Sonia Hughes

Lustholmen: I AM FROM REYKJAVIK

I AM FROM REYKJAVIK

Photo: Solomon Hughes

Fr 9.6.2023, 11:00-18:00, Outdoors, by the bridge Skeppsholmsbron – on the left-hand side as you arrive onto the island

Free admission

Part-protest, part-sculpture, part-ceremony.

Sonia Hughes will arrive in Stockholm to see how it is here. To see if she could feel at ease and at home amongst us. She’s wondering how it is to feel at home when this is not where you are from. How to allow her whole self to be present without compromise or apology? Is Stockholm welcoming or a hostile environment?

She arrives with all the things she needs to build herself a shelter. She’ll build and take it down in a day. You can witness how Sonia and Stockholm get on.

Someday we may all have to move. How will that go?

"I AM FROM REYKJAVIK" is presented in collaboration with ArkDes.

Sonia Hughes

Sonia is currently Associate Artist to Festspillene i Nord-Norge in Harstad. Previously she collaborated with Quarantine as writer, performer, co-creator including their award-winning Susan & Darren and Wallflower. She also wrote Jeremy Deller’s MIF17 opening event, What is the City, but the People? She has been doing this art shbizzle for over 20 years only now becoming an artist in her own right. What do we want?!... Is a poster exhibition of people’s desires for a proximate Utopia, made for the Great Exhibition of the North with Lisa Mattocks. Jo Fong and Sonia’s project Neither Here Nor There delves into where people live, what makes them cross, what they can do and in the end what really matters. Essentially a series of questions and conversations between the Audience. These two works and IAFR mark out new territories Sonia is interested in – addressing the complexity of big ideas but close up with an active co-creative audience.

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Architect

Lee Ivett

Photographer

Solomon Hughes

Website designer

Lisa Mattocks

Film maker

Juliet Ellis

Dress designer

Claudette Joseph

Tea cups

Susan Cragg

Artist midwives

Linda Brogan, Adeola Dewis, Juliet Ellis, Jo Fong, Rabab Ghazoul, Owen Griffiths, Jane Mason, Humberto Velez, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Fiona Wright

Production Manager

Greg Akehurst/Rob Athorn

Producer

Richard Morgan

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