International Festival - www.international-festival.org
Artist's Statement
International Festival is a project initiated between architecture and performance presenting work in several cultural contexts. 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.
International Festival is a long-term project that operates between architecture and performance, emphasizing potentiality and performance of space and relations. International Festival brings in context-specific projects, challenging social conventions and ways of communication through methods of filling in, shifting via oblique perspectives and ontologies of exchange. International Festival dislocates performance from its dialectical dispositif in order to produce possibilities for multiplicity of production and performance where the spectator become activated.
International Festival performs the performance of the always already there. International Festival are currently involved in projects with van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, NAi Netherlands Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam, Fruit and Flower Deli, New York. Elaine Levy Project, Bruxelles, Brändström and Stene Gallery, Stockholm. International Festival was elected “Architects of the Year” in Sweden for 2007.
International Festival has since its initiation (2004) created projects in various media from television and video to installations and activating environments. It 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, advertisement and activism, architecture and performance. International Festival challenge in their work our understanding of private and public, and its relation to identity production and knowledge.
Tor Lindstrand (Stockholm) is an architect active in his own office Larsson, Lindstrand and Palme. He is senior lecturer at the Royal School of Architecture in Stockholm specializing in digital interfaces for architectural production. Tor Lindstrand has worked as an artist often together with Mårten Spångberg creating works for both visual and performance art contexts. He is co-editor of Merge, a magazine on visual culture published in English, since1996.
Mårten Spångberg (Berlin) is a performance related artist, writer and curator. He has created his own work since 1994 with emphasize on choreographic structures, and has been commissioned as a choreographer for e.g. the Frankfurt Ballet. His work has been shown in most European countries and he has worked with choreographers such as Xavier Le Roy and Les Ballets C de la B. From 1996-04 he organized and curated the international performance/dance festival Panacea and was commissioned curator of performing arts at the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2001-04. He was visiting professor at the Univ. of Giessen 2000-02, lecturer at P.A.R.T.S. 2001-06 and was teaching long-term classes both at the arts academy in Maastricht, as well as at Royal School of Theatre in Stockholm.
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Tor Lindstrand 1968 & Mårten Spångberg 1968, Sweden.
International Festival is a project initiated between architecture and performance presenting work in several cultural contexts. 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.
International Festival is a long-term project that operates between architecture and performance, emphasizing potentiality and performance of space and relations. International Festival brings in context-specific projects, challenging social conventions and ways of communication through methods of filling in, shifting via oblique perspectives and ontologies of exchange. International Festival dislocates performance from its dialectical dispositif in order to produce possibilities for multiplicity of production and performance where the spectator become activated.
International Festival has since its initiation (2004) created projects in various media from television and video to installations and activating environments. It 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, advertisement and activism, architecture and performance. International Festival challenge in their work our understanding of private and public, and its relation to identity production and knowledge.
Tor Lindstrand (Stockholm) is an architect active in his own office Larsson, Lindstrand and Palme. He is senior lecturer at the Royal School of Architecture in Stockholm specializing in digital interfaces for architectural production. Tor Lindstrand has worked as an artist often together with Mårten Spångberg creating works for both visual and performance art contexts. He is co-editor of Merge, a magazine on visual culture published in English, since1996.
Mårten Spångberg (Berlin) is a performance related artist, writer and curator. He has created his own work since 1994 with emphasize on choreographic structures, and has been commissioned as a choreographer for e.g. the Frankfurt Ballet. His work has been shown in most European countries and he has worked with choreographers such as Xavier Le Roy and Les Ballets C de la B. From 1996-04 he organized and curated the international performance/dance festival Panacea and was commissioned curator of performing arts at the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2001-04. He was visiting professor at the Univ. of Giessen 2000-02, lecturer at P.A.R.T.S. 2001-06 and was teaching long-term classes both at the arts academy in Maastricht, as well as at Royal School of Theatre in Stockholm.
SOLO AND GROUP SHOWS
2009
SOS 48 festival, Murcia, Spain
International Festival : Sing This All Together (See What Happens), Elaine Lévy Project - Brussels
International Festival : I Know It’s Gonna Work Out Fine, Elaine Lévy Project - Brussels
International Festival : Start Me Up, The Fifth Floor : Ideas Taking Space, Tate Liverpool
2008
International Festival: Son of Man, Fruit and Flower Deli - New York
International Festival: Capitalism! Bring It On Again, NAI - Rotterdam
International Festival: Jesus Christ Superstar - Fruit and Flower Deli/VoltaNY - New York
Toys’r’us, Brändströme & Stene – Stockholm
2007
Capitalism! Bring It On, European Kunsthalle - Cologne
Capitalism! All Or Nothing, Art - Cologne
My Market, House of World Culture - Berlin
International Festival: The Theatre, Steirischer Herbst – Graz
International Festival: On The Town, Performa/Storefront – New York
2006
Taxinge Piazza, Tensta Konsthall - Stockholm
The Adventure, Impuls Tanz Vienna
International Festival University, Van Abbe Museum - Eindhoven
The Kitchen, House of World Culture – Berlin
2005
International Festival: The Perfume, Kaai Theater - Brussels
International Festival Television Network, Boarderline Academy - Tarifa
International Festival: The Plastic Bag, Tensta Konsthall - Stockholm
Tensta Konsthall 2, Second Life project
2004
International Festival: Welcome Package, Tanz im August - Berlin
2003
Innocent Blue Eyes, Le Magasin - Grenoble
2002
i.e. All All Over Over All All et. Al., Mousonturm - Frankfurt
Artists’-talk, Tanz im August - Berlin
Which Which Way Way, Marres - Maastricht
VIDEOS
It Happened The Day Before Tomorrow (2003)
The Corridor (2005)
Comrades (2006)
International Festival: On The Town (2007)
Sweat (2008)
U. Melzwig, M. Spångberg: Reversed Engeering Education, (b_books, Berlin, 2007)
F. Malzacher, Ch. Peters, M. Spångberg: True Truth About the Nearly Real, (Frankfurt, 2002)
M. de Assis, M. Spångberg: CAPITALS, (Lisbon, 2004)
International Festival: The Adventure, (Vienna, 2006)
International Festival: Sex and The City, (Kristianstad, 2006)
International Festival: Learning From The Museum, (Einhoven, 2006)
International Festival: CAPITALISM! “Bring It On”, (Cologne, 2007)
International Festival: The Theatre, (Graz, 2007)
International Festival: Office Romance, (Stockholm, 2008)
