Cecilia Germain and multidisciplinary performer Ayesha Jordan in conversation about their practices with moderator Ro Averin.

Cecilia Germain is a Swedish-Canadian artist living in Uppsala since 2018. After her studies at the Department of Art at Konstfack in Stockholm, 2000-2006, Germain has worked on themes that often deal with colonial structures, historiography, memory work, grief processes, pathways to healing and decolonisation, black public health and social justice. Painting, photography, text, graphics and performance are recurring mediums of expression the artist uses, but she also works with olfactory botanical materials and with certain botany as a growing archive and a way into stories, knowledge, history and hope for the future.

Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator based in Oslo, Norway. Her current research is based in applied permaculture studies, regenerative community/ecosystem formation and adaptation, event curation, heritage, and how these can be explored through performance, and inform performance methodologies. This research is currently being integrated in a forthcoming project titled Shasta Geaux Pop presents: Shasta Greaux Crops.

Ro (they/she) is a writer, consultant, researcher, and educator centering mindful and intersectional approaches to social, racial, and environmental justice in many fields through UNLRN PRJCT, and in the arts through Rafiki Art Initiatives. Born in Turtle Island/Canada, Ro now calls Sápmi/Northern Norway home, her heritage stretching through diaspora to Jamaica, and to the African continent. Outside of work they can be found in nature, writing and editing in a variety of mediums, on a yoga mat teaching or practicing, and organizing art and wellness retreats like Hearing Home.