Photography: Louise Helmfrid and Gärigheter. Visible people: Amina and Adam Seid Tahir
Artists:
Adam Seid Tahir and Amina Seid Tahir
in conversation with Runa Borch Skolseg.
All festival goers get a 10% discount at Spiregården!
Every day we will facilitate a conversation with an artist at the festival. The conversations take place at the wonderful backyard of Spiregården, and is free and open to anyone!
Organised in collaboration with Scenekunst Sør.
Amina Seid Tahir (She/Her) is a Swedish-Eritrean artist and choreographer based in Stockholm/London. Her work is rooted in themes around resting and dreaming within the global majority community and grows through mediums such as sound, braiding, vibration, installation and performance. Braiding together her interests in ancestral knowledge with oral traditions and myths, she creates a universe between reality and fiction. Manifesting spaces where dreams can work like seeds to grow futures.
Currently she is studying fine art at Konstfack(SE) and Chelsea College of Art(UK). She has presented work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023 (BE), New Sh*t @ Dansehallerne 2022 (DK), Emergentia 2022 (CH), Batard 2022 (BE), Botkyrka Konsthall 2022 (SE) and My Wild Flag 2021 (SE). Amina’s work is grounded in community and would not be possible without the conversations or collaborations with her communities, including people as: Ailin Mirlashari, Are Karim, Rebecca Beyene, Lina Alarabi, Adam Seid Tahir, Nora Seid Tahir, Sara Rad, Dina Said and many many more.
Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist. Their two roles involve crafting performative work and designing/developing websites. These practices also merge and expand into writing texts, making video installations, 3D animation and crafting sensor-based instruments.
They have presented their work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023 (BE), New Sh*t @ Dansehallerne 2022 (DK), Emergentia 2022 (CH), Batard 2022 (BE), My Wild Flag 2021 (SE) and Dubrovnik Summer Festival 2020 (HR). They have worked with other artists including: Bambam Frost, Pontus Pettersson, Frederic Gies, Theo Clinkard, Samlingen, Meleat Fredriksson, Lydia Östberg Diakité, Amina Seid Tahir, Paloma Madrid, Eleanor Bauer, Zoë Poluch and Michael Keegan-Dolan. They have studied courses and programs including: Decolonial strategies within art and activism @ Uniarts (SE), Aesthetics @ LTU (SE), Programming for Artists @ Konstfack (SE), Ballet Junior de Geneve (CH) and Royal Swedish Ballet School (SE).
Runa Borch Skolseg is a playwright, author and critic. She holds an MA from Oslo National Academy of Arts (KHiO) and runs Dionysian Corporation alongside costume deisgner Fredrik Floen. She has worked for Mette Edvardsen, Verk produksjoner, Ingvild Holm amongst others, and was associated artist at Black Box Theatre as part of the interdisciplinary collective Carrie. She is resident playwright at Dramatikkens Hus in 2022-2023 and publishes the novel Renessansefeminin Horror at Kolon Forlag in autumn 2023.
