Tyra Wigg is a performance artist, choreographer, and dancer. Their work explores desires and problems of the sensing body in relation to its cultural, political, and material surroundings. Tyra likes to sample, remix, de-and reconstruct movements, aesthetics, ideas, and methods from disciplines ‘outside’ of the contemporary arts field. They’re enticed by how fusions of previously separate fields can open the consciousness for new experiences. Drawing on their background in massage therapy and care work, Tyra is interested in how forms of direct and indirect touch can expand our contact with ourselves and each other. Their desire for more connection beyond neoliberal logics is also ushering them to the realms of social dream sharing.
Wigg’s performances have been presented at venues and festivals such as Kaserne Basel, MDT Stockholm, Les Urbaines, far° Nyon, Joint Adventures Munich, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ROXY Birsfelden, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum Tinguely, Weld Stockholm, and Shedhalle Zürich.
As a performer and collaborator, Wigg has worked with Gisèle Vienne, Heiner Goebbels, Shu Lea Cheang, Ernestyna Orlowska, Marina Abramović, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Alexandra Pirici, among others.In 2020 Wigg relocated their homebase from Stockholm, Sweden to Basel, Switzerland. In 2023, they completed an MA in Expanded Theatre at Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
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2026 Artist in Residence at Fundaziun Nairs (CH)
2025 Participant in Transmission Impossible at Festival D’Avignon
2023-24 “LAB-artist” in residence at Kaserne Basel
2021-24 Motherboard member of Blasphemic Reading Soirées- a nomadic platform for queerfeminist reading and discussion culture.
2022 Part of the discursive reflection groups for emerging artists at AUA LAB at Auawirleben, Bern, and Watch&Talk at Theaterfestival Basel.
2021 Receiver of the DanceWeb Scholarship at Impulstanz in Vienna with mentorship from Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies.
2019-20 Artist in residence at SITE in Stockholm.
Photo: Fabienne Bieri