Artistic research project (2025-2026)
Since 2018, Tender Motor has been exploring the connection between voice, body and movement through choreographic methods. “Motor” comes from the Latin ‘movere’ meaning “to move” – the one or the thing that sets something in motion. In the work, the voice is as much a motor of movement as the body. Through a variety of approaches and methods, the group investigate how we can connect with and release different sound bodies at the intersection of voice, breath and choreography.
In the research project “Sonorous dances and reverberant matters” we want to investigate the voice as a performative force that affects both the inner and the outer reality, through manifestations of new relationships, affective associations and sensory experiences. We want to explore and deepen our existing working methods through encounters with new spatialities and artistic exchanges. The research project also includes ways to develop our documentation and how to share our practice and research with a wider audience.
Tender Motor
Tender Motor is a non-disciplinary performance trio with backgrounds in visual arts, poetry, choreography, dance, and art curation. The group consists of Kajsa Wadhia, Moa Franzén, and Tove Salmgren, a collaboration that has been exploring performance art and choreography since 2018 at the intersection of sound, breath, and movement. The group composes, improvises, and creates live works, curated events, and publications based on a radically process-oriented method that integrates all aspects of their lives into their shared artistic practice. Since January 2025, the group has been running the two-year research project Sonorous Dances and Reverberant Matters, supported by Stockholm University of the Arts’ internal artistic research program.
The research project was presented within SKH research week (2025) and within The International Deleuze and Guattari studies conference at Konstfack (2025). The project will be part of “The Listening Biennial” at Fylkingen, Stockholm, October 2025.