Tundé Adefioye

Founded a poetry group with youth of immigrant backgrounds. Co-created activities that provided access to literature/culture. From this emerged Urban Woorden in 2009. Now Trill https://www.trill.be .
As city dramaturg of the Royal Flemish Theatre/KVS Brussels, did dramaturgy for Sachli Gholamalizad, Fikry El Azzouzi, Junior Mthombeni and others. 2019, directorial debut with Contact Theatre Manchester. Same year was in Lebanon to work with Haven for Artist on SLOW#05: Queer Courage. 2020, did dramaturgy for Moya Michael’s Coloured Swan III. Co-edited the Free University Brussels book Migration, Equality and Racism. 2023, was also privileged to do theoretical research that informed MilØ Slayers piece Demonstratio, https://kwp.brussels/projects/demonstratio . Since 20/21 cofounded, working semi-volunteer with Towards Braver Spaces Antwerp, which centers needs of racialized and/or queer folx using a collective care approach. Currently engaged as a lecturer at School of the Arts KdG, Antwerp.

It would be an absolute privilege to be able to be part of the CDCD advisory committee with these sets of skills and knowledge. To be part of a process that as indigenous Bolivian decolonial feminist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui asserts, attempts to make the anticolonial a (realized) struggle. Tundé is invigorated by CDCD naming identity as a focus. Because, it is identity, namely racial and (trans*) gender, that is still being used to determine capital and as the mortar building the walls of fort Europe. He looks forward to working with CDCD’s broad impressive coalition. Tundé is fascinated by the attempts to zoom into the ethical considerations that have to be made when working through the colonial amnesia that still fogs how we envision ourselves, our societies and collective futures. The 22 artists that will work in this project have no small tasks, but it is also what makes their work so potentially powerful. And to be afforded the possibility to play a role in setting the foundation of a proper ethical steering group is a kind of challenge that he looks forward to investing more deep thought in.

https://www.kvs.be/en/pQbzua/tunde-adefioye & Linkedin: https://t.ly/_SI6K