Artist-in-residence Stina Fors spoke with Rosalie Doubal, Senior Curator, International Art (Performance and Participation) at Tate.

Fors and Doubal discussed the artist’s award-winning performance, Answer me, Pythia, which Fors reimagined at Studio Voltaire during her February 2026 residency. The performance stemmed from Fors' research on the legendary Oracle of Delphi. The artist examined how she was inspired by the figure's role as a soothsayer, delivering riddles about fate that compel the seeker to look within for the truth.

During their conversation, the pair discussed Fors’ wider practice, including her previous works and methods, as well as other elements such as drumming and puppetry.

Fors’ residency was supported by the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, hosted by Kunstraum Niederoesterreich.

  1. Stina Fors (b. 1989, Sweden) is a performance artist, drummer, and choreographer. In 2024, Fors performed at the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and in the Austrian Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale. Fors’ work has been presented at TQW, Vienna (2025), brut Wien, Vienna (2025, 2022), Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2020, 2018), La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris (2024), Short Theater, Rome (2024), Centrale Fies, Trento (2020), MDT, Stockholm (2025, 2023), Inkonst, Malmö (2025), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2022), CA2M, Madrid (2023), STUK, Leuven (2022), and Campo, Ghent (2020), among others. Fors also teaches voice techniques and is trained in choreography at SNDO in Amsterdam.

  2. Rosalie Doubal is Senior Curator, International Art (Performance and Participation) at Tate. She was previously a Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2013 - 2022, delivering exhibitions, performance, interdisciplinary projects and discursive programmes. She has held curatorial positions at The Showroom, London, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and Co-Directed Edinburgh project space Sierra Metro. She has written for frieze, Flash Art, Art Monthly, Apollo and MAP Magazine, among others.

  3. Since 2007, the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance has been a fixed date on the calendar of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. It is the only award in the field of contemporary art in Austria that is exclusively dedicated to performance. Winners of the H13 Prize in the past years include Katharina Ernst (2024), Rehema Chachage (2023), Elisabeth Kihlström and Alexander Martinz (2022), Sara Lanner (2021), and Julischka Stengele (2020).

  4. Credit Rita Silva

  5. Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and Stina Fors © eSeL.at. Credit Robert Putenau

Artist Stina Fors lies on the floor, embracing two ventriloquist dummies or masks with painted faces and synthetic hair. The person is dressed in white, blending into the neutral background, and gazes softly at the camera.

Stina Fors Residency

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