Program
Adam Seid Tahir | Creative Crossroad Cycle 1
Adam Seid Tahir
Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology. They’re conducting this research as both a longer research project and the starting point for their new work ”artifact” (working title).
In this research they’re diving into the creation of fictive artifacts from a queer Afro-Nordic folklore.
Adam is interested in the idea of the time capsule: the deliberate practice of leaving something behind for the future. The process of archiving an experience or wish. Adam is interested in the time capsule as a method for story-telling, as well as the political considerations of what to leave behind and how. This stands in stark contrast to the often violent and colonial methods of extraction that haracterizes much of the tradition of archaeology. In their research so far Adam has worked with metal etching and somatic excavation. Now at Veem, Adam is interested in exploring methods for printing on hair and looking at the history of runes and their connection to the Vikings’ contact with northern Africa.
On September 28 Adam will present part of their research in the studio of Veem at 20.00h.
This presentation comes with a small dinner, brought to you by Moha, for which we charge a small fee of €5.oo.
This public presentation is part of the Creative Crossroad Cycle 1.
Update! The presentation starts at 19:00h.
28 September 2024
19:00 — 21:30
€ 5.00
Pre-performance Dinner Ticket
About Adam
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.
Adam uses speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centers their work around creating loud and immersive black queer fiction. They are interested in mythological figures, daydreaming and crafting affective machines. These interests often intersect through water, where they take the shape of sirens, waterfalls and submerged transatlantic communication cables.
In their latest works Adam keeps returning to the practice of braiding hair. Both its traditional meaning with its ancestral social traditions and through the expanded idea of braiding as a method for working together. In the latter notion Adam has recently collaborated with Amina Seid Tahir and the collective EMBRACE (consisting of Lydia Östberg Diakité, Meleat Fredriksson and
themself).
They have presented their work in contexts including: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE), MDT (SE), Kampnagel Summer Festival (DE), Rakete Festival @Tanzquartier (AT), New Sh*t @ Dansehallerne (DK), Emergentia (CH), Batard (BE), My Wild Flag (SE) and Dubrovnik Summer Festival (HR). They have worked with other artists including: Bambam Frost, Pontus Pettersson, Frederic Gies, Meleat Fredriksson, Lydia Östberg Diakité, Amina Seid Tahir and Paloma Madrid.
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).
Website: adamseidtahir.xyz
Credits
Choreographer/performer: Adam Seid Tahir
Producers: Johnson & Bergsmark
Research support by: The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Helge Ax:son
Johnsons stiftelse and Creative Crossroads.
This research is the starting point of the production ”artifact” that is co-produced by MDT, Sophiensæle, Centrale Fies, TOU Scene, Dansens Hus and supported by The Swedish Arts Council.
