Mare Tralla

@maretralla

Mare Tralla is Estonian queer-feminist interdisciplinary artist and activist living in Edinburgh. Watch Freedom To Speech /398117555
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Delighted to be in the good company of 16 other Scotland-based projects awarded Immersive Arts UK funding. Our Explore grant will enable us to research and develop methods for bringing to life the untold story 'By Leaves We Live. When Morris Met Geddes' to as wide an audience as possible. We will experiment with mixed, augmented and extended reality to find out how these technologies can enhance the storytelling power of traditional dance choreography for screen and stage. So looking forward to exploring this with our dream team, including Tupac Martir of SATORE STUDIO, Madeline Squire, Olga Taxidou, Mare Tralla and William Zachs! #immersiveartsuk #ExploreFund #traddancescotland #PatrickGeddes #margaretmorrismovement @creativescots @immersivearts_uk
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1 month ago
Are you up for helping us beat the algorithm? Share the poster I'm Supporting Ceilidh Plus. Encourage your pals to join us. Some tickets left but the last 3 Ceilidh Plus events sold out so... ⏰Fri, 13 Feb 6-10pm 📍King's Hall 🎟️ticketsource.co.uk/traddanceforumscotland or via the 🔗 in bio
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3 months ago
Mare Tralla teos Fotokuu rahvusvahelisel linnaruumi näitusel „Volitatud vormid“ Tralla on Eesti kväär-feministlik kunstnik ja aktivist, kes elab ja töötab Edinburghis. Tema professionaalne karjäär algas 1990. aastate alguses, mil ta oli üks esimesi feministlikke kunstnikke Eesti kaasaegse kunsti väljal. Isiklikust ajaloost ja igapäevastest kogemustest lähtudes toimis tema looming kriitilise reaktsioonina Ida-Euroopa üleminekuperioodi mõjule naistele. Ta kasutab ja kombineerib oma loomingus erinevaid meediume nagu video, foto, performance, interaktiivne meedia, maal ja erinevad traditsioonilise käsitöövormid. 📍Skulptuuri „Hämarik“ ees, Viru Keskuse välialal Teos: „Ma näen sind!“, 2025, kohaspetsiifiline installatsioon Näitus on avatud 24/7, välja arvatud jalakäijate tunnelis, mis on avatud kell 05:00–00:00. Tasuta sissepääs. Ratastooliga ligipääsetav. Kuraatorid: Kati Ots (EE), Trine Stephensen (NO) Foto: Joosep Kivimäe ___ Mare Tralla’s work in Photomonth’s international urban space exhibition „Shaping the Unclaimed“ Tralla is an Estonian queer-feminist artist and activist who lives and works in Edinburgh. Her professional art career started in Estonia in the early 90s, where she was one of the very few conducting a feminist revolution in the field of contemporary art. Drawing from her personal history and everyday experience her practice was in direct critical response to how the transition period of East-European societies affected women. In her art practice she employs and combines a variety of media: video, photography, performance, interactive media, painting and various traditional crafts. 📍Besides the sculpture „Hämarik“ (Dusk), in the outdoor area of Viru Keskus Department Store Artwork: I See You!, 2025, site-specific installation The exhibition is open 24/7, except for the pedestrian tunnel, which is open from 5:00 to 00:00. Free entrance Wheelchair accessible Curators: Kati Ots (EE), Trine Stephensen (NO) Photo: Joosep Kivimäe #fotokuu2025 #tallinnafotokuu #tallinnphotomonth #contemporaryartbiennial #urbanspaceexhibition #maretralla
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7 months ago
Kõik ükssarvikud on sündinud vabade ja võrdsetena🦄 Just sellenimeline performance leidis aset Fotokuu avanädalavahetusel Mare Tralla (EE) ja Roberta Lima (AT/BR) koostöös. Käesolevat aega iseloomustab inimõiguste pidev rikkumine ja tühistamine globaalsel tasandil. Sõnavabadus, õigus turvalisele elule ja kodule, isikupuutumatus ei ole pärast II maailmasõda veel kunagi nii suures ohus olnud kui praegu. 1948. aastal võttis ÜRO Peaassamblee vastu inimõiguste ülddeklaratsiooni, et kinnitada põhilisemad inimõigused. Pühapäevasel performancel kõlas selle deklaratsiooni kväär lugemine. Lima muusika ja Tralla hääl võimendasid ja kväärisid kunstnik Monica Rossi poolt 2008. aastal algatatud performance’ite seeriat „Aastapäev – mälestusakt: inimõiguste ülddeklaratsiooni üksik-, kollektiivsed ja mitmekeelsed esitlused mälu baasil“, et tuletada meile meelde, kui haprad on inimõigused. Fotod: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo ___ All Unicorns Are Born Free and Equal 🦄 A performance with this title took place during Photomonth’s opening weekend, presented in collaboration by Mare Tralla (EE) and Roberta Lima (AT/BR). Our present moment is marked by the constant violation and erosion of human rights on a global scale. Freedom of speech, the right to a safe life and home, and personal integrity have never been as endangered since the Second World War as they are now. In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to affirm the most fundamental of these rights. Sunday’s performance brought a queer reading of this declaration to the stage. Lima’s music and Tralla’s voice built on Monica Ross’s 2008 performance series „Anniversary – An Act of Memory: Solo, Collective and Multilingual Recitations from Memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights“, amplified and queered it to remind us of the fragility of human rights. Photos: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo #maretralla #robertalima #humanrights #allunicorns #fotokuu2025 #tallinnafotokuu #tallinnphotomonth #contemporaryartbiennial
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8 months ago
Tallinn Photomonth is open. The public art exhibition will be open until end October
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8 months ago
Yesterday was an emotional evening at @kumukunstimuuseum where a retrospective exhibition of Anna-Stina Treumund ‘How to Recognise a Lesbian’ opened. Anna-Stina was an amazing person, fantastic artist, an activist and most generous friend. I miss her dearly. I am so happy that her works are all shown at the most prominent Estonian Art institution. I first met Anna-Stina, when she asked me to be her BA final thesis /exhibition supervisor in 2006. We communicated over e-mail and Skype and I only met her face-to-face just before the opening of the graduation exhibition. What I admired in her early works the most was how she wasn’t afraid to use her vulnerability and turned it into strength and resilience. We became friends and I owe so much to her. She was the first person I came out to. She was the most amazing queer sister!!! Tomorrow there is a discussion/round table at KUMU F-Word, all the original group together from the first LadyFest in Tallinn 2011, except Anna-Stina. I think we are all a bit hazy about what we remember from the discussion 14 years ago, but one thing we do all remember is how Anna-Stina was the connecting piece between all of us. If you can’t go to Tallinn to see her works then her website is a good place / And she loved Unicorns! Yesterday, I was wearing I think 1970s unicorn badge, which I had bought as a present for Anna-Stina from a charity shop in London. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to give it to her. Whenever I wear it I remember her. #queer #queerartist #queerart #estonianart #kumu #annastinatreumund
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8 months ago
Save the Date! On 7/9/25, just before the lunar eclipse: two powerful queer encounters in public spaces of Tallinn and Vienna, featuring Mare Tralla, Pêdra Costa and Mzamo Nondlwana. I first met Mare Tralla in Lisbon in 2013 and a few months later, I met Pêdra Costa in Vienna, both in queer art events. This marked the start of long friendships and several collaborations. As an artist who is constantly moving, I cherish the relationships I built in the past years and everyone who has supported me and continue to believe in my work. In 2016, Pêdra and I inaugurated “Queer Way” at donaufestival. In 2017, from afar, I watched group of Brazilian artists dance on “Queer Way” @mqwien That was when I met Mzamo for the first time. After moving to Finland, Mare Tralla has been the key person in the Baltics for my work. In 2019, we hosted a workshop called “Everyday Rebellion” at Estonian Academy of Arts. I worked hard to find a “home” for my artworks. With the support of @grausamalexandra my sculpture was stored in Vienna and in 2021 reactivated @dasweissehaus - again in collaboration with Pêdra Costa. After that, with the support of @reinhold_zisser “Queer Way” moved to Seestadt and was installed since last year: becoming part of Vienna landscape at Skulpturenalle @notgalerie 12 years later, Mare Tralla and I reunite in Tallinn by the sculpture Dusk to perform “All Unicorns are born free and equal”, referring to the Universal Human Rights Declaration. It will be a queer mash-up to celebrate and fight for the unicorn/human rights @tallinn_photomonth AT THE SAME DAY just a few hours later in Vienna, Pêdra Costa and Mzamo Nondlwana will perform “ZIGZAG/||/TRUCK” to reactivate “Queer way” @notgalerie : Inviting the public to join a parade and to follow the amplified sounds of the speakers.  Two powerful QUEER and STREET performances that celebrate years of collaboration and shared spaces. •• Image credits: on comments •• #art #performanceart #queer #artinpublicplaces #vienna #tallinn #maretralla #pedracosta #mzamonondlwana #queerway •• [Português nos comentários]
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8 months ago
Preparing for @tallinn_photomonth public art exhibition ‘Shaping the Unclaimed’ by the Viru Centre / Kaubamaja intersection in Tallinn. Opening on the 5th September. As it happens there are always unknowns and my process is not most straightforward nor will I exhibit any photos in traditional way (there have been plenty in my practise) this time. A big spanner came today and now I need to come up with a clever solution, but I feel a bit like the photo here, a bit dazed and still reflecting something. At the same time I feel fantastic about my collaboration with @roberta_lima_art on the performance on the 7th September 2pm by the Hämarik / A Dusk sculpture. I called the performance ‘All Unicorns are born free and equal’ referring to the Universal Human Rights Declaration. It will be a queer mash-up to celebrate and fight for the unicorn/human rights. Thanks for @katiots @trinestephensen @kullalaas for inviting and trusting my process.
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8 months ago
Few moments from last Sunday evening at Portobello beach with friends, swim and a bonfire, biggest marshmallow ever and few potatoes in the ashes. Best of summer vibes. And no jellyfish in sight …. Thanks @a_curious_tale for this impromptu evening. #portobellobeach #wildswimming #bonfire #summervibes☀️
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8 months ago
Lovely few days of @portypride :-)
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11 months ago
Just few clouds in the sky but so many emotions after @loud_and_proud_choir 20th anniversary concert tonight. I really wasn’t prepared for the avalanche of overwhelming feelings it released. I came out rather late in life, fell hopelessly in love with a woman at 41 and that was it. Sometimes I have been very angry with myself for all the years I lost, for all the years I was hurting and pretended to be someone else and never dared to open the door. It’s very hard to make peace with oneself, even when you have many years of life experience ;-). And then I was thinking of all my generation and older queers from Estonia and Eastern-Europe, who grew up under the Soviet rule and never could be their free selves then and then continued for long time after to hide and feel stigmatised and did not have any support while coming out later in life. But if they were out during the Soviet time like my friend Jaan Paavle, then it was at a huge personal and professional cost. In 1993, when I did my first performance outside Estonia, I asked Jaan to come with me to help. As we were in the ‘free west’ and alone he kept questioning me why I am with a man (who at that time was his closest friend by the way) and not with a woman as I should be. Few times he tried to play 💘. When I moved to the UK I lost contact with him for several years. On the day, I decided that I will call to tell him that he was right after all I received the news that he had passed away, as heard it there was a bright 🌈 in the sky, guess he was smiling at me. I was thinking about my queer friends, some who are no longer here and others who simply are far away but whose love and friendship has changed me. And also it was the day of Pride in Tallinn. It’s been a long time since I was in Estonia for the Pride, I felt a bit homesick. I am so hugely proud of the community there and how they have come together. And then I really need to send a big hug to all my trans 🏳️‍⚧️ friends.
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11 months ago
#DYK that one of the perks of the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland's free membership includes a regular e-newsletter packed with special content and offers? Our latest newsletter has just made it to the inboxes of 800+ of our subscribers. It includes an exclusive streaming of 'The Bright Fabric of Life' - one of the ten trad dance films we selected for the opening night of our Pomegranates Festival this year. Following 'To Begin the Dance Once More', this is the second in our short film productions choreographed by Vincent Hantam. Directed by Mare Tralla, 'The Bright Fabric of Life' is based on a novel by Mhairi Collie. It asserts the role of screen dance as activism, using African traditional dance and music to explore motherhood and kinship. Like some of the other works in the opening festival programme, it asks how we could continue to celebrate traditional dance sensitively by zooming in on any problematic, colonial or patriarchal stories inscribed in them. Enjoy this trailer and make sure you subscribe to our e-newsletter here: /newsletter/ or via the link in bio to view the full 10-minute film. #screendance #dancefilm #traddancefilm #traddanceonscreen #activism #artivism #PomegranatesFestival #uganda #mhairicollie #thebrightfabricoflife #birlinn #ugandachilldbirthinjuryfund #fistula #fistulatreatment #fistulasurgery #worldhealthorganization #womenhealth #childbirthinjury
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1 year ago