Dance/Post-Dance and Contemporary Art: A One-Day Laboratory

Karin Bähler Lavér is a curator and facilitator based in Malmö, whose work centers on art’s potential to cultivate shared imaginaries and new forms of being-in-common. She is the artistic director of skēnē – space for contemporary art, a curatorial and editorial platform dedicated to cross-disciplinary dialogue and international collaboration. Through skēnē, she has developed exhibitions, programs and publications featuring artists and thinkers such as Karen Archey, Marianne Heier, Lila Lee-Morrison, Plattform KC Syd, Shamica Ruddock and Julia Selin, among others. 

Karin Bähler Lavér’s practice consistently emphasises the curatorial as a shared, processual space—one that relies on conversation, co-authorship, and the exchange of perspectives across borders and disciplines. Her previous curatorial projects include Underneath the Paving Stone at Lunds konsthall (2025), featuring among others Lygia Clark, Anne Tallentire and Yuko Mohri and The 2020 Luleå Biennial: Time on Earth, co-curated with Emily Fahlén and Asrin Haidari, a collaboration between artists and thinkers addressing realism, temporality and ecologies across northern geographies. 

Manuel Pelmuş (1974, Bucharest, Romania) is a choreographer and artist who reimagines performance in the context of the visual arts. He uses continuous live presence, enactment, and the human body to explore memory and the construction of history. His work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MUNCH, Oslo; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; TanzQuartier, Vienna; and Tanz im August, Berlin, among others. In 2013, Pelmuș represented Romania at the 55th Venice Biennale with Alexandra Pirici. He lives in Oslo.

Stacey de Voe is a visual artist (b.1988) in New York and based in Malmö, Sweden. Through a research oriented approach, her practice uses site-specificity and the archive to investigate broader issues concerning textile histories, collective memory, feminized labor and friendship. 

Not bound to a specific medium the materiality of her practice unfolds across installation, sculpture, moving image, performance, printmaking and publication. Through an assemblage of artisanal and mass-produced objects, de Voe allows divergent historical residues to connect and disconnect, opening up for new relations and meanings to emerge. 

de Voe has exhibited and performed work at SYSTEMA, Marseille (2026); Au Passage, Paris (2026); Moderna Museet (2026); Simian, Copenhagen (2025); Skēnē – Space for Contemporary Art, Malmö (2025); LCCA/Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (2025); Skånes Konstförening, Malmö (2024); Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo (2024), amongst others. 

She was a resident at the ISCP in New York in 2026 (IASPIS) and at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris in 2025. 

Josefine Wikström is a critic and researcher living in Gothenburg. Her research focuses on dance and performance in contemporary art from art philosophical and historically materialist perspectives. She is the author of the book Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of performance (2021), Objects of Feminism (2017 together with Maija Timonen); Kritik av konstens frihet (2022 together with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West) and Autonomins Sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller (2024 together with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West). She has been published in journals such as Radical Philosophy, Third Text, Performance Research Journal and Texte Zur Kunst. She writes regular dance critique for Dagens Nyheter and serves as one of the editors of the experimental philosophy- and art- platform SITE Zones. She works as a senior lecturer in the theory and practice of contemporary performative arts at the Academy of Music and Drama, at Gothenburg University.

Tintin Wulia is an artist and Senior Researcher at the HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK. She explores the intricate power dynamics of societal and geopolitical borders as interfaces, through a multi-disciplinary approach that includes text, video, sound, painting, drawing, dance, installation, performance, and public intervention, tackling these subjects both pragmatically and conceptually. Since 2000 she has contributed to 200 international exhibitions and publications, including Istanbul Biennale (2005), Moscow Biennale (2011), Sharjah Biennale (2013), and most recently the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennale, as well as a solo pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Her text publication includes a chapter contribution to the award-winning edited volume Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (New York: Routledge, 2022). Her works are part of prominent public collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum and He Xiangning Art Museum. Currently she is Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council-funded Protocols of Killings: 1965, Distance, and the Ethics of Future Warfare (2021-24) and the European Research Council-funded Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change/THINGSTIGATE (2023-28).