SOME TRANS FEM PERSPECTIVES + ‘CHASER ART’
conversation and performance lecture
convened by Andria Nyberg Forshage (Kai Residency) with Alana Proosa and Vaim Sarv
24 October, 6-8pm
Kai Art Center auditorium, Peetri 12
Welcome to an evening asking how, why, where or how ‘trans femininity’ comes to make sense, how we might relate, and what we might need.
Schedule:
6-7pm: Conversation: SOME TRANS FEM PERSPECTIVES with Alana Proosa, Andria Nyberg Forshage and Vaim Sarv
7-8pm: Performance lecture: CHASER ART by Andria Nyberg Forshage
Please join us to listen and talk.
The event is free and will be in English. Light refreshments will be served.
Following affinities made over the course of the autumn, Andria Nyberg Forshage – currently in residency at Kai – invites Alana Proosa and Vaim Sarv to an open conversation. The ambition is to reflect on the conditions of possibility for trans feminine art and life in our multiple contexts, across the Baltic Sea and elsewhere.
Beginning with a curiousity about ways of doing and sensing, rather than representations of identity, the conversation departs from our respective practices. How might we understand relations to communities, institutions, and histories? Against transmisogyny, sensationalism, and erasure: What is needed, how is it felt, how to move, meet, and talk?
After the conversation, Andria will share her performance lecture titled ‘CHASER ART’. It turns the gaze onto the many famous artists who have made their name making desirable images of trans women and trans fem people in contemporary Western art history. Naming this genre through an act of performative curating, this lecture gestures effeminately towards a comprehensive rewriting of modern and contemporary art history. Who chases the chaser?
The lecture is based on ongoing research and was previously featured as part of the public programme for Vaginal Davis ‘HOFPFISTEREI’ at Index (2024) and for C.U.T.S. organised by Ruby Nilsson at My Wild Flag (2025) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Andria Nyberg Forshage works with writing, curating, poetry, art, theory and criticism. Her transdisciplinary artistic research concerns queer- and transfeminist aesthetics, perception, desire and survival. They are a contributing editor with Paletten Art Journal. Based in Stockholm, she works internationally.
Alana Proosa is an Estonia-based photographer whose work explores themes of identity and sexuality, with a focus on transgender experiences, offering fresh perspectives on the diversity of human existence.
Vaim Sarv is a chronically ill vocalist, organizer, and writer. She is a student of the oral tradition of Estonian runosong which he engages with through a queer-feminist and decolonial lens. Her performances are more like gatherings which emerge out of situated forms of hospitality and conviviality. He works as a part-time janitor at Massia where she collaborates on questions of self-organization, community living, and care work, and helps organize a queer sauna in Tallinn.
Launched in 2019, Kai Residency provides a platform for international artists, curators, and writers to develop their work in Tallinn while connecting with the local cultural scene. As the only residency of its kind in Estonia, it fosters exchange, dialogue, and collaboration between visiting residents and Estonian art practitioners.
Kai Residency is supported by Nordic Culture Point.