LYNX a conversation with Astrit Ismaili and Catherine Nichols

Join us at the Centre for Narrative Practice for a conversation with Astrit Ismaili, Manifesta 14 Prishtina participant with Catherine Nichols, the Creative Mediator of Manifesta 14.

More about Astrit Ismaili

Astrit Ismaili (1991, RKS) is a performance artist from Kosovo, based in Amsterdam. Their artistic practice features bodies that consist of both imaginary and material realities, using alter egos, body extensions and wearable music instruments to embody different possibilities for becoming.

Within their practice, the act of singing is used to explore the role of voice in pop culture and identity politics. Ismaili’s central interest is how bodies are constructed and interpreted through contemporary society, but also how they are heard, asking what it means to sonify a body politic.

Exploring the politics of the body and voice, they aim to disrupt prevailing narratives around representation, imagining new and utopian ways of thinking; how bodies inhabit and occupy space.

More about Catherine Nichols

Catherine Nichols, an arts and literary scholar, curator and writer, will take the artistic lead for the next edition opening on the 22nd of July 2022. Having mounted acclaimed exhibitions across Germany, she is currently the artistic director of beuys 2021, a year-long centenary programme in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia dedicated to the artist Joseph Beuys.