FACILITATION, EDUCATION & CULTURE WORK
Artistic and cultural work are deeply interconnected in Kemê’s practice. In both, she creates sensorial, symbolic, and social spaces where people can encounter one another, reflect, and imagine transformation. Her work as a cultural worker grows from her situated experience, ongoing learning, and many years of practice within antiracism, antidiscrimination, accessibility, equity, and intersectional feminism.
Her work begins from the understanding that meaningful change cannot be reduced to a checklist or manual, but requires commitment to an ongoing process of reflection, inquiry, and shared learning. She facilitates spaces for organisations to look more closely at how power, assumptions, habits, and structures shape their work, and to consider what may need to change.
Her facilitation makes room for complexity, vulnerability, uncertainty, and disagreement, while remaining attentive to consent, access, and the different ways in which people participate, communicate, and learn.
Kemê works with cultural organisations, artistic communities, institutions, networks, and working groups through workshops, facilitated conversations, consultation, moderation, critical friendship, and ongoing learning processes. Each collaboration is shaped in relation to its particular context and the people involved, rather than being offered as a fixed training package.
• antiracist and antidiscrimination practice within cultural and artistic contexts
• cultural safety, accessibility, and more equitable conditions for participation
• reflection on power, positionality, accountability, and decision-making
• communication, expectations, boundaries, and the conditions needed for collaboration
• facilitation that supports reflection, shared learning, and changes in practice
Her approach is also informed by neuroaffirmative practice and by her ongoing engagement with and learning from disability justice. Across these areas, she is particularly interested in how spaces can support greater awareness, shared responsibility, and more transparent uses of power.
Her work brings care and criticality together, recognising that care does not require avoiding discomfort, disagreement, or difficult questions. It can also mean creating conditions in which people can try, make mistakes, take responsibility, and continue learning together.
Globe Art Point
The Artists’ Association of Finland
Cupore
Catalysti Ry
Cultural Centre Caisa
City of Helsinki
Hivpoint
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Suomen Tarinat Museum partners
The Nordic Library Network
Hanaholmen Cultural Centre
HAM Helsinki Art Museum
Pixelache Festival
NODE Centre
MIELI Mental Health Finland
Linde Finland
Creative Europe
SPOR Festival (DK)
University of Oulu
Bioart Society
SPACE – Supporting Professionals and Academics for Community Engagement in Higher Education
Oulu for All
Luckan Integration
City of Vantaa
The FAIRE Finnish Artist Residency Network
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
Scuola nazionale del patrimonio e delle attività culturali (It)
The Nordic Arts Councils (NO, SE, DK, FI)
Kemê is a certified Diversity Agent through Culture for All and has been part of the curatorial team of #StopHatredNow, organised by UrbanApa, since 2019.
Artistic and cultural work are deeply interconnected in Kemê’s practice. In both, she creates sensorial, symbolic, and social spaces where people can encounter one another, reflect, and imagine transformation. Her work as a cultural worker grows from her situated experience, ongoing learning, and many years of practice within antiracism, antidiscrimination, accessibility, equity, and intersectional feminism.
Her work begins from the understanding that meaningful change cannot be reduced to a checklist or manual, but requires commitment to an ongoing process of reflection, inquiry, and shared learning. She facilitates spaces for organisations to look more closely at how power, assumptions, habits, and structures shape their work, and to consider what may need to change.
Her facilitation makes room for complexity, vulnerability, uncertainty, and disagreement, while remaining attentive to consent, access, and the different ways in which people participate, communicate, and learn.
Kemê works with cultural organisations, artistic communities, institutions, networks, and working groups through workshops, facilitated conversations, consultation, moderation, critical friendship, and ongoing learning processes. Each collaboration is shaped in relation to its particular context and the people involved, rather than being offered as a fixed training package.
Areas of work
Her work can include:• antiracist and antidiscrimination practice within cultural and artistic contexts
• cultural safety, accessibility, and more equitable conditions for participation
• reflection on power, positionality, accountability, and decision-making
• communication, expectations, boundaries, and the conditions needed for collaboration
• facilitation that supports reflection, shared learning, and changes in practice
Her approach is also informed by neuroaffirmative practice and by her ongoing engagement with and learning from disability justice. Across these areas, she is particularly interested in how spaces can support greater awareness, shared responsibility, and more transparent uses of power.
Her work brings care and criticality together, recognising that care does not require avoiding discomfort, disagreement, or difficult questions. It can also mean creating conditions in which people can try, make mistakes, take responsibility, and continue learning together.
Selected collaborations
Kemê has worked with, for, and alongside cultural organisations, public institutions, networks, community initiatives, and international projects, including:Globe Art Point
The Artists’ Association of Finland
Cupore
Catalysti Ry
Cultural Centre Caisa
City of Helsinki
Hivpoint
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Suomen Tarinat Museum partners
The Nordic Library Network
Hanaholmen Cultural Centre
HAM Helsinki Art Museum
Pixelache Festival
NODE Centre
MIELI Mental Health Finland
Linde Finland
Creative Europe
SPOR Festival (DK)
University of Oulu
Bioart Society
SPACE – Supporting Professionals and Academics for Community Engagement in Higher Education
Oulu for All
Luckan Integration
City of Vantaa
The FAIRE Finnish Artist Residency Network
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
Scuola nazionale del patrimonio e delle attività culturali (It)
The Nordic Arts Councils (NO, SE, DK, FI)
Kemê is a certified Diversity Agent through Culture for All and has been part of the curatorial team of #StopHatredNow, organised by UrbanApa, since 2019.
CONTACT
You can contact Kemê on the contact section of this site or here. Link https://onehatmanyheads.com/contact-formPUBLICATIONS
Actualise Utopia: From dreams to reality. An anthology about racial barriers in the structure of the Nordic arts field, by editor Ninos Josef and project Kemê Pellicer. Published by Arts Council Norway, 2019. Download
- 2022, “On Critical Feedback - Deal with it”. Article commissioned for the Culture for All Service’s blog. Read Part I & Part II
- 2021, An introduction to trigger and content warnings (guide written for the Diversity Agents 2.0 course ). Download
- 2020, Poem & Welcome words for #StopHatredNow 2020 – New Standards Read
- 2020, Speech at the concluding seminar of AVAUS (Opening) organised by Globe Art Point. Read
- 2019, Conversation on the making of the anthology Actualise Utopia Watch
- 2019, Critical Friends: Recommendations Download
- 2019, In Search of True Inclusion and Practice, Collaboration, Nordic Forum for Interculture (NFI). Download
- 2019, “A letter” text for #StopHatredNow festival Read
- 2019, Closing words at the “Opening the Nordic art sector” seminar Read
RESOURCES / LINKS
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