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*Korle Yafoo means 'Korle's tears' in Ga.
Korle is a female spirit manifested in the lagoon. Today her once fertile land is buried underneath mountains of unwanted clothes and poisenous emissions of burning polyester. Far away from our selfunderstanding and sustainable narratuve in the Nordics.

Korle Yaafo - transformations in a tormented landscape is a nomadic immersive installation awakening sensous and tactile connections to the fast fashion wasteland of the global north in Korle Lagoon in Accra.


We invite you to enter a dying landscape created by textiles from the lagoon. Audiences and performers immerse together in search of connectedness. To materials. To life. To the suffocating soil and water of Korle. To the other side of the Atlanic.

The installation unfolds itself with socio-poetic realism in empty shop locations around the Nordics, opening the doors into a transformative landscape. At the same time a dystopic reality and the potential opening for collective transformation.

Korle Yaafo is created in collaboration between the choreographers Nii-tete Yartey (GH) and Ingrid Tranum Velásquez (DK), visual artist Stina Aletta Aikio (Sápmi/FI), installationartist and scenographer Annika Nilsson (DK/SE) and composer Rune Søchting (DK), together with dancers from NOYAM & NextDoor Project.

Initial project research took place in august 2024 under working title REMAINS, supported by Nordisk Kulturfond Globus Opstart.