Performa 07 opens on October 27 launching a four-week program of performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposia and live events featuring about one hundred international artists at more than fifty leading cultural institutions throughout the city.Nathalie Djurberg presents her first live work, Untitled (Working Title Kids & Dogs), a claymation film with live musical accompaniment oscillating between music, written and performed by Hans Berg, and sounds produced by Djurberg, Berg and Pascal Strauss. The performances will take place at the Zipper Theater on Manhattan's West Side on October 28 and 30.Putting an abject twist on the traditionally innocuous medium of stop-motion clay animation, Nathalie Djurberg's short films spin narrative tales of sadism, molestation, eroticism, and transgression, all set to whimsical music-box soundtracks, as entertaining as they are unsettling. Djurberg has had solo shows at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and recently participated in group shows at New York's P.S.1 and London's Tate Modern.International Festival (the collaborative platform of architect Tor Lindstrand and performance-related artist Mårten Spångberg) will, over the course of twenty-one days beginning November 1, re-shoot the entirety of On The Town, Stanley Donen's seminal 1949 dance film starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, in order to produce an intertextual fiction of New York as spatial layout. Every day new material will be superimposed onto the original and screened on the street at Storefront for Art & Architecture at 97 Kenmare Street.The biennial will also feature the world premiere of Snöfrid #0, an art magazine including several artists based in Sweden and elsewhere.For information and showtimes: www.performa07.comImage: Production still from untitled commissionCourtesy of the artist, Nathalie Djurberg, 2007