Excerpt of INSTITUTET (SE) performing their demo
Real Change requires Real Action or Real Action requires Real Change?
MIT DEMO Festival -08 is now in full action. This is a reflection of the first day of the festival and on how performers and audience responded to the theme of Real Action. But please, do not misread me! This is not about defining opposites, on the contrary. It is more a “Cageian” reflection that silence mean [...]
Eisenächer/Harder CLAIMS (DE) have been investigating their Reality Crime Scene
Eisenächer/Harder CLAIMS (DE) have been investigating their Reality Crime Scene
What are you not allowed to do here?
This is the question that performance duo EISENHÄCHER/HARDER asked random people around commercial center Triangeln yesterday as part of their investigation/preparation for their DEMO on Saturday. Some of the answers they got were: Have intercourse Light a fire Land a helicopter Drink alcohol Murder Chop down the Christmas tree If I understand this properly they [...]
INSTITUT DES RECHERCHES MENANT A RIEN (FR) in rehearsal
INSTITUT DES RECHERCHES MENANT A RIEN (FR) in rehearsal
More arrivals and preparations
More participants have now arrived to Malmö. The latest addition to the festival is the Finnish trio RAKEL + ANTTI + ANNA. We met them briefly at their rehearsal place at Stadt Hamburgatan 1 on tuesday. The French group INSTITUT DES RECHERCHES MENANT A RIEN is also located in one of the studios at Stadt Hamburggatan. [...]
Attention!
The Berlin based performance art duo Eisenächer/Harder CLAIMS is looking for participants for their 4-day-workshop Reality Crime Scene during MIT DEMO 08. Are you interested in being an artist-activist tackling social realities with artistic means? Do you feel the desire for doing actions in public spaces you’re not supposed to do? Do you want to [...]
“Malmö is too clean”
The first arrivals to the festival, French artists of INSTITUT DES RECHERCHES MENANT A RIEN were taken on a field trip around the port areas of Malmö on early Sunday. They are looking for metal, used electronic equipments and other garbage for their investigation of “Real Action”. As mentioned in their description they will explore [...]
