Performance act by Vala T. Foltyn

On Saturday, 9 October at 4 pm, a performance by Vala T. Foltyn, an artist participating in the exhibition What Makes Another World Possible?, will take place at Tallinn Art Hall.

A sensual howl of resistance. A queer elegy. An act of liberation. Tender witchcraft that arises from love and anger. It derives from Her personal experience of Loss. It channels the voice of transgender herstory, that often was, and still is being dismissed, erased and forgotten.
 
As a non-binary artist Vala T. Foltyn works with the notions of loss and death. As a queer witch she talks from her personal experiences and feelings; such as being evicted from an old villa, that was a shelter for independent queer art scene in Kraków, Poland (Lamella – The House of Queer Arts). Her story goes beyond the mere effects of power structures of neoliberal politics, corruption, precarity, or even gentrification. This experience becomes a material for performance making situated in site specific ritual – it shapeshifts and reacts to the local environment. It is choreographed to converse with the past and bring the unheard voices to the presence of contemporary discourse. For this occasion it creates small dances and witch stories that are re-enacted from Vala’s archives that include ghosts, spirits, dreams, hallucinations and also non-human creatures.
 
A sensual howl of resistance. A queer elegy. An act of liberation. Tender witchcraft that arises from love and anger. It derives from Her personal experience of Loss. It channels the voice of transgender herstory, that often was, and still is being dismissed, erased and forgotten.