Sonya Lindfors & Pilvi Porkola: Political Imagination & Decolonial Dreaming

Tässä työpajassa Sonya Lindfors ja Pilvi Porkola kutsuvat osallistujat harjoittelemaan mahdollisten ja mahdottomien tulevaisuuksien kuvittelua erilaisten harjoitteiden ja keskustelun kautta. Työpajan tavoitteena on kartoittaa kollektiivisen radikaalin unelmoinnin mahdollisuuksia kriisien täyteisessä ajassa.

In this workshop, Sonya Lindfors and Pilvi Porkola invite participants to practice imagining possible and impossible futures through various exercises and discussions. The aim of the workshop is to explore the possibilities of collective radical dreaming in a time filled with crises.

This workshop is in ENG / FI (depending on participants).

Pilvi Porkola is Helsinki based performance artist, writer and researcher. She is interested in everyday life performances and utopia. In her current research at Uniarts Helsinki she explores performance and politics of art pedagogy.

Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and the artistic director of UrbanApa arts community. Lindfors also works with facilitating, curating, community organizing and education. In her most recent works, she has been researching decolonial, intersectional and speculative practices. In all her positions she pursues creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, a performance, a publication or a workshop can operate as the site of empowerment and radical collective dreaming.