Re~Percussion

Re~Percussion is a collaborative threefold experiment involving artists from six countries and four disciplines: part performance, part concert, and part exhibition.

A ritual where dance, film, and music entangle, affect, and resonate in new and wonder-evoking ways.


Re~Percussion explores the poetics engendered by technology when in dialogue with performers and instruments. A vacuum cleaner inhales chords from a harmonium. Electromagnets induce delicate and ethereal-sounding textures within a grand piano. Vibrating speakers excite instruments, causing objects to dance and strings to sing while flickering film projections modulate the walls. Hybrids of all kinds assemble and syncopate – resounding one another.


Performers and audience explore this uncanny environment together ~ unraveling a multilayered concert performance that delves into the essence of vibrations, exploring their spatiotemporal possibilities when joining every -thing, -body, and -place via the interplay of movement, sound, and light.

The musicians Stephan Meidell, Magda Mayas, and Sigbjørn Apeland share an unconventional approach to their instruments, motivated by improvisation and attentive playfulness. Dancer and composer Mirte Bogaert brings a musical sensibility to her elaborate movements, while cinematographers Carlos Vasquez and Melina Pafundi utilize old analog film techniques and DIY solutions to fill the space with captivating projections that unfold throughout the performance.

The title RePercussion plays on the words percussion and repercussion, highlighting the extended acoustic instrumentation, how it is handled, the process of evoking resonance, and its eventual consequence. The piece explores the relationship between instruments and artists, rippling through and foregrounding an interconnectedness among those attending.

Re~Percussion can be experienced as a sound and film installation the next day. Discovering remnants and following traces from the live show, performance artist Fernanda Branco encounters th

Stephan Meidell Guitar, electronics, concept

Magda Mayas Prepared piano

Sigbjørn Apeland Pump organ

Mirte Bogaert Dance

Carlos Vasquez Analogue film, lights

Melina Pafundi Analogue film, DIAS projections

Fernanda Branco Performance

Re~Percussion was premiered at the Henie Onstad Art Centre on October 13th and 14th, 2023