Adam Seid Tahir & Amina Seid Tahir Change Tempo: several attempts at braiding my way home Sweden / Eritrea

Change Tempo returns to Brixton House in 2024 to introduce London to two international artists whose transformational works blur the line between dance and visual art.  

Sweden-based Adam Seid Tahir and Amina Seid Tahir draw inspiration from literature on Black feminism and marine mammals for their latest production – several attempts at braiding my way home, a show born out of longing for a space that celebrates and holds their multiplicities as queer Afro-Nordic siblings. 

Solo performer Adam begins the show by removing their braids and attaching them to a sculpture of a weave that is suspended at the back of the stage. Like real hair, the weave grows with each performance, storing memories and emotions, creating a timeline that carries the history of the piece. 

Set to a pulsating score, several attempts at braiding my way home is a meditation on how it feels to have a place in which to dream, and to truly call home. 

There will be a free post-show talk chaired by Lisa Anderson, Managing Director of the Black Cultural Archives on Thursday 24 October. Join us and the company after the performance on Friday 25 October for a live set from DJ Conrad Kira in the foyer.

Credit Bea Borgers

Adam Seid Tahir 
Adam (pictured right) is a dancer, choreographer and web developer interested in dreams and watery myths and their relationships to queer blackness. They are also deeply invested in what it means to be Afro-Nordic and have multiple heritage. Adam sees choreography as an opportunity to manifest dreams and loving speculations and use mediums including hair braiding, speculative somatics, 3D animation and sensor technology to create ephemeral worlds. 

Amina Seid Tahir  
Amina (pictured left) is a Swedish-Eritrean artist and choreographer based in Stockholm and London. Her work is rooted in themes around resting and dreaming within the global majority community and grows through mediums such as sound, braiding, vibration, installation and performance. Braiding together her interests in ancestral knowledge with oral traditions and myths, she creates a universe between reality and fiction. Manifesting spaces where dreams can work like seeds to grow futures.