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alex/alexandra sofie jönsson


is a socially engaged artist working with queer, eco-feminist and pedagogical formats, exploring how artistic practice can become a site for collective work. Often working in response to institutional spaces and contexts, and often collaborating with communities as part of their practice.

They have previously shown work at Art Center Nabi, Lewisham Hospital, Tate Modern, Kunsthal NORD and Roskilde Festival. They are one of the co-founders of lím collective, a platform based in Aalborg exploring artistic practices at the intersections of health and care, and a former organiser of Goldsmiths University collective The Open System Association, Autonomous Tech Fetish (ATF), and The Body Recovery Unit.


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A Whisk In Your Head



A Whisk in Your Head (2018)
Audio installation in collaboration with  Loes Bogers
Voice over, Toyin Adeyinka
Lewisham Maternity Ward, London (UK)
 



“A Whisk In Your Head” (2018) is a audio installation developed for the midwifery staff room in collaboration with Loes Bogers and healthcare activist and organiser Toyin Adeyinka. The work address the healthcare system from the perspective of its workers through a audio work developed with and for working midwives in the form of a  relaxation exercise. The relaxation exercise is based on midwives’ testimonies of their embodied experiences of midwifery work and its location in the body.

Showcased at Lewisham maternity ward midwife well-being days in 2018 and 2019.

The project was kindly supported by the AHRC, Lewisham Maternity Ward and Lewisham Maternity Voices Partnership.


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