Stina Nyberg

Andros Zins-Browne

Diederik Peeters

Spectrophilia

Remake and old photo next to each other of person with a sheet build on their head with a picture of a woman on the top

Visually descripted 7.11

Th 7.11.2019, 19:00-21:00, MDT

Fr 8.11.2019, 19:00-21:00, MDT

In 2018, choreographers Andros Zins-Browne and Stina Nyberg along with theatermaker Diederik Peeters teamed up to make "SPECTROPHILIA" at the festival Almost Summer at BUDA in Kortrijk Belgium, an evening which delved into the links between the three artists’ common interests in the supernatural,the esoteric, the uncanny, and the haunted. The result was a spooky night of puppets telling (erotic) ghost stories, a concert made to raise the dead, and a dance haunted by the Swedish Black Metal artist Dead.

Now, the three will join forces again to make a mini-festival in Stockholm, bringing a medium who will converse with whoever might be haunting MDT, a lecture by a bat, and several talking heads- all delving deeper into their investigations of voices without bodies, bodies without voices, and the sex appeal of ghosts. The evening will be accompanied by musical concerts by the theremin player Grégoire Blanc, a lecture in the dark by the specialist in the concept of the uncanny Anneleen Masschelein and the Tesla coil performance Alternating Currents by electric musician Maria w Horn and Stina Nyberg, as well as several other collaborators who are no longer with us but nevertheless have lots to say.

Stina Nyberg

Stina Nyberg is a choreographer and dancer with a practice oscillating between sensation, articulation and representation. In her processes she crafts alternate systems of logic in order to construct the world differently, and act accordingly. Often working in collaboration with others she aims to include how to work into what we work with.

Stina works both independently and collectively, in temporary collaborations with theatres, institutions and other animals. She has made works on commission from Cullberg, Norrdans and Statens konstråd, as well as series of independent works dealing with questions of power, gender, interdependence and magic. She is a member of the artist run organisations höjden, Fylkingen and Interim kultur and currently part of the artistic cohort of Rose Choreographic School based at Sadler’s Wells in London.

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Andros Zins-Browne

Andros Zins-Browne, born in New York in 1981, works at the intersection of performance and dance. His work extends choreographic notions into encounters with dancers, nondancers, singers, objects, and texts. Since 2016, his performance Already Unmade where he de-hearses previous works, ‘unmaking’ them, has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris. In 2019, Atlas Unlimited, a series of exhibitions in collaboration with artist Karthik Pandian, was featured at the PERFORMA19 Biennial, New York, and as a series of music videos currently presented on the Criterion Channel. In 2020/21, his work was commissioned for online projects by Danspace Project, the Aspen Art Museum, and Triple Canopy. 


In 2022, Zins-Browne premiered color a body who flees, a collaborative sound installation and performance series at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Performance remixes include The Tony Cokes Remixes, 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), Dia Art Foundation (2023); See-Saw, MoMA, New York (2019) and Asymmetry 222, Getty Museum, Los Angeles by Simone Forti; as well as Jérôme Bel, 1995 (2020) KADIST, Paris, in collaboration with e-flux (2020). In collaboration with Ley, Kris Lee and a host of co-conspirators, Zins-Browne premiered duel c (River-To-River Festival, 2023) a performance that ascended Outlook Hill on Governors’ Island, in a choreography that stirs towards a commingling of care and violence. Zins-Browne is the recipient of awards from the Goethe-Institut; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community; and New York State Council on the Arts.

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Diederik Peeters

Diederik Peeters is an officially certified visual artist that accidentally got lost in the stables of stage-art, and usually makes performances, but has also been caught writing texts, inventing installations or video’s and crafting other amalgams that appear hard to categorise. Because Peeters is a proud patient of a pathological preference for confusion, in his work impossible contradictions and absurd consistencies are stubbornly piled up.

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