Sonya Lindfors & working group: Living in Color / In Living Color

Sonya Lindfors and her working group’s work-in-progress Living in Color / In Living Color will be shown as part of the Invisible Race exhibition. The performance invites the viewers to think about the urgent, unsettled question: What does it mean to be “of color”?

The performances will be held at the museum and will last approximately 20 minutes. Admission with the museum entrance fee or with a Museum Card.

The sharing is a series of performative actions and interventions that transform and evolve with each presentation. By weaving together traces of past works with new performative experiments, the working group opens a collective space where ghosts are summoned and portals opened. The work is an invitation to remain with the discomfort of racialization while moving towards futures that imagine Blackness as processes of becoming—fluid, multiple, and ever-expanding. A decolonial and speculative practice where Blackness can be dreamt and re-dreamt.

For more than a decade, Sonya Lindfors has been working with the thematics of Blackness and Black body politics, interrogating questions of power and representation both on and off stage, while actively practicing imagining further. Living in Color / In Living Color is the beginning of a larger body of works under the title Black & Blue.

Performances:
• Wed 22 October at 6 p.m.
• Fri 24 October at 6 p.m.
• Sat 25 October at 3 p.m. + artist talk
• Sun 26 October at 3 p.m.

Duration: ca. 20 minutes
Admission with museum admission ticket or Museum Card.

Working group: Maele Sabuni, Benson A’kuyie, Jussi Matikainen and Sonya Lindfors
Production: UTT ry