Phantom Scores | New Temporary Programme Announcement Sandberg
Sandberg Instituut is pleased to announce the new, two-year Temporary Programme titled Phantom Scores, starting in September 2026 in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution and led by curator and researcher Eva Posas. The programme intersects and builds on Eva's research Phantom Languages within the context of Nations Without State, and the work done by If I Can’t Dance over the past 20 years in the field of performance and performativity.
The programme aims to explore the rich and interdisciplinary field of performance as a research methodology through the phantoms that live in and outside us. These phantoms bring forth experiences of repression, either on an individual or collective level, at moments of feeling caught in a world that rejects their forms of knowing and expression. Between the visible and the invisible, scores register, carry and instigate manifestations. Phantom Scores addresses the impalpable and yet present set of suggestions, actions and knowledge inscribed within bodies, their genealogies, behaviours and relations.
Read more about the programme here.
Applications are open from January 6 until April 1, 2026. To apply, visit here.
Tidal Gatherings, If I Can't Dance, 2024. Photo by Prins de Vos.
Tidal Gatherings, If I Can't Dance, 2024. Photo by Prins de Vos.
Procession, a performatical activation of Guendabiaani’. Diego Matus for Xigagueta, 2025. Photo by Juana Pola.
Dear Ursula, paper garments as ghost money for the ancestors, by Amy Suo Wu for The Brain Mixologist. Curated by Eva Posas2021. Photo by LNDWstudios
Nine Acts Over Ailing Bay, a choreographical score written through an ouija session by Valentina Jager for The Brain Mixologist. Curated by Eva Posas 2021. Photo by LNDWstudio
Ejercicio de curación 1. Formas de estar en el mundo, performance of prehispanic objects and healing plants by María Sosa for The Brain Mixologist. Curated by Eva Posas 2021. Photo by LNDWstudio
Rituals for the new moon. Aliki van der Kruis & Aldo Ramos, 2021. Registration by Savas Boyraz
Qatee Ya’, Whisper performance to the Grandmother Lake. Cheen Cortés as Tz'aqat, 2024. Registration by Tz'aqat
Mbuchi: Turtle Words. Written by Eva Posas, 2024. Photo by Zahra Malkani.
Ejercicio de curación 1. Formas de estar en el mundo, performance of prehispanic objects and healing plants. María Sosa, 2021.
Procession, a performatical activation of Guendabiaani'. Diego Matus for Xigagueta, 2025. Photo by Juana Pola.