Josefina Björk

TEMPO is a bar where the audience is invited to hang out, drink cocktails, sing karaoke, and help prepare the evenings after-work. It sounds like a perfectly ordinary bar — but every now and then, something happens and time falls out of sync. Is the music glitching? Is the disco light broken? Has the bartender had a stroke? You’re standing in the bar queue, increasingly irritated, waiting for a beer that never arrives. The DJ sings a pitch-down version of Fredis Milloinkaan, en löydä samanlaista, and a stranger buys you a drink. The evening ends with a shared after-work buffet featuring tapas. The performance is free of charge and no ticket reservation is required. Audience capacity is limited, so arrive early to secure your spot. Affordable bar prices. Age limit: 18+. Concept & Direction: Josefina Björk Performers and Collaborators: Alexandra Tveit, Majula Drammeh, Josefina Björk, Adde Huumonen, Eric Sjögren. Composition and Sound design: Adde Huumonen Light Design: Christoffer Lloyd Dramaturgy: Eric Sjögren / Aapo Korkeaoja Graphic design: Evelina Mohei

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Josefina Björk is a Swedish artist, performer, and director who works with immersive performance and film. Björk’s works often take the form of familiar, but slightly twisted social situations in which the audience and performer form a temporary relation.The situations examine contemporary cultural dilemmas and the ways in which its associated mechanisms shape our capacities to be in emotional states such as: community, presence, rapture, and trust. Björk’s work has been commissioned and presented by: Göteborgs Konsthall, Moderna Dansteatern, Röda Sten Konsthall, Inkonst, Skogen, Konträr, and Lilith Performance Studio. Alongside her artistic practice, she is a co-founder of Ställbergs gruva and in collaboration with the performance company Poste Restante, she co-directs Back2work.