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Let us introduce Marikki Nyfors – a participant in the Resistance Song Residency. Marikki is a Finnish artist working across contemporary dance, performance, music, storytelling, writing, and film. Inspired by songs, objects, personal narratives, language, and play, she creates works for audiences of different ages. Her multidisciplinary practice seeks to engage viewers emotionally. In her textual and sound-based work, she often employs sampling — interweaving familiar references and intertextual elements into new compositions. The question of objecthood consistently accompanies her artistic research.
During her time at SODAS 2123, Nyfors will develop her research project Rapunzel of Finland, exploring identity, fiction and reality, fairy tales, songs, storytelling, consumerism, and the deep desire to belong. The project begins as a journey through collective singing, shared storytelling, rewriting lyrics, field recording, composing, and writing.
Resistance Song Residency explores the political, social, and affective dimensions of song, examining how collective singing can foster solidarity, healing, and shared ritual. The spring cycle of the residency is curated by Vaida Stepanovaitė.
Resistance Song Residency is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.
SODAS 2123 activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius city municipality.