Residency Adam Seid Tahir

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