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International Festival (initiated by architect Tor Lindstrand and choreographer Marten Spangberg) is a long-term project initiated between architecture and performance presenting work in several cultural contexts. International Festival is an open frame, or label, that stimulate and engages in very different projects, all in order to avoid the establishment of a recognizable practice. Their projects are constructed and realized in the blurry zones between aesthetics and utility, object and activation, architecture and performance. International Festival deals with the notion of spectator/viewer in respect of collectivity. A theatre audience as well as museum visitors are conventionally addressed as a population, one people. The strategies of International Festival produce an audience/viewer that by taking part individuate him/herself. International Festival has not one audience but its audience is a multitude, a heterogeneous number of individuals. International Festival is all you could ever want it to be. More the real thing than Coke, a just done it in relation to Nike, it is free your mind and the rest will follow. It is music in your mouth and disturbingly healthy.
 Left; Confettification by International Festival, Confetti Shower, 2007. Right; “the Oracle”, painting by Ylva Ogland, oil on canvas, 2007. Event; World Premiere of Snöfrid hosted at Fruit and Flower Deli, and Smith-Stewart, as Part of Performa 07. |
