Artists in residence

Marcus Lindeen is a Swedish artist, writer and director. His latest play is called The Invisible Adventure and premiered at Théâtre de Gennevilliers in October 2020 as part of Festival d’Automne of Paris. The year before he made Wild Minds at the same theater. 

His feature documentary film The Raft premiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen in 2018 where it won the main award. The Raft has since been shown in over fifty festivals (IDFA, BFI London, Zürich, Melbourne, Sao Paolo, Moscow) and was theatrically released in eleven countries, among them France, Mexico, the UK and the US. The film became a New York Times Critic’s Pick and was broadcasted on BBC Storyville. In 2019 it won the Prix Europa for Best European Television Documentary.

The same prize was awarded to Marcus Lindeen’s debut film Regretters in 2011. Regretters is both a theater play and a documentary film about two Swedish men who change their sex twice. The play has been translated into several languages and the film went on to win numerous festival awards. In 2011, his second film Accidentes Gloriosos premiered at The Venice Film Festival where it won the prize for best medium-length film in the Orizzonti section.

In 2017, the scenography used in The Raft was exhibited as an art installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Marcus lives between Paris and Stockholm, where he is also pursuing a PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts, exploring the subject of ”The Staged Documentary” through an artistic film project consisting of a trilogy of studio based documentaries.

Adam Linder was born in Sydney, Australia in 1983. He lives and works between Los Angeles and Berlin. Adam Linder is a dancer and choreographer. His works are often presented in theatre and exhibition contexts; in which text, costuming, sound production and film are all considered part of his role as choreographer.

The years of Rudolf Nureyev’s direction of the Paris Opera Ballet will be the main focus of Adam Linder’s residency in Paris. Adam Linder will dig into historical archives, whilst also speaking to former associates of the Opera during this period. Through this field work he will try and understand the spirit that characterized this 80s moment in ballet, when younger choreographers were responding with a playful (post-) modernizing of the form with Nureyev’s decline from AIDs in the background of this illuminating era. With this research, Adam Linder will be inspired to build material for a new ballet that reflects the times we are in today by retaining an umbilical cord to the formal ruptures of the past.

Sonya Lindfors is a Helsinki-based artist who works in the fields of choreography, animation, community organization and education. She is a founding member and artistic director of UrbanApa, an interdisciplinary and counter-hegemonic arts community that provides a platform for new feminist artistic discourses and practices. UrbanApa hosts workshops, festivals, laboratories and “dream sessions”. UrbanApa’s second publication, Blackness & the Postmodern, which was prepared and edited by Sonya Lindfors, was released on 15 May 2018.

Sonya Lindfors’ recent series of scenic works BLACK? (2013), NOBLE SAVAGE (2016), With Josephine (2017), We Should All Be Dreaming (2018) and COSMIC LATTE (2018) focuses on black and otherness, blackbody politics, representation and the radical utopian dream. Lindfors is interested in creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms. A festival, show, publication or workshop can function as a radical collective dream place.

In 2013, UrbanApa – community received the State Prize for Performing Arts. In 2017, Lindfors received the Artist of the Year Award – Helsinki City Council Award and the Tinfo Award – for her work on creating new discourses around black and otherness. In 2018, Lindfors received the International ANTIprize Award. During the 2017-2018 season Lindfors was the choreographer of the Zodiak house – centre for new dance.