Tirza Balk
Tirza Balk uses poetry, music and movement to respond to questions of extractivism and displacement. They are interested in memory, unlikely alliances and what it takes for people to escape the roles they were assigned in keeping the world as it is.
The two-year Planetary Poetics artistic research programme co-hosted by Framer Framed was spent researching colonial recruitment strategies across four continents and generations, drawing on fantasy and world, as well as personal, histories to identify – and interrupt – patterns of ethnonationalism and war. In their practice, Balk seeks to pair these interrogations with an uncompromising excitement for life on this ancient planet.
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