PERSPECTIVES ON complex complicities
- towards antiracist feminist stages.
Format: PERSPECTIVES ON
Genre: A knowledge-sharing format (e.g. seminar),
which is based on what knowledge we need right now,
so that the art, the artists and the performing arts field can develop.
The seminar takes place at
Teaterøen, Refshalevej 320, Refshaleøen, 1432 Kbh. K
(in the room 'Hvide Annekssal', with level-free access. Toilet is on the ground floor, but has unfortunately not level-free access, as it has one step up).
Dates:
14.-15.11.2022
Time:
13:00 - 17:00
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The seminar
PERSPECTIVES ON complex complicities – towards antiracist feminist stages
A collaboration between UrbanApa and HAUT as part of BRIDGES 2022
Complex complicities is a small but very important step towards creating Nordic discourse about antiracist and feminist practices in Nordic contemporary stages. Helsinki-based antiracist and feminist arts community UrbanApa joins HAUT in creating a 2 day seminar in Copenhagen with the theme Complex Complicities – towards antiracist feminist stages.
Monday 14th of November | “HOW TO CHANGE THINGS”
How to Change Things? |Keynote speaker: Abdul Dube
Panel discussion: Intersectionality in practice! - navigating the complexity | Facilitated by Malik Grosos
Panelistists : Oriane Paras /Dance.cooperative, Marie Kaae & Julienne Doko
Roundtable discussions: How to work together | Facilitated by Sonya Lindfors
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Tuesday 15th of November | “TOWARDS INTERSECTIONAL HORIZONS”
The conditions of dreaming: cultural politics, separatism, and the issue of being 'too many' | Keynote speakers: Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt & Anna Meera Gaonkar
Panel discussion: What's next? – complicitness and the power of imagination | Facilitated by Kai Merke
Panelistists : Yong Sun Gullach, Vala T. Foltyn, Jupiter Child
Roundtable discussions: Dreaming session - speculation and institutional dreaming | Facilitated by Sonya Lindfors
The seminar is free but signup is required. You can signup here.
The team behind the seminar
Complex complicities is a small but very important step towards creating Nordic discourse about antiracist and feminist practices in Nordic contemporary stages. Helsinki-based antiracist and feminist arts community UrbanApa joins HAUT in creating a 2 day seminar in Copenhagen with the theme Complex Complicities – towards antiracist feminist stages.
Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian - Finnish choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. In 2013 she received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki.
She is the founding member and Artistic Director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and feminist art practices. UrbanApa facilitates workshops, festivals, labs, mentoring and publications among other things.
Currently Lindfors is busy with decolonial and intersectionally feminist work and speculative practices. Lindfors has been awarded with several prizes, the latest of which being the State Price of public information in fall 2022.
Complex Complicities is a part of BRIDGES, a project designed to strengthen sustainable and long-term Nordic collaboration in the realms of antiracist and intersectionally feminist practices. The project is funded by Nordic Culture Point and produced by UrbanApa arts platform based in Helsinki.
The seminar is supported and hosted by HAUT, a performing arts organization based in Copenhagen.
Keynote speakers, facilitators and panelists:
Cecillie Ullerup Schmidt
performance artist, curator and theorist
Photo: Kajsa Gullberg
Anna Meera Gaonkar
PhD from University of Copenhagen
Photo: Anna Meera Gaonkar
Malik Grosos (he/him)
multidisciplinary working with visual arts, performance, acting.
Photo: Malik Grosos
Kai Merke (they)
facilitator/organizer of events, workshops etc.
within the performing arts field & consider facilitation
as part of their artistic practice.
Photo: Morten Arnfred
Yong Sun Gullach
Korean-Danish artist & activitst operation at the boundaries of
performance, poetry, film, music, noise & installation art.
Photo: Marco Grimnitz
Vala T. Foltyn
performance & installation artist, queer witch
art researcher
Photo: Johanna Lamprecht
Julia Machindano (her/their),
artist name Jupiter Child
performance & visual artist from Mozambique
Oriane Paras
artist based in Copenhagen, working with dance
& physical performance-installation.
Photo: Palle Schultz
Julienne Doko
French dance performer, teacher & choreographer
with roots in Central African Republic
Photo: Ave Maria Nielsen
Abdul Dube (he/they)
multidisciplinary artist, designer, curator &
workshop facilitator.
Marie Kaae
dancer & choreograph, degree in culture/language studies, International Development
Studies (RUC) & Sociology fra La Sorbonne (Paris)