The evening brings together a live reading by Nayara Leite and a dance by alphie hubbard, followed by a conversation between duo Nayara Leite & Kaeto Sweeney moderated by Lara Okafor. The conversation explores the duo’s practice through their latest work, Songs for, and their interest in art and music as forms of resistance.
“Give me a human drama. The personal is so political.”
This lyric from Human Drama (Planningtorock, 2013) encapsulates the core of Nayara Leite & Kaeto Sweeney’s latest work Songs for. Together, they explore how intimate, embodied experience becomes politicised within contemporary media landscapes shaped by the global rise of far right-wing governments. The duo transforms the gallery room into an audiovisual space where song and music function as both narrative and acts of resistance.
Read more about the exhibition here.
The event is free and open for all.
Nayara Leite & Kaeto Sweeney are two Bergen-based artists working together as a duo across film, sound art, and text-based installations. Their individual practices converge in a shared investigation of freedom of speech as a human right, and of the tensions within this concept – particularly how it can be mobilised to protect those who use hate speech. Establishing and empowering queer lived experiences is central to their artistic work. Their duo work has been exhibited at NITJA and Lydgalleriet.
Lara Okafor (they/them) is a writer, editor, technologist, and organiser using different hats to try and practise better worlds. They have been a facilitator and/or curator of many happenings, usually situated somewhere in the crossroads between Black life, art, abolition, speculative fiction, queerness, and technology.
alphie hubbard works across disciplines to explore the fluidity of relationships to the self and the body through a queer and transgender lens. Their research focuses on the culturally and historically specific contexts that continue to shape our contemporary understandings of gender, representation and desire. They tell the personal stories within these political phenomena through installation, sculpture, drawing, text, video, performance and drag.
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