Tyra Wigg (*Stockholm) works with choreography, dance, and performance art, based in Basel, Switzerland. In 2023 they obtained an MA in Expanded Theatre at Bern University of the Arts, HKB.
Tyra’s works have been presented in venues and festivals such as MDT Moderna Dansteatern Stockholm, Kaserne Basel, Les Urbaines, far° Nyon, Joint Adventures Münich, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ROXY Birsfelden, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthalle Basel/Regionale-24, Weld Stockholm, BONE Performance Art Festival Bern, Shedhalle Zürich, YUP Osnabrück, SITE Sweden, and Amore Basel.
Since their dance diploma in 2013, Tyra has been working as a dancer, performer and artistic collaborator with Gisèle Vienne, Heiner Goebbels, Shu Lea Cheang, Ernestyna Orlowska, Marina Abramovic, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Alexandra Pirici, Pontus Pettersson, Marie Fahlin, Dorte Olesen, Virpi Pahkinen, amongst others.
Tyra’s background in massage therapy and care work has stimulated a curiosity in how artistic and physiotherapeutic practices can intersect and expand subjective corporealities. They embrace choreography and performance art as strategies to connect with the desires and conflicts of the sensing body in its cultural, political, and material environment.
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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: Sascha Rijkeboer