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.

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presented by Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, 24 January - 10 February 2009

In a series of interventions taking place in between the scheduled program at Elaine Levy Project International Festival is concerned with the performed architecture of temporary and micro communities in relation to production of subjectivity.

With a light gesture resonating of lowbrow glam the second episode examines relations between amplification and production of political communities. After opposing the politics of research with the notion of rehearsal utilizing the rock band in a scenario contesting the linear economy of representation, the dramaturgy has shifted to highlight the emergence of power in relationship to presence and term of response. Inserting an object with strong political aura into a play with superficiality, reflection and seduction proposes a politics in the making questioning the stabilizing regime of representation.

The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space, Liverpool, Dec 14th - Feb 1st 2009

International Festival's new piece opens on December 14th and runs until 1 February 2009 at TATE Liverpool. International Festival has been commissioned to design a social space for the show The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space. A loose set of components and an abundance of more or less silly ideas facilitates the opportunity for a different experience of the museum. A modular and flexible film-set installation can be modified and reconfigured to host a myriad of performances and events. A series of activities – from gatherings of hobby groups to live performance by artists' collectives, from academic discussions to stand-up comedy – is being programmed to run throughout the exhibition.

presented by Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, 15 - 27 November

In a series of interventions taking place in between the scheduled program at Elaine Levy Project International Festival is concerned with the performed architecture of temporary and micro communities in relation to production of subjectivity. The first episode brings forth the notion of “rehearsal”. It focuses upon the political undercurrents of working together, through a fragmented restaging of rehearsal footage of Rolling Stones. The intervention displaces modes of representation in order to question production of subjectivity, towards an affectual production that address possible processes of individuation.

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- a snapshot speed book production

On the Day of Architecture organized by the Swedish Association of Architects, International Festival assembled an editorial team. Together with a large portion of the architectural community in Sweden, they produced a book that is a snap-shot of the state of architecture across the globe. The book was produced on site over 8 hours by 500 architects and 7 choreographers, fuelled by 1500 cakes. As well as putting together seminal texts dealing with all aspects of architecture there was online interviews with top class professionals from all over the world, minute to minute monitoring of the upswing and recession of architecture, photo shoots, life size graphic design and opportunities to make your voice heard.

Check out the 500 diet on-line version HERE

The mobile disco with International Festival. A one-night mobile-happiness-disco-tour through the city of Graz, performed during steirischer herbst 2008.

The smallest disco ever! Even smaller than Prince.

VIDEO MOBILE DISCO

September 11 - November 23 International Festival at the Venezia Biennale Architettura
When sunsets become architecture and devices point away from architecture fixed on the material of the monumental. This is when International Festival takes the Proustian effect by the hand, walking down the streets where nothing is about realisation but all about the potentiality of Strawberry Fields forever. This is a proposal for a weak space with unique qualities that architecture cannot hope to equal; variable, free, invisible, present and ever expanding. Fuzzy borders into corporate strategies for maximizing brand perception and enhanced consumer behaviour allowing us to define and inhabit new mental territories, where the persistence of architecture-as-monumental-space appear as evidence of sentimentality. A place where architecture is no longer limited to putting functions and objects in order, a situation in favour of a multitude of perspectives; shifting our understanding of inside and outside, producer and consumer, opportunity and annoyance. Most of all, setting things in motion, producing architecture that says: -Underneath every no flows an unbroken passion for yes.

See the PODCAST at CAST YOUR ART

As part of Impulstanz 2008 International Festival is in the process of making SWEAT - the future of dance movies.

Blake Edwards: [On the set of the Pink Panther] Mr. Sellers, welcome to Hollywood.
Peter Sellers: But this is Austria.
Blake Edwards: Hollywood's a state of mind.

20.000 multicolored balls, 190 pages and an answering machine massage compose the hieroglyphic structure of International Festival’s new work presented in the group show Toys R’ Us at Brändström & Stene Gallery in Stockholm. Opening 10 April 17.00 (10 April – 13 May).

During VOLTA NY International Festival’s crew (Tor Lindstrand, Marlie Mul and Mårten Spångberg) hosted the booth and offered a congenial situation for Fruit and Flower Deli, engaging in a never ending series of conversation and most of all giving the visitors an entry to a moment when, as the Oracle has it, “rules are set aside, the logic of poetry on reverse, and what is done goes beyond simply...”

Saturday 1 March International Festival brings out a new piece CAPITALISM! Bring It On Again at Nederlands Architectuurinstituut

“International Festival dresses up, addressing concepts of costume between architecture and performance, in combination with "thing" and expectation, projection and containment. CAPITALISM! Bring It On Again is another dress code for present day production of relations, a series of in situ productions laid out as grid where landslide and curtain raiser is parallel, and suit and suite is perpendicular to silicon and rubber boots. International Festival will remix dance group with sweatshop together with a team of architects, dancers and others to create a compilation celebrating haute couture, striptease, down dressing and facades.”

Through out 2008 International Festival will give a sermon every Saturday at Fruit and Flower Delii, at 53 Stanton St. in New York City.

The Oracle expressed: - "At some point someone will speak."