A performative lecture which is part of the Baltic Circle festival.

23.11.2024 at 15–16
1st floor, Kiasma Theatre
Tickets: From 5 €
Pay what you wish from 5 € up
in English

This performance lecture draws on Kai Syng Tan’s new book on art, neurodiversity and making change. The book Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership: An A-Z towards Collective Liberation (2024) calls for a re-imagination of ‘leadership’ as a…

• trans-disciplinary
• (co-)creative
• diversified
• decolonised
• neuro-queered

…practice of change and future-making.

At once inspirational, creative, and at times hilarious, Tan provides multiple strategies to disrupt and reclaim ideas and spaces about leadership.

The lecture is set to original composition by Philip Tan and includes clips from Kai Syng Tan’s short film commissioned for BBC Culture in Quarantine How to Thrive in 2050! (2021).

Artist

Kai Syng Tan PhD FRSA PFHEA is an award-winning artist-academic-agitator. Hyper-active and tentacular, Tan (she/they) activates artistic and artful processes and strategies to catalyse novel insights, dialogues and actions for a more equitable and creative future. Kai’s book on re-imagining leadership as a co-creative, neuro-queered practice centring anti-oppression and futurity will be out in Summer 2024. She is Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership, University of Southampton, UK.

Baltic Circle

Baltic Circle is an international festival for contemporary theatre and performance organised annually in November in Helsinki. Next edition is the 21st and it takes place in Helsinki from 22 to 30 November 2024. Read more from balticcircle.fi