The symposium Non-Orientable Surfaces that will take place as part of ‘Songs of a melting iceberg – Displaced without moving’ will ask questions about the construction of identities, the concept of culture and physical and mental displacement. The festival will bring artistic voices from the Nordic countries and the African continent together and present their possible future visions and strategies of decolonialisation. The symposium will investigate critical concepts like cultures, nationalities and identity constructions, which are categorised by ‘race’, ‘gender’ and ‘class’, and will attempt to seek out ways of thinking that resist this without ideologically loaded prerequisites. The aim is to break through colonialist patterns of thinking and to find new terminology in the sense of an open language not stigmatised by global
positions of power. It will also seek to encourage self-reflection on the part of the audience and the artists, to identify their own incarnated positions and question the ‘white’, ‘Western’ view.

Shamanism and Ecology – 10. November

Moderation: Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Christine Fentz (Denmark) is a performing artist, dramaturge, and Artistic Director of Secret Hotel, which specializes in relational and interdisciplinary work.

Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana) is an artist who lives and works in Tamale. His work has been including the 56 Venice Biennale and documenta 14, Athens and Kassel.

Lana Hansen (Greenland) is an artist and writer from Greenland, her focus is on the climate change in Greenland.