Altar Sessions Returns to Konsthall C

Altar Sessions Fall Dates: September 13th, October 11th, November 1st, November 15th. 

Saturdays from 14-17 at Konsthall C.

Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, or in other more anglicised words, we need each other. We need each other as co-conspirators, comrades and witnesses, especially in our struggles for liberation. Altar Sessions gathers us around the altar as a practice of fortifying our connections, both active and latent, practiced and neglected, new and old.

The altar is where we commune with our ancestors and guides, nature spirits and other helpful beings. The altar can be thought of as a living archive, where we call on and engage with the myriad of lineages and ancient relationships that hail us here into being. Altar Sessions understands and practices the altar as a portal and place of gathering where linear time-space is disrupted, cartesian logics (such as body/mind, spirit/matter, man/nature), central to modernity’s epistemes, are disregarded and the bodymindspirit relation is recovered and centered. The altar is a tool that signals an otherwise that is already here and embodied. 

Altar Sessions occurs around an elemental altar, an altar containing signifiers of the elements of water, fire, air and earth. At the heart of Altar Sessions is exchange and the simple practice of listening and speaking with intention as a means to create connections deeper than when the exchange had begun.  Positioning such exchange at the altar is about acknowledging that we come into being through and with that which is seen and unseen and are in turn sustained by it. Altar Sessions invites participants to gather around the altar and to share in its methodologies.

These sessions are open to all, no sign ups necessary. Altar Sessions will be conducted in English, but accommodate Swedish speaking community members. 

Saleen Gomani. Altar Session for Black Healing in Scorched Landscapes is a continuation of Black Female Form—an ongoing artistic project by Sarah Nakiito. May 2025.

About: Mmabatho Thobejane (she/they) is a South African cultural worker and sangoma based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a conduit to ancestors who, through pono ya moya, an African Traditional Health practice, provide spiritual guidance to those who seek their services. As a curator who is a sangoma, Mmabatho creates spaces that can connect us with ancient wisdom and guidance that rumbles quietly but consistently, waiting to be noticed and aligned with.