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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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circleness




circleness(2023)
North Jutland, Denmark
Workshops
Photos: Kamilla Mez
 




Circleness is an open source process to study care practices, safety and risks in the context of partying communities. In a series of workshops in spring 2023 with more than 70 people aged 16 to 30 worked on developing and reflecting on their party culture through social trust-exercises, movement and conversation. The purpose of the workshop process was to create an energetic space to practise being supported, trusting instincts, feeling own boundaries, and sensing  others' level of comfortability.  Taking its foundation from principles of feminist care architecture where the relationship between  body, space and energy is thought of as a cornerstone for placemaking, the project evolves around exploring the state of circleness, the feeling of circular energy rather than a geometric form.  One of the 70 visual trust walk  routes from the workshops is constructed as a wooden hang-out structure at Roskilde Festival 2023,  and an alphabet of un/safety created during the workshops will be inscribed on the structure.
 





Taking its foundation from principles of feminist care architecture where the relationship between  body, space and energy is thought of as a cornerstone for placemaking, one of the 70 visual trust walk  routes from the workshops is constructed as a wooden hang-out structure at Roskilde Festival 2023,  which contains a archive of knowledge shared at the workshops.   

Thanks to participating youth groups: Hjørring Gymnasium Arts Studies 1K, 2/3G, FLOKKR youth groups, and NEMA crew training.

The project is a collaboration with Rikke Bogetoft from NEMA and Lím Collective. It is kindly supported by UMMK, Roskilde Festival Fonden, Art Hub Copenhagen, and The Danish Arts Council. 

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