Motherboardt With Fannie Sosa and niv Acosta

What happens when a group of multi-ethnic young people from across the sexual and gender identity spectrum take over a space at Tate Modern?

Join them for a lively evening of performance that breaks new ground in movement and sound technology to explore public space and representations of the body, drawing on a series of movement workshops led by artists Fannie Sosa and niv Acosta.

Creating a space to examine how the body experiences and processes sound, at a time where sound is often used to disperse and discourage young people from taking up space, Motherboardt challenges how young people navigate the world around them and draws on afro-diasporic knowledge to confront issues of belonging and presence in society.

About Fannie Sosa and niv Acosta

Fannie Sosa is an afro-descendant activist, artist and curandera (healer) based in Barcelona. She is currently undertaking a France-Brazil co-directed PhD called Twerk, Torque: New Strategies for Subjectivity Decolonisation in Web 2.0 Times. Her work is built around pleasurable resistance, the processes of being/becoming an outsider in techno-scientific worlds, trans-ness, divine pride, and decolonial sexualities. Fannie runs extended workshops that take on moving your ass as a radical feminist / womanist practice, connected to contemporary and historical forms of Afro-diasporic healing praxis.

niv Acosta is an award winning and internationally acclaimed multi-medium artist and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. His intersectional identities as transgender, queer, and black-dominican have continuously inspired his community-based work. niv’s work and thought leadership has been featured in many publications and his performance work has debuted in programs internationally including MOMA PS1 and David Roberts Art Foundation in London. niv’s current project DISCOTROPIC centers a conversation, situated between the pragmatic and fantastical, exploring the intersections of science fiction, astro-physics, disco and the black american experience. Parallel to his artistic practice through his racial justice work he has provided Racism trainings for Cultural Producers at KW Institute (Berlin), NYU, Vassar College and Movement Research.