Aisha Konaté (DE)
“My work is a research for technologies of pleasure, to walk through joy and pain with love and attitude“
Aïsha Konaté (she/they) is a queer, mixed-race performance artist, pleasure activist, and facilitator for physical theater, dance, butoh, voice, and sensual and pleasure-related somatic practice. Aïsha lives in Leipzig, where she creates performances, workshops, retreats, rituals, and places of rest throughout Germany, primarily with and for marginalized people. Aïsha is passionate about body knowledge, ancestry, grounded spirituality, rituals, science fiction, and the mind-blowing potential of collective intelligence in flow. Most recently, she co-directed and performed in the international production Cracks in Time and the Appearance of New Goddesses (2024, Loft – Das Theater). Other projects: Elfenbein (2022), Holobiontinnen (2023), TIEFEN.ausatmen (2023)
Taken residency at
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts
HELLERAU acts as an interdisciplinary and international centre for dance, performance, music, theatre and media arts. It offers spaces for productions, festivals, concerts performances, exhibitions and discourse, cooperates with various regional cultural partners and is firmly connected internationally. An important part of HELLERAU is a residency program, which offers opportunities for artistic research, networks, production and encounters throughout the whole year.
Nau Ivanow
Nau Ivanow is a space of welcome, accompaniment, research and innovation; a haven where companies will find the warmth needed to work unhurriedly and in good conditions. Residencies are the main focus of what we do. Our aim is to provide decent working conditions, always accompanying the artists and providing them with the resources they need. Nau Ivanow’s projects are underpinned by three major working axes: creation, accompaniment and work with the territory. And all of them with one common denominator: internationalization, which permeates each and every one of our projects.
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts
Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts is a hub and a gathering point in Northern Norway for the professional independent Performing Arts community. The organization is a laboratory for new ideas, artistic research, and an open space where different cultures are cared for. We challenge hegemonic thinking and support cross-sectorial artistic working and thinking. We are staff of 11 curios people, we are placed in Hammerfest, Tromsø and Bodø and we are a space that offers residency, laboratories and producer services.
