What would the performance / dance /
art scene look like if you got to decide?
invites you,
to take part in
The Love Story/Solidarity Act/
Performance Series/The Dream:
Finding Sisterhood is a decolonial and queer mapping of contemporary dance and performance art.
Finding Sisterhood is one of many sisterly acts where spaces and platforms are formed to present and create common languages for artists in conversations with their own and surrounding communities rather than focusing on whiteness, cis- and heteronorms.
Finding Sisterhood wants to create a space, a platform and a practice that presents, makes and creates a further language for artistic practitioners who, instead of discussing whiteness and cis- and heteronorms are in dialogue with their own communities working with queer expressions, decolonizing actions or re-indigenizing art.
*In this project Ful defines Sisterhood as an act of solidarity and non-hierarchical collaboration. All our siblings are welcome!
We would like to invite you, our beloved sibling, to make an artistic response to (for about 3-5 minutes) or create an answer to the following question:
"What would the performance / dance / art scene look like if you got to decide?"
The contribution can be as a video or sound (which we would make into a video). We’ll publish them on our youtube channel and social media such as instagram and facebook and hopefully screen them together as a longer art piece.
With love,
The Art Collective Ful
through Nasim and Rani
Alyssa Chloe
Amanda Piña
BamBam Frost
ButchFemme AB
Hoda Arbabi
J. El Hindi
Jafar the Superstar
Karina Sarkissova
Khamlane Halsackda
Lydia Östberg Diakité
Maria Naidu
Moa Matilda Sahlin
Paloma Madrid
Paula Chavez
Sara Mikolai
Sarah Nakiito
Shirley Harthey Ubilla
Timimie Märak
Tom of Tottenham
Vishnu Vardhani Rajan
Zafire Vrba
Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
FINDING SISTERHOOD: ALYSSA CHLOE
Alyssa Chloe is an internationally recognized dancer/choreographer, hailing from Chicago and moving to New York City to pursue a career in dance. After absorbing and honing her craft in New York's underground club scene, she is one of the leading force from her generation for her mastery of the styles Punking/Whacking and Vogue.
She has been featured in numerous videos, films and magazines such as Jacob Krupnick's film Girl Walk//All Day, Dazed Magazine, Dance Mogul to name a few. Currently she is based in Europe and performs internationally and since 2012, Alyssa is an ambassador and leader of the LGBTQAI+ ballroom scene in Gothenburg, Sweden.
www.alyssachloe.com
She has been featured in numerous videos, films and magazines such as Jacob Krupnick's film Girl Walk//All Day, Dazed Magazine, Dance Mogul to name a few. Currently she is based in Europe and performs internationally and since 2012, Alyssa is an ambassador and leader of the LGBTQAI+ ballroom scene in Gothenburg, Sweden.
www.alyssachloe.com
FINDING SISTERHOOD: AMANDA PINA
Amanda Piña is a Mexican-Chilean-Austrian artist and cultural worker living between Vienna and Mexico City. Her work is concerned with the decolonisation of art, focusing on the political and social power of movement. Her works are contemporary rituals for temporary dismantling the ideological separations between modern and traditional, the human, the animal and the vegetal, nature and culture.
https://nadaproductions.at/
https://nadaproductions.at/
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Bambam Frost
BamBam Frost är koreograf, dansare och performer baserad i Stockholm. Hon har en kandidatexamen i samtida dans från DOCH/SKH och har arbetat som dansare för andra konstnärer och koreografer såsom Mette Ingvartsen, Marina Abramovic, Lisa Janbell, Paloma Madrid, Mari Carrasco, Björn Säfsten, Stina Nyberg och Erik Linghede. Mellan åren 2008 och 2016 var hon medlem i P*fect och tillsammans med dem har hon koreograferat en rad shower för föreställningar i olika kontexter, bland annat för Melodifestivalen och Cabaret på Malmö Opera. Under 2015 påbörjade BamBam sitt egna koreografiska arbete och hennes första helaftonsverk SORRY hade premiär under våren 2018. Följt av So Sorry, Lajv Dancing och YES.
BamBam arbetar just nu med att genom koreografi och scenrummets oändliga potential, söka efter och forma förslag på mer emotionellt hållbara och socialt jämlika sätt att existera på individuellt och tillsammans. BamBams arbete är starkt förankrat i samtiden och den koloniala historia som lett oss hit - och hon använder scenrummet som en plats där hon genom koreografiska metoder utvecklade ur lust och njutning, tar sig möjlighet att konstruera förslag på alternativ till de strukturer och system vi verkar inom. För att komma dit insisterar BamBam på fiktion, humor, drömmar och utopier. BamBam vill skapa scenkonst som uppmanar publiken att omvärdera uppfattningen om sig själv och sin samtids potential.
BamBam arbetar just nu med att genom koreografi och scenrummets oändliga potential, söka efter och forma förslag på mer emotionellt hållbara och socialt jämlika sätt att existera på individuellt och tillsammans. BamBams arbete är starkt förankrat i samtiden och den koloniala historia som lett oss hit - och hon använder scenrummet som en plats där hon genom koreografiska metoder utvecklade ur lust och njutning, tar sig möjlighet att konstruera förslag på alternativ till de strukturer och system vi verkar inom. För att komma dit insisterar BamBam på fiktion, humor, drömmar och utopier. BamBam vill skapa scenkonst som uppmanar publiken att omvärdera uppfattningen om sig själv och sin samtids potential.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: ButchFemme AB
ButchFemme AB has ventured into the television industry and have started our own TV-show for political and precarious artists. We will do a wellness exorcism and expel the blonde cultural producers from our body and minds, do community care with DIY-waxing and as custom requires perform a little tap-dance on the grave of hegemonic masculinity. As always told with the Dramaturgy of The Menstrual Circle.
ButchFemme AB - Butcharnas Butch & Antiffa Vänsterfitta aka Valeria Bergmontt & Lasse Långström
Two precarious life artists, too tacky for high art and too homosexual for the people.
The TV-show premiered at Finding Sisterhood Minifestival online, November 2020
ButchFemme AB - Butcharnas Butch & Antiffa Vänsterfitta aka Valeria Bergmontt & Lasse Långström
Two precarious life artists, too tacky for high art and too homosexual for the people.
The TV-show premiered at Finding Sisterhood Minifestival online, November 2020
FINDING SISTERHOOD: HODA ARBABI
I am Hoda Arbabi 37 years old and from Iran, have a background from theater in Iran. Been working for around 8 years in theater as a theater assistant and in theater radio as a playwright.
I have a master of Ibsen studies from Oslo University and I am currently writing my master of Screen Culture.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: J. EL HINDI
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Jafar the Superstar
"The Hami project" by Jafar The Superstar!
Jafar The Superstar is a queer performance artist, tarot reader and diva based in Stockholm.
They’re soon releasing their first sexy EP that promises lots of naughty Persian pop-fusion!
Jafar The Superstar is a queer performance artist, tarot reader and diva based in Stockholm.
They’re soon releasing their first sexy EP that promises lots of naughty Persian pop-fusion!
FINDING SISTERHOOD: KARINA SARKISSOVA
Karina Sarkissova is a Russian-Swedish choreographer based in Stockholm, graduated in 2012 at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam (SNDO) and in 2019 at Dutch Art Institute (DAI). Karina is a cofounder of höjden in Östberga, a house for artistic production. Karina is together with Pontus Petttersson curating the annual festival My Wild Flag. Karina’s practice is dramaturgical and curatorial; she has a podcast called Navegante and is regularly working with other artists' work.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: KHAMLANE HALSACKDA
Khamlane Halsackda (choreographer, performer, director) graduated Rambert School in 1998 and was employed by Richard Alston Dance Company. Since then he has worked for Henri Oguike Dance Company, Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, Glenn Wilkinson, Niklas Laustiola, Alicia Herrero, Bonachela Dance Company, 2007 Bank Project, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Art of Spectra (r&d), Shobana Jayesingh Dance Company, Maresa Von Stockert of Tilted Productions and most recently Nigel Charnock + company. His own dance theatre and social comment based performances are focused on creating discussion and debate around identity and what this could mean. He is a member of Nya Rörelsen (The new movement), a collective of choreographers based in Malmö, Sweden.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: LYDIA ÖSTBERG DIAKITÉ
Lydia Östberg Diakité is an afro-swedish dancer, choreographer and workers union organizer based in Copenhagen. They have been working with many variations of practicing and making dance, performing, activism, community building- and creating together with/ shout out too i.a Bambam Frost, Sonya Lindfors, Tamara Alegre, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Meleat Fredriksson, Adam Seid Tahir, Dance Cooperative CPH, My Wild Flag, POSSE -dancing and reading group. They are working with an intersectional feministic approach, love being influenced by popular culture and feelings, and are practicing how to decolonize the production of art while living in “western” society.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: MARIA NAIDU
Maria Naidu's artistry is deeply rooted in dance and rests on solid craft.
This combined with curiosity, an interest for development and renewal makes her a multifaceted artist.
In her work, Naidu explores the social, emotional and spiritual dimensions that dance can generate. Central themes that have been researched in recent years concern identity, cultural affiliation and ethnicity.
www.marianaidu.com
This combined with curiosity, an interest for development and renewal makes her a multifaceted artist.
In her work, Naidu explores the social, emotional and spiritual dimensions that dance can generate. Central themes that have been researched in recent years concern identity, cultural affiliation and ethnicity.
www.marianaidu.com
FINDING SISTERHOOD: MOA MATILDA SAHLIN
Moa Matilda Sahlin (born 1974 in Gävle, Sweden) reactivates the post contemporary practice theories through a critical exercise of queer femmes development, in her own body and societal corporeality. Her dance classes and choreographic practice insist on art's central role in society. She repetitively invites to the hopeful serpentine roads, towards the ongoing dream of Utopia. MOA kompani, is a proposal to work through choreographic methods in projects, networks, choreographies and conversations.
www.moakompani.se/
www.moakompani.se/
FINDING SISTERHOOD: PALOMA MADRID / YOHANNES FREZGI
*Immortality*
Paloma Madrid with Yohannes Frezgi
I asked Yohannes if he would like to borrow my body and answer the question;
How would the art scene/performance art scene look like if you/we should decide?
He said, yes.
Yohannes Frezgi, storyteller based in Stockholm. Education life "and" Fridhemsfolkhögskolan, Sweden.
Paloma de los Andes-Madrid, choreographer, performer, dancer, educator, poetical body investigator. Propose the body as a medium in constant change. Palomas work are constantly exploring the intersection between collaborative art and social choreography, searching for possibilities of the mind and body to disidentificate beautifully.
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Paloma Madrid with Yohannes Frezgi
I asked Yohannes if he would like to borrow my body and answer the question;
How would the art scene/performance art scene look like if you/we should decide?
He said, yes.
Yohannes Frezgi, storyteller based in Stockholm. Education life "and" Fridhemsfolkhögskolan, Sweden.
Paloma de los Andes-Madrid, choreographer, performer, dancer, educator, poetical body investigator. Propose the body as a medium in constant change. Palomas work are constantly exploring the intersection between collaborative art and social choreography, searching for possibilities of the mind and body to disidentificate beautifully.
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FINDING SISTERHOOD: Paula Chavez
Choreographer, Performance Artist & Activist
Paula Chaves Bonilla is a Colombian artist and activist based in Amsterdam. They have a background in contemporary dance, choreography, theatre and circus and now works as a dance and theatre maker across these disciplines. Their artistic research explores embodiments of denouncement, resistance and disobedience within contexts of censorship and surveillance.
Since 2015 they have been creating a series of works on 'Artwashing' from a feminist queer perspective, which resulted in: Paraart (2015), Against the Wall (2017) and Omni Toxica (2019). Chaves Bonilla is currently a house artist at Veem House for Performance, artist in residency at the Creative Crossroads program within the Life Long Burning dance network and co-founder of Papaya Kuir, an Intersectional feminist collective for & by Trans & Queer Latinx Asylum seekers/Migrant artists in The Netherlands.
www.paulachaves.net
Paula Chaves Bonilla is a Colombian artist and activist based in Amsterdam. They have a background in contemporary dance, choreography, theatre and circus and now works as a dance and theatre maker across these disciplines. Their artistic research explores embodiments of denouncement, resistance and disobedience within contexts of censorship and surveillance.
Since 2015 they have been creating a series of works on 'Artwashing' from a feminist queer perspective, which resulted in: Paraart (2015), Against the Wall (2017) and Omni Toxica (2019). Chaves Bonilla is currently a house artist at Veem House for Performance, artist in residency at the Creative Crossroads program within the Life Long Burning dance network and co-founder of Papaya Kuir, an Intersectional feminist collective for & by Trans & Queer Latinx Asylum seekers/Migrant artists in The Netherlands.
www.paulachaves.net
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Sara Mikolai
Sara Mikolai is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Berlin, of Sri Lankan Tamil-German origin. With a background in the South Indian dance practice Bharatanatyam since 1994 through her mother, today her main artistic mediums are dance, performance and choreography, as well as sound, video, installation. The focus in her work lies on a critical and poetic engagement with epistemologies of dance through decolonial strategies, queer reclamations and ecological reflections, by diving into artistic practice, conversation and research.
Sara graduated in Dance, Context & Choreography at the Interuniversity-Centre for Dance - HZT Berlin, as well as in the MFA in Performing Arts program at the Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik. She further holds a diploma in Bharatanatyam from the Oriental Fine Arts Academy of London. Currently she is engaged in the MPhil in Fine Arts program at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. For her academic studies she receives a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
Sara graduated in Dance, Context & Choreography at the Interuniversity-Centre for Dance - HZT Berlin, as well as in the MFA in Performing Arts program at the Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik. She further holds a diploma in Bharatanatyam from the Oriental Fine Arts Academy of London. Currently she is engaged in the MPhil in Fine Arts program at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. For her academic studies she receives a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Sarah Nakiito
Sarah Nakiito (born in Uganda in 1983) is a visual and performance artist living and working in Malmö, Sweden. Her artistic practice brings together various characters who manifest as shapes, traces and memories into her multi-layered works. Sarah navigates through multiple references and fields of knowledge, from textile and fashion history to the exploration of the art of performance and on how a brown body can navigate through it all.
Most specifically known for her fashion designs and the elaborate African wax prints, Sarah Nakiito’s practice has evolved in recent years into exploring with historical textile traditions, dyeing and printing techniques that span over cultures and group identities, the possibilities of sculpture and installation and decolonial methods for being and creating.
www.sarahnakiito.com
Most specifically known for her fashion designs and the elaborate African wax prints, Sarah Nakiito’s practice has evolved in recent years into exploring with historical textile traditions, dyeing and printing techniques that span over cultures and group identities, the possibilities of sculpture and installation and decolonial methods for being and creating.
www.sarahnakiito.com
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Shirley Harthey Ubilla
“Being trained as a street dancer, the genre is evident in all my work. Yet, over the past few years my focus has shifted, from emphasizing freestyle and traditional expressions within street dance to being influenced by a broader movement practice and various performative contexts”.
Previous work includes her debut solo performance Abject of Desire (2018) where carnal desires where embodied by extensions and dislocations of that which is otherwise despised. She is now currently working with a new solo Yet Familiar (2021) where she continues to discuss race and lesbianism through abjection, but now wants to direct her gaze to a utopian, romantic sci-fi world where all she imagines she could be may take place.
Previous work includes her debut solo performance Abject of Desire (2018) where carnal desires where embodied by extensions and dislocations of that which is otherwise despised. She is now currently working with a new solo Yet Familiar (2021) where she continues to discuss race and lesbianism through abjection, but now wants to direct her gaze to a utopian, romantic sci-fi world where all she imagines she could be may take place.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: TIMIMIE MÄRAK
Timimie lever och andas poesi av kombinationen skog och storstad, betong och fjälluft, rå kärlek och frustration. 2012 nådde den ut med texten - Us Local People - och har sen dess arbetat med konst där det skrivna och talade ordet är främsta verktyg.
Via instagramkontot @timimiemarak droppar Timimie queersamiska sanningar, konst och self love selfies.
Via instagramkontot @timimiemarak droppar Timimie queersamiska sanningar, konst och self love selfies.
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Tom of Tottenham
Tom of Tottenham (he & they)
A Black-british Queer Trans Leather Daddy.
An activist, artist, organiser and producer.
A lover and a fighter.
www.tomoftottenham.com
A Black-british Queer Trans Leather Daddy.
An activist, artist, organiser and producer.
A lover and a fighter.
www.tomoftottenham.com
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Vishnu Vardhani Rajan
Vishnu Vardhani Rajan (b.Hyderabad, India) is a Body-Philosopher and Performance Artist based in Helsinki. A hyphenated identity, multidisciplinary practices, building connections between art, science, witchcraft, history and cultures define her. Vishnu explores shame, through dance, acting and stand-up comedy. Vishnu's persona Vamp Master Brown is the first Indian Drag King in Helsinki. She intends to blend her love of Cinema and passion for filmmaking with her ongoing practices, to achieve a new language in storytelling.
FINDING SISTERHOOD:
Zafire Vrba
“Trans People Applauding”
Zafire Vrba is a Swedish-Czech artist, curator and educator based in Stockholm. Zafire works with digital media, performance, video, sounds and textiles. Their work explores kinship, queer history, contemporary archeology and trans perspectives.
www.zafirevrba.com
Zafire Vrba is a Swedish-Czech artist, curator and educator based in Stockholm. Zafire works with digital media, performance, video, sounds and textiles. Their work explores kinship, queer history, contemporary archeology and trans perspectives.
www.zafirevrba.com
FINDING SISTERHOOD: Zwoisy Mears-Clarke
Zwoisy Mears-Clarke: "I am a choreographer of the encounter. My personal immigration background –– from Jamaica to the United States, and from the United States to Germany –– sensitized me to the many social structures that fracture and alienate people from one another. What is it that’s blocking us from meeting one another as we actually are? I use the expanded potentiality of the choreographic space to confront the forms of oppression that sabotage human interaction both structurally and interpersonally. Dance offers us temporary environments that can suspend the everyday duress of racism, colonial nostalgia, nationalism and prejudice, creating opportunities to move differently. Through choreography, I desire to open encounters that might otherwise seem unreachable."
www.zwoisymearsclarke.com
www.zwoisymearsclarke.com