Stina Fors stares blankly at the camera. Their mouth is open, revealing multiple realistic-looking tongue models stacked inside, creating a surreal and unsettling effect. The background is plain and white.

Stina Fors in conversation with Rosalie Doubal

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

Fors and Doubal will discuss Fors’ award-winning performance Answer me, Pythia. The performance emerged from Fors’ research into the fabled Oracle of Delphi. The artist explores the figure’s role as a soothsayer who delivers riddles about fate, forcing the seeker to look within for the truth. 

Originally premiered in 2025 at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, the performance is being reimagined into a new, shorter live format specifically for Studio Voltaire.

The pair will touch upon Fors’ practice, which spans dance, theatre and music, and discuss her method of treating her body of work as one evolving piece, constantly reworked to suit new contexts.

  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. This event will be seated. If you have any questions or need assistance with your visit, please feel welcome to contact us at +44 (0) 20 7622 1294 or info@studiovoltaire.org. Read Studio Voltaire's full access information here.

    1. Portrait of Stina Fors, courtesy of the artist and Steinsland Berliner. Photo: Knotan
    2. Portrait of Rosalie Doubal, courtesy of Christa Holka.
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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Stina Fors sits on the floor against a white wall, legs spread wide. In front of them are two ventriloquist dummies with exaggerated smiles, dressed in white tops and dark trousers, positioned to mimic the person’s seated posture.

Performance: Answer me, Pythia
Stina Fors

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