Wolfa's hymns

Wolfa’s Hymns is the working title of a new exploratory project by the Wolfa Collective, centered on the interaction between body and nature and examining the concept of "borderland being"—a fluid existence that shifts between collective and hybrid forms of bodies. The project delves into the idea of appearance as a meeting point where self and otherness converge, challenging traditional notions of identity and embodiment.

The Collective is interested in the concept of "posthuman erotics," exploring how to cultivate connections with more-than-human entities, landscapes, and multiple forms of existence. In this context, eroticism extends beyond the sexual, embodying the potential for shared joy and pleasure in horizontal, non-hierarchical relationships.

Working transdisciplinarily across sound, projection, film, light, live music, dance, performance, and costume, the Collective seeks both raw and radical expression alongside the sensual and subtle. Influenced by folkloric and religious hymn motifs, they blend experimental approaches, electronic sounds, and boundary-pushing elements to create an immersive experience.

Through their hymns, the Wolfa Collective aims to dismantle preconceived ideas of what it means to become in the world. The first project will offer "a divine concert" filled with pleasure, narcissistic creatures, shame, love, ambiguity, (non)sense, the holy and the profane, the unknown, and something else.

The project is coordinated by Ella-My Blomdahl and created in collaboration with Elin Hallqvist, Luca Tomaselli, Mei-Li Dong Paez, Dimitra Sofroniou, Lieke Oolders, and Maja Carlsson Jeansson, with extended collaborations from Emma Wästfelt, Ebba Bergman, Alma Ekholm, Maya Stengårds Jonsson, and Milla Mann.