Creative Crossroads Cycle One 2023–2024
Adam Seid Tahir
Adam Seid Tahir (they/them) is a choreographer and creative technologist. Their two roles involve crafting performative work, coding websites, making video installations and crafting sensor-based instruments. Adam uses speculative imagination as a tool of resistance and centers their work around creating loud immersive black queer fiction. They are interested in mythological beings, daydreaming and crafting affective machines. These interests often intersect through water, where they take the shape of sirens, waterfalls and submerged transatlantic communication cables.
During the next years Adam will continue to tour their and Amina Seid Tahir’s piece several attempts at braiding my way home. Showing this year at Ravnedans and Kampnagel Summer Festival.
In 2024 they will be making a new work EMBRACE together with their collective Embrace (Lydia Östberg Diakité, Meleat Fredriksson and themself). Here they will work with the braid and braiding as a social practice to care and heal within chosen and blood families. Premiere May 2024. In the next 2 years Adam will be developing another piece siren where they’ll dive into myths about sirens, näcken and the mermaid. Stories about beings that lure with sound. Adam is interested in the performativity of seduction and creating time-space portals through music. They’ll be creating 2 musical instruments that will be part of a longer research into combining their choreographic and creative technologist practices. Premiere May 2025.
Adam at Veem House Amsterdam
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 characterizes 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 28 September Adam will present part of their research in the studio of Veem at 19:00.
Showing by Adam Seid Tahir in Budapest
Adam Seid Tahir is coming back to Budapest for a work-in-progress-showing. They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology which had been developed during their residencies in Budapest, Vienna and Amsterdam this summer.
Showing by Adam Seid Tahir in Amsterdam
Adam Seid Tahir is finishing their residency at Veem House Amsterdam with a showing. They will share some early fragments from their ongoing research on fictive archaeology which had been developed during their residencies in Budapest, Vienna and Amsterdam this summer.
Adam Seid Tahir at Veem House
Adam Seid Tahir, our Creative Crossroads artist from Stockholm, is in residence in Amsterdam! They 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).
Network Meeting at Festival Programme Commun
This weekend Festival Programme Commun is kicking off in Lausanne! Apart from a vivid performance programme Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Ysaline Rochat.
Showing: several attempts at braiding my way home
Creative Crossroads artist Adam Seid Tahir is showing their work several attempts at braiding my way home, which they developed together with their sister Amina Seid Tahir, at MDT Stockholm. Shifting between labour and speculative proposals several attempts at braiding my way home insists on fiction as a tool for quaking potential and finding opportunities for recovery and belonging. The performance swims alongside Clymene dolphins, who defy understandings of heritage. It listens to walruses who trust their hair for navigation.