Uutiskirje 3/2019

Sonya Lindfors Returns to Kuopio

1.-7.4.2019
Galleria Ars Libera | Suokatu 30, Kuopio

The winner of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art Award 2018, Sonya Lindfors, returns to Kuopio as she will start working on her piece for ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2019 with a gallery residence in Galleria Ars Libera 1.-7.4.2019. Lindfors is working on a process-like piece, and during her gallery week, titled SOFT LANDINGS, she aims to descend softly into the context of the upcoming work.

Lindfors begins her exploration of the field in Kuopio through encounters: Her idea is to facilitate soft encounters in various forms. According to Lindfors, her agenda is to empower and energize, make room for voices and narrations that are not usually able to be present, and to shake and wobble hegemony. Lindfors is working in Gallery Ars Libera together with dance artist Esete Sutinen 1.-3.4.2019, after which the exhibition will continue until 7.4.

Sonya Lindfors is a Helsinki based artist who works with choreography, community activism and teaching. She is a founding member and artistic director of the UrbanApa art community. UrbanApa is a multidisciplinary community that questions power structures, provides growth platforms for new discourses and feminist artistic practices. In her work, Lindfors problematizes power, existing structures, ways of repetition, and othering. Her series of stage performances; NOIR? (2013), NOBLE SAVAGE (2016) and COSMIC LATTE (2018), focus on issues related to blackness, black body, race and representation. Lindfors wants to create and facilitate anti-racist, feminist platforms in which a festival, performance, publication or workshop can act as a tool for radical, communal dreaming.

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