Seid Tahir is interested in Norse mythological figures, daydreaming and crafting affective machines and their artistic practice moves interdisciplinarily around choreography. In recent years they have been interested in creating a queer Afro-Nordic folklore and runology. In their practice, the many-layered mythologies of their Nordic home country is diffracted through the lens of a queer and Black diasporic perspective, with a clear attempt to re-envision what these stories might mean today.

Questions of home and belonging are central to Seid Tahir’s performative investigations. Here, world-building and fictioning becomes tools for them as an artist to offer alternatives, not utopias but rather a parallel and simultaneous reading of the myths and stories they work with. Critique of social constructions and a wish to create resistance, question and distort different subjects and realities are elemental to Seid Tahir’s work. Another significant aspect of their work is that it draws upon a fictive and somatic based movement practice. This means that it focuses on sensory and imagination based scores, where the body is felt but ceases to exist primarily through anatomical understandings. Instead, they work with projecting fantasies onto the performing body and space, through specific written and/or felt scores, to re-imagine and reconstruct the body, the stage and the world.

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