Residency sharing
and from their hair, unending forest
by Adam Seid Tahir
About the artist and residency sharing
Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is one of the artists the festival has collaborated with under our project: Artists to shape the future with. Adam has previously visited the festival with the performance several attempts at braiding my way home. This year they are our artist in residence, and we will see an early working presentation of Adam's next performance work in the rooms at Galleri Kobbel. Welcome!
Illustration by Kenshiro Caravaggio Carena
Date: 20 Juni
Time: 16.00
Venue: Galleri Kobbel
Duration: about 30 minutes
Suitable for: youth and grown ups
Ticket price: 50 kr
Tickets coming soon
Performance text
“and from their hair, unending forest” departs from the rune Thurisaz (ᚦ), which is associated with giants, beings who, in Norse mythology, are cast as enemies of the gods and linked to chaos, threat, and otherness. Adam Seid Tahir examines these attributions and draws parallels to the marginalization of Black people. At the center is the figure of Ymir, an intersex being who, according to myth, was murdered and from whose body the world emerged.
Through the geography of death, afterlife, and the non-linearity of time, the stage becomes a world of transformation: a place where the body becomes weather, where hair becomes unending forests, where anger, sadness, and grief intertwine.
“and from their hair, unending forest” invites the audience into an atmospheric world of myth and legend.
CREDITS
Choreography, Performance: Adam Seid Tahir
Sound Design: Tati au Miel
Lighting Design: Jonatan Winbo
Dramaturgy: Lydia Östberg Diakité
Producers: Johnson & Bergsmark
Co-produced by: Kampnagel International Summer Festival, MDT, Rosendal Teater, Norrlandsoperan
Supported by: The City of Stockholm, The Nordic Culture Fund, Inkonst, MARC, HAUT, Ravnedans
Photo by Sharrat Cherry.