At the end of 2010, Björk confirmed she was working on a new album. In an interview published on
Fréttablaðið, the singer stated that the project was midway through the completion and that she hoped to go on tour before the end of 2011. Björk originally conceived the idea for the tour as a house in
Iceland where each room would represent a song from the album. When she was contacted from
National Geographic they proposed to produce a
3D film from that original idea. Because of that, the singer contacted long time collaborator
Michel Gondry and they started to write a script for the movie. Because of the director conflicting schedule with the editing of
The Green Hornet, the project was scrapped. The project was officialised in March 2011, with the announcement of Björk performance at
Manchester International Festival. The project, called
Biophilia, comprises a series of live performances, a new website, a documentary and a series of apps, besides the release as a music album which is partly composed on an
iPad. The Biophilia tour was said to be touring eight cities for three years and to be including a series of workshops for children in collaboration with local schools. with one show being added later and dubbed as a "preview show" on June 27, 2011. In July 2011, Björk was announced as the headliner of
Bestival, her only planned outdoor concert of that year. On July 8, 2011, the second residency was announced to be at
Harpa in
Reykjavík, with six shows planned. The first two shows were also part of
Iceland Airwaves. with a last one being announced later. The Icelandic residency went sold out. In the beginning of 2012, the third residency was announced to take place in
New York City, in partnership with The Creators Project and the
New York Hall of Science, where six of the ten planned gigs were announced to take place, with the other four being at
Roseland Ballroom. However, due to an illness, one show that was to take place at the Hall of Science was rescheduled and moved to the Roseland Ballroom. After the end of the residency, another one was announced at Centro de Exposiciones of
Buenos Aires, with the last show taking place at the
Estadio G.E.B.A. However, due to the discovery of a
nodule on her
vocal cords, Björk had to cancel the last show at the Centro de Exposiciones and the concert at the Estadio G.E.B.A. The tour started again in February 2013, with the fifth residency in
Paris, where four concerts took place at the Cirque en Chantier on the
Île Seguin and two at the
Zénith de Paris. When a fund-raising project appeared on the website for the company
Kickstarter, it was stated that the Biophilia tour would visit
San Francisco,
Los Angeles and
Tokyo as the next residencies. The
California residency was announced on April 1, 2013, with three dates in
Richmond, and three in Los Angeles. Once again, because of ticket requests, another date at the Hollywood Palladium was added. On May 21, 2013, the website of music promoters
Smash was updated with details on the last Biophilia residency at the
Miraikan museum in
Tokyo, with three dates to take place at the end of July and the beginning of August. After an announcement was previewed on Björk's official Facebook page, on June 10, 2013, the last Biophilia concert with the "in round format" was announced at the
Alexandra Palace of
London. ==Concert synopsis==