International Festival: CAPITALISM! In It To Win It VOLTA NY March 27-30


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...”

International Festival: CAPITALISM! Bring It On Again

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.”

International Festival: Saturday Sermons at Fruit and Flower Deli

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."

International Festival: Son Of Man at Fruit and Flower Deli

International Festival Son of Man is the first solo show at Fruit and Flower Deli, it is an act of love by International Festival, a way to respond to the Oracle, and by this supporting the Oracle, to prevail, and to let the voice of the Oracle be heard in Fruit and Flower Deli. International Festival will for one entire year cover the rent of the gallery, this is their piece and the show. The show will be up until mid january, like any other ordinary show, but the effects of the work will last for a year, allowing the gallery to be regardless of what. With this piece International Festival also indebts the Keeper to do what the Keeper should do.

International Festival: On The Town

As part of PERFORMA07, New York’s second biennial of new visual art performance, International Festival takes on the monumental task of re-shooting the entirety of On The Town (98 minutes), Stanley Donen’s seminal 1949 dance film featuring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and others, in order to produce an inter-textual fiction engaging with the spatial and social geographies of New York City.

The actors exploring New York in the original film will be replaced by the performing team of International Festival. This social performance will take place over the course of a twenty-one day shoot, creating a wide variety of social situations as the team searches for and re-films scenes at the locations in the movie. The original On the Town will be running on a loop at Storefront throughout the process, and each day, the new material shot will be superimposed onto the original film, so that the final day’s shoot will complete the “erasure” of the original.