THE PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE- Topicalities was a performance where Iris Smeds invited artists and academics to shape and discuss the issue of topicality. The performance was staged in a conference room at Clarion Hotel in Stockholm, and was aimed to merge an intellectual discourse with an artistic formation- in an common attempt to answer the question of what topicality actually is.

Contributors: Anders Burman, Anna Hertsberg, Bokbål Förlag, Elmira Arikan, Fred Saboonchi, Jakob von Oelreich, Jennifer Rainsford, Jonatan Habib Enqvist, Johan Bergström Hyldahl, Marja Leena Sillanpää. Producer: Simon Hansson. THE PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE- Topicalites was a collaboration with Dramalabbet, in connection to their show Topicalites.