Wolfa Collective for 'Wolfa's Hymns' (Working title).
Photo: Maja Carlsson Jeansson.
Wolfa is a shapeshifter, an entity whose appearance exists only through others. She proposes a name for a shared identity—a post-identity that both partly creates us and dismantles our solitude. Wolfa established the Wolfa Collective (2024) in Antwerp (BE), bringing together artists from various countries and disciplines, including dance, drama, sound, film, costume, visual arts, and lighting, to collaborate. Due to her shifting appearance, different artists can assume her name, giving the collective a fluid form and structure. The aim is to cultivate a transdisciplinary platform that encourages experimental and collaborative work. Wolfa is dedicated to creating and presenting works that explore horizontal creation methods, shared authorship, and collective voices. Central to our philosophy is the concept of a shifting "queer structure," where "queer" signifies the potential for both ourselves and our work to continuously transform and evolve, resisting fixed formats and traditional boundaries.
The artists in the Wolfa Collective have studied at institutions such as the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (Dance, Kleinkunst, and Composition), ArtEZ Dance Artist, the Conservatory of Amsterdam, RITCS, Skurup Folkhögskola, Nordens Fotoskola, New Education for Contemporary Dance, and Centro Andaluz de Danza. They bring a wide range of experiences, from creating their own works and collaborating with other artists to working with companies and participating in various projects. Their experiences span collaborations with Cullberg, Danish Dance Theatre, GRIP, and Tout Petit, as well as presenting works at venues such as the National Theatre of Greece, Blikfabriek, LAFS#8 Arenberg, de Studio, Archipel, l’Uzinne, Café Theater Festival, MORPHO kunsthal extra-city, Kavka Oudaan, and Södra Teatern.
Wolfa’s founding artists are Ella-My Blomdahl, Elin Hallqvist, Dimitra Sofronoiu and Luca Tomaselli, along with the artists participating in the first project.
Wolfa’s Hymns is the working title of a new exploratory project by the Wolfa Collective, centered on the intra-action between body and nature, examining the concept of "borderland being"—a fluid existence that shifts between collective and hybrid forms of bodies. The project delves into the idea of our appearance as a meeting point where self and otherness converge, challenging traditional notions of identity and embodiment.
We are interested in the concept of "posthuman erotics," exploring how to cultivate connections with more-than-human entities, landscapes, and multiple forms of existence. Here, eroticism extends beyond the sexual, embodying the potential for shared joy and pleasure in horizontal, non-hierarchical relationships.
Working transdisciplinarily across sound, projection, film, light, live music, dance, performance, and costume, we seek both raw and radical expression alongside the sensual and subtle. Influenced by folkloric and religious hymn motifs, we blend experimental approaches, electronic sounds, and boundary-pushing elements to create an immersive experience.
Through our hymns, we seek to dismantle preconceived ideas of what it means to become in the world. Our first project will offer ‘a divine concert’ filled with pleasure, narcissistic creatures, shame, love, ambiguity, (non)sense, the holy and the profane, the unknown, and something else.
Instagram: @wolfa__collective
