Linn Hilda Lamberg is the artistic director of Poste Restante (together with Stefan Åkesson 2007-2015 and Erik Berg 2010-2015). Since Poste Restante was formed in 2007, the performance company has paved the way for new relations between performance works and it’s audiences. In their peculiar performances they aim to create space for each visitor to explore complex questions and dilemmas in a concrete way. The performances are interactive and immersive and take the form of unexpected but honest running activities, such as a telephone help-line for the politically downhearted (Closing Time) or a secret society that aims to create a new, egalitarian order. Since the start Poste Restante has often returned to questions related to co-existence, shame and acceptance. The individual visitor holds the position of being the main character as well as the final receiver. By making space for the individual traits of each visitor, attribute each experience equal authority and hand over the precedence of interpretation of the problem (and possible solution) of the performance, Poste Restante aims to work for a norm critical and intersectional view of audience work, representation and performance art. Linn Hilda is admitted to Stockholm University of the Arts to do her PhD spring 2019.
Benjamin Quingley is a maker and performer of music, theatre and performance based in Stockholm. He studied BA in music at Malmö College of Music and MA in post-dramatic theatre at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. His practice consists in experimenting on himself – and sometimes on other people – in order to find relations between artistic ideas and audiences that differ from the ones we already know. He spent many years touring extensively worldwide with his artpunk-band DELTAHEAD as well as other experimental music acts. As a maker, he has created a number of works with the collective GLQ (GomesLechQuigley). As a performer, Quigley has worked with Reich/Szyber, Lundahl & Seitl, Marina Abramovic and many others. And – for quite a few years now – he has performed in the works of Poste Restante.