Seminar: On inclusivity
How to start diversifying the Danish art field?
6.2.20
6.2.20
16:30 - 18:30
The seminar is free and open to all, to reserve your seat email naja@hautscene.dk
The seminar
Who are presented, exhibited, performing, working at our art institutions? Who is here and who is not here?
The Danish art field is still, in 2020, surprisingly homogenic and white. As a cultural institution that understands the urgency of diversifying our art field HAUT still lacks the tools and language to talk about issues around inclusion, whiteness, structural racism. Now is the time to start practicing having these uncomfortable but vital discussions. HAUT has invited Helsinki-based artistic director Sonya Lindfors to share concrete tools and practices.
Participants
Sonya Lindfors is a choreographer that works with curating, facilitating, community organizing and education. 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.
In all her work Lindfors deals with issues of power, structures, representation and othering. Her recent projects WE SHOULD ALL BE DREAMING (2018) and COSMIC LATTE (2018) centralize questions around decolonial dreaming, feminist practices and black body politics. Lindfors has been awarded with several prizes, the latest of which being the international Live art Anti Prize 2018
www.sonyalindfors.com
www.urbanapa.fi
Sonya Lindfors
Sonya Lindfors is an awardwinning Cameroonian/Finnish choreographer and artistic director who also works in facilitation, community organizing, and education. Lindfors’ recent works - One Drop (2023), common moves (2023), We Should All Be Dreaming, camouflage (2021), and Soft Variations Online (2020) - focus on questions of Blackness and Black body politics, representation and power structures, speculative futurities, and decolonial dreaming practices.On a broader scale, Lindfors divides her time between her own artistic work, educational initiatives, and her role as the artistic director of UrbanApa. In all her positions, she is dedicated to creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, performance, publication, or workshop can serve as a site for empowerment and radical collective dreaming.
The format
Seminar