Indra Linderoth
Indra Linderoth (b. 1984) is a queer actor, performance artist, voice coach, sound artist, and musician; one of the founders of the performance duo OFF HIGHWAY and part of the network Queers Against Fascism. She/They is a multidisciplinary artist working with human connection and listening.
“I work at the intersection of performing arts, sound art and performance, where the voice functions both as a tool for exploration and as a messenger – a way of listening rather than asserting. In my art, I am interested in vibrations, intimacy and queer bodies’ relationship to place, voice and collectivity. I search for expressions that not only communicate – but create connection and see sound as vibrations that create contact between bodies and space. As a kind of echo sounding where the voice reaches out towards that which does not yet have language, but is still felt. Through my works I try to access honesty, sometimes this means challenging traditional norms for performing arts and sometimes exploring new ways of communicating feelings, thoughts and ideas. In my creation, I work with active listening and presence and I am particularly interested in the interaction that can arise between the work and the people in the room who experience it. My works are experimental and audience-oriented, where the presence and experience of the participants is part of the work itself. My artistry becomes a dialogue – between different forms of expression, between me as an artist and the audience I meet, but also between the art and the world.”
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Indra Linderoth is born and raised in Gothenburg. Since 2008 they/she has lived mainly in Stockholm and Berlin working as an actor in theaters, creating music and solo-performances and apprenticed with Peter Teubner to become a voice coach. During that period they/she has also been apart of running and performing in three independent performing arts groups that have experimented in different ways with the creative process and the performers relationship to the audience:
2008 – 2013
The feminist and anarchist performance group TIR, which has shown its performing arts works in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Istanbul, among others.
2012 – 2013
Jordbro Stadsteater – a manifestation for the common and an action against privatization, gentrification and against the entire capitalist system.
2016 – 2019
OFF HIGHWAY – A performance duo where I experiment together with Nina Jeppsson around voice, listening, directions of the voice and what we call THE GAP or NOW-silence.
EDUCATION
Acting, Stockholm University of the Arts, 2008 – 2011
Master in Contemporary Performative Arts, University of Gothenburg, 2014 – 2016