Villa Karo Artist in Residence
Heidi Seppälä has been accepted for Villa Karo’s artist residence in Grand Popo, Benin, Africa from Jan2 until March25. Together with theatre director and writer Jalmari Nummiluikki, Heidi will be working on the context of DANCO – School for De-Colonizing the Art of Dance. Heidi is also creating and mentoring a workshop for development of […]
Nordic Summer University’s Artistic Research Conference: Experiencing Artistic Research Through the Senses.
Together with Dr. Marina Velez, Heidi Seppälä is organising an artistic research conference for Nordic Summer University’s Summer Symposium 2022 in Oslo, Norway 27.7-4.8.2022. The theme of the conference is Experiencing Artistic Research Through the Senses. During this symposium an international, carefully selected group of artist researchers will be investigating phenomenology (empirical research, direct experience) […]
Impressions from artistic research symposium in Viesu nams Lauciņi, Lāde, Latvia.
Together with Dr. Marina Velez, Heidi Seppälä organised an artistic research symposium under Nordic Summer University’s Circle 7. In April 2022, due to unforeseen circumstances, Heidi was running a symposium on her own for a carefully selected group of artist researchers. The theme of the weekend was the experiential processes in artistic practice. This symposium […]
Patterns of Masculinity – workshop in Lagos Centre for Contemporary Art
Made possible by funding of TAIKE and Nordic Culture Fund, DANCO – School of Decolonizing the Art of Dance members Heidi Seppälä, Jalmari Nummiluikki and Emmanuel Ndefo have been working in Grand Popo, Benin, and Lagos, Nigeria, in order to create and run a workshop weekend Narratives of Masculinity, Power and Queerness in Afro-Nordic Space […]