Stina Force is a one-woman punk band that must be experienced live. No recordings exist, and no two shows are alike. With improvised voice experiments, grotesque monologues, and the raw beating of drums, Fors pins her audience against the wall before disarming them with wit and vulnerability. Her performances unfold in real time, full of risk and tension, veering between control and collapse. Performed in clubs, galleries, festivals, rooftops, and even ponds, Stina Force transforms any space into a charged arena of sound and presence.
duration 50′
Stina Fors(b.1989, SE) crafts unique, once-in-a-lifetime performances, with a certain taste for the absurd and strange. As a self- taught drummer and shocking vocalist, Fors tours with her one-woman-punk-band, Stina Force, a band that must be experienced live—characterized by spontaneity—no two performances are alike. Extended ventriloquism and overtone screams can both be seen and heard in her recent work, “A Mouthful of Tongues,” – a magic show where the voice appears detached from the performer’s body. Her work is packed with tension, humor, and raw power. Additionally, she imparts her knowledge, teaching techniques to produce extreme voices like death growls without vocal damage.
Stina studied choreography at the SNDO school for new dance development in Amsterdam, currently residing in Vienna, Austria.
Artist statement
Stina Fors’ practice is a reminder of how fun and terrifying it is to have a mouth, and to be able to make sounds with it. The voice is her primary instrument—stretching from overtone screams to ventriloquism, from nightcore-like mumblings to guttural noises. Yet her work resists being an acrobatic showcase of technique. Instead, it exposes the flawed, messy nature of the voice as a tool, and the fragility of words as carriers of meaning.
Her performances explore moments when the body and voice slip out of alignment: sometimes channelling others, sometimes collapsing into chaos, sometimes transforming failure into an act of invention. The works are humorous, raw, and risky—placing vulnerability at the center while opening up unpredictable encounters with audiences.
Stina is a performance artist, choreographer, experimental vocalist and a drummer. Her solo performances draw on punk energy, improvisation, and theatricality, transforming spaces from galleries to theaters, rooftops, ponds, and offices into laboratories of sound and presence. Whether through clowning, drumming, or grotesque monologues, her work unsettles expectations and provokes laughter, unease, and recognition. And placing ephemerality at the center. At the heart of her practice lies a simple but urgent question: what can we discover when we listen differently to the voice, to the body, and to each other?