Egypt, Brazil and the US. There has been a lot of interest both the technology. For instance French film maker Fabien Guillermont has made a full length documentary on the project. Nordmark and Huttner’s tour of Japan and China is the first time that the EEGsynth is presented in Asia and is supported by the Swedish Arts Council.

Jo Kazuhiro, Ruco, Colin Siyuan Chinnery and Zero will be performing with them. They are at:

- Musahino University, Tokyo, May 27 – workshop at 2pm and performance at 5pm.
- University of Kyushu, May 30 – performance at 6pm.
- Permian, Tokyo, May 31 – performance at 8pm.
- Sound Art Museum, Beijing, June 8, 10pm

Welcome to join us for two experimental biofeedback concerts. 20h, May 18, 2024 at Teatermaskinen in Riddarhyttan, Sweden.

Per Huttner and Ludvig Elblaus will present two new compositions. The audience is invited to go on a hypnotic journey while they experience the two concerts.

Entrance is free. Teatermaskinen, Skräppbo Skola, 73091 Riddarhyttan, info@teatermaskinen.com +460706811481

The project forms a part of Transformation III and is co-funded by The Swedish Arts Council.

Vision Forum’s musical collective Xleph will be in residency at Teatermaskinen May 14-20.

They will investigate if music and hypnotherapy together help us to be stronger in the formulation of our own identity today. They will do so by recording material under hypnosis which will be shaped into their first studio album. The individual members of the collective will also perform a public concert on May 18.

Here are some reflections on the project:

“Who is the real me?” is one of the most persistent questions in human history. It is a question that obviously has no simple answer. Still, we know that from the day we are born that we are influenced by the outside world. We are shaped by our experiences of the natural and technological environment. But maybe more importantly, we are influenced by parents, teachers, siblings, friends, colleagues, the media, social media, politics, economic reality and artistic influences.

As our society gradually becomes more complex, the external pressure on each individual becomes stronger, it therefore becomes increasingly important to know who we are. At the same time it is not simple for each individual to formulate his/her life goals without influence of the above named external forces. It is harder than ever to distinguish our own wishes from those that are imposed on us by social and commercial interests.

Each individual human being struggles on his/her journey through life to make the most of the potential that he/she has. Not knowing who we are and where we belong can stop us from contributing to our loved ones’ lives and to society in general. In order to make this search easier, humanity has developed innumerable techniques to navigate through our inner lives: religious beliefs, psychoanalysis and self-help

Art and music are some of the oldest and most versatile tools for inner navigation and hypnotherapy is one of the most recent ones to be developed. In this project, artists, musicians and hypnotherapists from Sweden and France join forces to investigate what can be learned from bringing hypnotherapy and art together.

Per Huttner will play with Alpha Xiao at Tribunalen festival in Stockholm. He will also make music for the Zygote team. They will present new work at 6pm and 8.30pm respectively on May 12, 2024.

Alpha Xiao is an experimental musical group consisting of a portable electroencephalagraph (EEG) modulating designed audio samples  and a traditional Chinese flute called a Xiao. The two person constellation focuses musically on connectivity through rough sketches of compositions, sounds and themes. As brain waves influence certain dynamics of the sound, and vice versa, a type of feedback loop is generated between the activities of the brain and sound produced ad infinitum. Alpha Xiao often invites external collaborators and uses inspiration from contemporary research to create inventive concerts and visionary performances. For this performance they have invited Sebastian of Godmother to play the EEGsynth.

Zygote is project where performance artists, fashion designers, musicians and researchers in foetal development are working together. Zygote is a mobile laboratory that moves between different Swedish urban and natural locations. The work is a collective investigation, where the audience is actively involved in shaping the results. The process does not result in a final performance, instead the working group conducts a series of ongoing investigations together with different audience groups. We call these proto-performances. This makes the work an ongoing and investigative process. They will present such a proto-performance at Tribunalen.,

Entrance is free, but please boo in advance. You can book your tickets here.

Welcome!!!

The project forms a part of Transformation III and is co-funded by The Swedish Arts Council.