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Reading: ARV – a series of performing arts works
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“I lay down beneath the apple tree and fantasized about red fireballs hurling us out of the universe we had become stuck in. Do you miss mother? he whispered. I thought for a long time and didn’t know whether to let a star fall or simply let everything be. He said, you don’t have to answer.”
Welcome to a reading from the ongoing performing arts project ARV.
You will experience a documentary-poetic text that forms the foundation of the performing arts work being developed by Teater Spera at The Nordic Watercolour Museum throughout the year. The project seeks the lived experiences, traumas, and worldviews of its ancestors in order to explore how these continue to live on, take shape within the human being, and form generations.
What you will hear is not a finished work, but a step along the way – an inhale within the rhythm of creation.
The reading takes place within the exhibition, starting at 1 pm. No pre-booking required. Free of charge, admission to the museum is required.
About:
ARV (“Heritage”) is a performing arts series presented at The Nordic Watercolour Museum in collaboration with Teater Spera during 2026. The series explores themes centered on the past and how it shapes the present. Developed in dialogue with the museum’s spaces, the series creates encounters between visual art, performing arts, and poetic text.
Through readings and staged performance, temporary, site-specific events emerge in which voice, body, and text enter into dialogue with the exhibitions. ARV operates in a third space – between the visual and the performative.
Teater Spera is an independent theatre collective consisting of two performing artists based on Tjörn. Their focus is on creating innovative performing works of art, using body, voice, and text, developed through process and concept. Previous productions include Tal till nationen (“Speech to the Nation”), Nya blickar/kropp (“New Gazes/Body”), and Sammanflätade element (“Intertwined Elements”).
Public presentations at the museum 2026:
11 & 12 April
Work in Progress Reading
5 & 6 September
Work in Progress Presentation
9 & 11 October (date and time will be updated)
Premiere of the scenic performance
With support from The Nordic Watercolour Museum and the Municipality of Tjörn, as well as Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan.