Fringe Festival 26:th of August to the 1st September
26.08.24The 15th edition of Stockholm Fringe Festival (#STOFF2024) is coming to 25 different venues across Stockholm from August 26th to September 1st, featuring over 200 live events and 100 acts!
Freyja Söder is, of course, joining in since we are passionate about culture. Several artworks will be displayed throughout the restaurant in the form of short films. Rumor has it that performance artists will also make appearances on Söderterrassen. We will be showing the following short films:
Screendance, featuring BEAST, Bronx Magic, Lucid Dreaming, I Need a Fix, Preface, Ratking & Spellbound Choreography, creativity, and storytelling through dance. Screendance aims to showcase captivating choreography with dynamic cineography by presenting dance films from around the world.
JOY, Artist/Group: Julieta Tetelbaum
Joy is the sequel to the queer feminist short film “Wake Up! It’s Yesterday,” filmed in New York in 2020. The film is a journey through the mind of a 65-year-old lesbian working-class woman who is addicted to sugar and can’t stop thinking about her first love. She lives with her partner—a mannequin she has built to look exactly like her ex. This tragicomic film dives deep into moments of intimacy, loneliness, sexuality, joy, and the desperate longing to be loved.
PERIFIERI, featuring Tanne Willow, Anna Näsström, Yared Tilahun Ceder
PERIFERI is a mesmerizing blend of movement, rhythm, and nature. It evokes the essence of a summer night, with a deep bass that pulses like the heartbeat of yearning—a yearning to release your emotions, to let them flow freely, or a quest to discover, embrace, and survive them. The plastic envelops and flows, both devastating and liberating, mirroring the struggle between the conscious and the subconscious. What do you wish to leave behind? What do you want to carry forward? PERIFERI invites us on a journey where we can all recognize, search, and arrive together.
Vardagsmat, featuring Kajsa Jacobsen, Johannes Stavland
Two dancers live in a neutral apartment, dressed in absurd clothing. With simple and slow movements, they eat breakfast cereal, slowly fall from their chairs—it’s a thought experiment; they are never entirely present. They sit at the dining table, on the sofa, and engage in a staring contest with the audience, but where is the audience? One stands on the sofa, paralyzed, with a powerful fan blowing, while another falls, creating echoes.
We often find ourselves in a creative bubble within the art world, at school, or out in the field, struggling to reconnect with “normal” everyday life. We want to explore what happens when you remain in a performative state and continue to wear the costumes at home. The artistic work lingers in the artist’s body, echoing into daily life. What happens if we once again subject this audience-less performance to an audience? A performance that echoes a previous performance, which echoes previous performances, and so on. How will the dancers behave at a public event? They seem to be just guests, but they wear these huge, abnormal costumes. Do they know there are others in the room? The artist’s life is filled with echoes; our own work flows into our daily tasks and vice versa.
In a very concrete way, we have a video that is currently 2:30 long and not yet entirely finished. We are also exploring these characters in a live performative setting. A performance without a time frame, seamlessly blending in with the people at the festival, and so on
