PALS 2014 -International festival for performance art

The time has come for the follow-up to the much appreciated festival PALS 2012!

The 25th - 27th of april Fylkingen has the great pleasure to invite you to PALS -Stockholms international performance art festival!

The core of performance art is to be found in its prescence in the now, in the unique meeting between the artist and her audience. During three days we show internationally renowned performance artists works, live -here and now.

 

30 artists from 12 countries participate in the festival!

 

During the week before the festival we are hosting a workshop run by Marilyn Arsem (USA) and Elin Wikström (Sweden) together with art students from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Poland and USA. The students will also take part in the festival program alongside the other artists of the festival.

 

The program in short:
22-24/4 PALS workshop at Fylkingen.

 

Friday 25/4 18.00-24.00. Gala premiere!
The festival is opened with pomp and circumstance at Fylkingen.
The fully packed performance art program goes on until midnight.

 

Saturday 26/4 15.00-16.30 Södermalm
18.00-24.00
Performance Kulturnatt!
Performancefestival at Fylkingen as a part of Kulturnatt Stockholm.

 

Sunday 27/4 12.00 – 16.30 - 18.00 Performances at Slussen!
The festival is continues on Sunday with performances in public space
– at Södermalmstorg/Slussen/Södermalm

 

PALS bloggers

During the festival and short time after PALS web page will be updated continiously with text and image posts about performances shown on the festival.
Saulė Mažeikaitė studied art history and theory at the Vilnius Academy of Art and worked as exhibitions and projects curator, art critic, art director in different cultural institutions in Lithuania. Her articles have been published in Lithuanians’ culture portals and newspapers. Now she works as cultural attaché at the Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm.

Edvin Sandström is preparing his phd in Sociology at Uppsala University and has since 2011 been conducting research on performance art. He has written about how performance art can serve as communicative practice and its methodological opportunities within qualitative research. Edvin's current focus concentrates on festivals as sites of (re)production of performance art.

 

Contact:

www.palsfestival.se

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www.fylkingen.se

Fylkingen, Münchenbryggeriet, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2

Free admission!

 


Fylkingen production

Organizers: Irina Anufrieva, Lovisa Johansson, Denis Romanovski, Erik Wijkström