Sex and Tornedalen - Sunday Talks
Su 16.3.2025, 16:00-17:00, MDT
After the performance on Sunday the 16th of March 2025, as part of MDT’s Off Stage program, Sex and Tornedalen invites three speakers to present individual reflections in relation to the work. In English.
Invited speakers:
Lena Ylipää, artist.
Liz Kinoshita, dancer and choreographer.
Robert Jacobsson, social worker and sexologist.
Lena Ylipää resides in Lainio, in the eastern part of the municipality of Kiruna. She moved back after she finished her studies at Konstfack (Stockholm) in 1996 and has been active in the region since then. The themes in her artistic work are close to her everyday life in northern Tornedalen and she engages with a variety of techniques and materials. Lately Ylipää has focused on drawing, where spacial design and interaction with the spectator are central to the works. Ylipää has a great interest in societal structures, especially the processes of transformation and development that are currently happening in the north. Right now she is extra interested in norms and attitudes that touch on peripheral concepts as well as regional and cultural borders. And pine trees.
Liz Kinoshita is a Canadian/Belgian choreographer, performer, pedagogue and dance advocate. Her practices focus on musicality in dance, working with live performances shared (inter)nationally. She has worked with ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Tino Sehgal, among others, and created her own work with collaborators such as Clinton Stringer, Justin F. Kennedy and Salka Ardal Rosengren. Her most recent creation Saga Saga (2024) premiered in Brådjupa Festival in Blekinge (SE). Liz presently organises a monthly event höjden nights presenting multidisciplinary artists within a convivial context.
Robert Jacobsson is a social worker, sexologist, and PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Södertörn University. As a sexologist, he has appeared in Ligga med P3 and SVT's documentary Anal Extas. His research explores queer men's bodies—what a body can do, what a body does—desire, and pleasure, particularly in relation to anal sex.