Åshild Løvvig (NO)
Åshild Løvvig (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist with a BA in Acting, focused on storytelling and performance art, and an MA in Linguistics, focused on embodied cognition and acting as a possible language learning tool. She is currently the most experienced in Norway on the expression of drag king and masculine drag art. Her work explores fluidity of gender, expression, and meaning, blending academics, cinematic influences, storytelling and the queer arts, utilising these to navigate the intersection of language, identity, theatre and drag. She has been partaking in a small movement of experimental drag in Norway, exploring the abject, where Åshild’s main focus are genres/expressions as draglesque, drag thing, post-humanism, critical takes on the (cis)feminine identity and queer intersectionality. She has also a deep interest in neurodiversity and inclusion of disability in the arts, and how the able-bodied, neurotypical experience dictates concepts like “quality” and “beauty”.
Taken residency at
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.
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.
INITIUM
Foundation INITIUM is a production platform for contemporary art and culture projects. At INITIUM, our mission is to facilitate community development through the transformative power of arts and culture. We collaborate with communities to create and develop innovative theatre productions and art projects that reflect their unique stories, perspectives and experiences. Through these collaborative endeavours, we strive to promote social change and inspire a more inclusive and vibrant society.
