The Pickle Sisters are back! This time in a different setting, but still investigating memories in the collective brine. As part of their study program at the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy, Jo Dahlbäck and Petros Mandalos will be sharing their performances here at Warehouse9 16th May 2026. 

Entrance: Free, with sign up 

16.00 – 17.00: First sharing

17.30 – 18.30: Second sharing

Please note that the performances play twice and are identical, so you only need to sign up for one of the sharings. Unless you just can’t get enough – and in that case, feel free to join both! 

Performance by Jo Dahlbäck

The performance investigates how a formal meeting structure, following a strict protocol, can become a space for meeting in another sense, through memory. The participants gather not only in the present, but across imagined and parallel timelines, and in conversation with objects. Through the roles we perform in the meeting, we perform memories that are simultaneously ours and someone else’s. The work invites anonymous contributions, as memories are shared and layered, forming a collective past. The meeting takes us to a “then,” both future and past, as it unfolds in a continuous loop, assisted by two shy trolls whose presence situates us somewhere other than the present.

Jo Dahlbäck is a theatre maker, scenographer and costume designer based in Stockholm/Berlin, working in theatre and performing arts. Their practice is rooted in queer methodologies and collective processes, exploring how performance can challenge power structures and social norms. They are particularly interested in challenging normative understandings of time by proposing ecological and queer temporalities.

Performance by Petros Mandalos 

Pickling is strange when you think about it. You’re keeping something by drowning it. The brine is everything around us: the politics, the histories we didn’t ask for, the air we’ve been breathing without noticing. Things change inside the jar. Some memories go sour. Others get stranger, or softer, or sharper than they were. Together we’ll sit inside the brine and look at what we’ve soaked up, what we’d rather spit out, and what we actually want to keep. Pickling, here, is what we do when we can’t throw something away but can’t keep carrying it either.

Petros Mandalos is a theatre-maker, writer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work unfolds through queer perspectives on performance, memory, and resistance. Moving between theatre, visual storytelling, and installation, he creates hybrid forms that expose the cracks between the private and the political.

In collaboration with Malmö Theatre Academy as part of their study program at the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice.

www.thm.lu.se

Warehouse9 is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and The City of Copenhagen.  

Access Information

Warehouse9 has a level entrance and a gender-neutral accessible toilet, reachable via a certified stairlift.

All events are run as relaxed spaces, with a safer space policy in place. We kindly ask visitors to orient themselves to the space and policy upon arrival.