ITNOS is a site-specific performance work that transforms in relation to the place and context in which it is presented. In museum settings, it draws inspiration from visual art exhibitions; outdoors, it responds to the diversity and presence of nature.

UPPSALA KONSTMUSEUM 6 December 2026 13.00 and 15.00

https://konstmuseum.uppsala.se/kalendarium/dans-itnos/

The premiere took place at Norrköping Art Museum on 21 February 2026, in connection with the exhibition Olle Bonniér – Healing the Earth, which highlighted the life’s work of the Swedish artist Olle Bonniér.

 

ITNOS

A dance and music work that transforms with the art, the space, and the place.

ITNOS is a site-specific work for two dancers and two musicians/vocalists, created for museums, art galleries, and other spaces where visual art, architecture, and people meet.

The work has a choreographic and musical core, yet no two performances are ever the same. ITNOS changes each time it encounters a new space and new works of art.

Rather than placing the performing arts in front of the visual art, ITNOS allows the different forms of expression to meet. The bodies, music, and voices respond to what is already present in the space – its forms, colours, perspectives, materials, narratives, and atmospheres. The architecture, acoustics, light, and presence of the audience also become part of the performance.

Two dancers encounter two musicians who play double bass and violin, sing, and use their voices as instruments. The relationship between them is central: sound can become movement, a body can transform the music, and a work of art can suddenly give an existing movement an entirely new meaning.

In this way, ITNOS becomes a living layer within the exhibition.

Whenever the work moves to a new museum, the process begins again. We encounter the art and the space as they are and explore how ITNOS can exist specifically within that environment. Elements may change, shift, or take on a different direction. The same music and choreographic material can therefore be experienced in entirely different ways depending on what surrounds it.

ITNOS does not require a traditional theatre space, blackout, or constructed scenography. The museum is the stage. The art is the landscape.

This also makes the work highly flexible. It can be performed within a single exhibition space, move through several rooms, or unfold as a dialogue throughout an entire exhibition. The performance can be adapted in length and presented several times during the same day.

At its original core, ITNOS explores the human capacity to keep going: losing the power to create change, trying to survive, and eventually finding a new reality, new meaning, and a renewed belief in life.

But whenever ITNOS encounters new art, new narratives also emerge.

ITNOS is therefore never finished.
It changes with the place.
It changes with the art.
And every encounter creates a new work.

Participants

Dancers: Charlotta Öfverholm and Tobias Hallgren
Musicians & vocalists: James Friedman and Lauri Antila
Choreography: Charlotta Öfverholm, Tobias Hallgren and Guido Tuveri

Duration: 18–30 minutes, adaptable to the space and context.
The work can be performed several times during the same day.