Performance as a
Meeting Point for Humans and Non-humans
Wed 7.11. / Thu 8.11. / Sat 10.11. & Sun 11.11.
14:00-17:00
The workshop will be held both in Finnish and in English.
Place: Esitystaiteen Keskus, Suvilahti
Participation fee: 30 euros
Sign ups: dotankhelsinki@gmail.com
The contents of the workshop will be shared with audience in
DO TANK Afternoon on Sunday 11.11. at 15:00-18:00.
In
this workshop by performance artist Tuija Kokkonen and activist Sami Säynevirta
both share their operating strategies and together seek different opportunities
for influencing society in the middle-ground between activism and art. The
workshop focuses on the interaction of human and non-human beings and processes
of nature through the ideas of French eco-philosopher and sociologist Bruno
Latour. The participants get acquainted with the basis of ecological
performance art and work on different experimental performances in Suvilahti
and other urban spaces.
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| Searching for the Non-human / Photo: Annuska Dal Maso |
Tuija Kokkonen is a director, writer and researcher based in Helsinki, Finland. Since 1996 she has worked on a series of site-specific ‘memo performances’, as the director and the artistic director of Maus&Orlovski, an ever-changing performance collective of artists from various fields. The memos are explorations on relationships between performance, environment/nature and time, and the role of art at the age of ecological crises. They chart terrains between genres of art, between species; terrains where aesthetics, ethics and politics are inseparable. Since 1999 the memos have been performed in the program of Kiasma Theatre/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Her current (since 2006) doctoral research project at the Theatre Academy Helsinki is titled "The Potential Nature of Perforhip to the Non-Human in the Performance Event from the Perspective of Duration and Potentiality”. The work incorporates a new series of performances called Memos of Time - performances with and for non-humans.
Sami Säynevirta is a long-term animal rights activist. He has worked for the rights of production animals as well as for the existence of wild beasts. He has been, especially, active in protecting wolves. Säynevirta has an adopted stray dog from Viborg and he is a vegan.
Her current (since 2006) doctoral research project at the Theatre Academy Helsinki is titled "The Potential Nature of Perforhip to the Non-Human in the Performance Event from the Perspective of Duration and Potentiality”. The work incorporates a new series of performances called Memos of Time - performances with and for non-humans.
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| Tuija Kokkonen, Sami Säynevirta & Kolja / Photo: Annuska Dal Maso |
Sami Säynevirta is a long-term animal rights activist. He has worked for the rights of production animals as well as for the existence of wild beasts. He has been, especially, active in protecting wolves. Säynevirta has an adopted stray dog from Viborg and he is a vegan.
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| Photo: Annuska Dal Maso |
Wed 7.11. / Thu 8.11. / Sat 10.11. & Sun 11.11.
14:00-17:00
The workshop will be held both in Finnish and in English.
Place: Esitystaiteen Keskus, Suvilahti
Participation fee: 30 euros
Sign ups: dotankhelsinki@gmail.com
The contents of the workshop will be shared with audience in
DO TANK Afternoon on Sunday 11.11. at 15:00-18:00.
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