A shared meal at PRAKSIS during the residency Together in Labour previous this year. Photo: PRAKSIS
Held in English | Free and open to all | No step free access
Are you interested in access, language and how cultural institutions can change? Join us for a small lunch gathering at PRAKSIS as artists in residence Sabīne Šnē (LV) and Anastasia (A) Alevtin (FI) introduce their practices, followed by a shared conversation.
Until 15 December, the artists are working alongside each other, exploring ideas relating to language, access, learning and institutional change as part of the Opening Doors residency. Their research and practices embrace exchange, public dialogue and engagement with young people. Over the residency, they’ve worked closely with our youth group PTAB and taken part in the Symposium: In Our Own Words at the Nordic Youth Conference at Nitja.
The food will be vegan. Please tell us about any other allergies when you sign up by Monday 2 November. Sign up link here. We hope to see you there!
Sabīne Šnē (she) is a Latvian visual artist and educator who explores relationships between humans and the more-than-human, focusing on how organisms and elements sustain life on Earth and how they are affected by resource exploitation and extraction. Her work spans moving image, sound, sculpture, creative writing and drawing. Curiosity about living beings and care for them continue to shape her creative process, alongside an urge to emphasise how deeply interconnected our lives are, and how ecology is inseparable from political, social and economic systems.
Anastasia (A) Alevtin (they/them) is a Helsinki-based transdisciplinary artist and researcher who reads, scripts, records, screens, performs, programs, and publishes for more liveable—queercrip and migrant/migratised—ordinary worlds. Their work inquires into fleeting doings-in-common and stubborn practices of nonapparent subversion improvised against disabling and debilitating norms and is shaped by an ecological perspective. With a background in crip, queer, feminist theory and recently retraining in screenwriting, Alevtin conspires with brilliant bodily ambivalences and their queercrip sensorium to tell small stories of small (yet world-shifting!) affects. They work in sticky affinities with words and their fragments and are enchanted by how some bodies move some texts. They hold dear one-on-one performances, performance lectures, short and slow (what a paradox!) video works, independent publishing and collective learning.
Taking place during PRAKSIS’ 10th anniversary year, the residency builds on PRAKSIS’ experience of thematic group programmes, testing the potential of bringing two practitioners into dialogue over an extended period of time.
The residency connects with PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board and the project Opening Doors, which develops youth-led methods for investigating and improving cultural access. The programme asks how young people experience cultural institutions, what barriers they encounter, and how their perspectives can inform real institutional change.
The residency is made possible by support from Nordic Culture Point.
