We Need Queer Liberation Now

Presented below are 7 artists from We Need Queer Liberation Now, an international residency and artist support project from East Street Arts and Theatre In The Mill, and facilitated by Leeds-based artist Sayang.

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In 2021 we commissioned a series of digital commissions, one from each artist on the programme, asking the question, “What does Queer liberation mean to you?”. Accompanying each commission is an audio recording of an interview between Sayang and each artist, reflecting on the work created and containing a message to the rest of the group. In 2022 we will conclude this project with a 6-day residency, planning our activity as a group, to focus on creating space for togetherness & kinship.
Our Artists:
Teddy, Nahi Mitti, Axmed Maxamed, Roland Korponovics, Xavier De Sousa, Vee Dagger, Metin Akdemir, Keith Zenga King.

Find out more about our artists

  1. Xavier de Sousa (WNQLN)
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    Xavier de Sousa (WNQLN)

    Xavier de Sousa is an independent performance maker and culture worker based between Brighton and Lisbon.

  2. Vee Dagger
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    Vee Dagger

    Vee Dagger is a Taiwanese lesbian drag artist inspired by villainesses, sixties technicolour, overwrought horror, and birds.

  3. Metin Akdemir
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    Metin Akdemir

    Metin Akdemir, produces and curates works in film and contemporary art, looks at the invisible objects and people of daily life, urban memory through spaces as well as mainstream films and narratives from a queer perspective.

  4. Axmed Maxamed
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    Axmed Maxamed

    Axmed Maxamed is a Queer Diasporic Somali activist, organizer and music nerd. Axmed was born in Xamar, Somalia where he spent his early years until his family had to flee during the civil war and ended up in the Netherlands

  5. Nahi Mitti
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    Nahi Mitti

    Nahi Mitti is a transfeminine brown person who works on and against discourse around her body-mind-spirit, using an intermedia(l) approach, invested in asking questions around (queer) virtuosity, the role of an artist, deferral... failure, and the inter-connective potentialities present in her/their practice and its world-building.

  6. Roland Korponovics
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    Roland Korponovics

    Roland Korponovics is a media-artist currently living and working in Budapest, Hungary.

  7. Teddy
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    Teddy

    Teddy (also known as Te Double Dy's) is a dancer that has more than 10 years of experience in the dance industry.