1.-4.9.2021
Käsi | PREMIERE
22.9.–16.10.2021
Käsi deals with the hands, gestures and other parts of the body. The performance reaches out toward boundary experiences of the body, language and thinking. It focuses on the processes of emergence, densification, and thinning of meanings and associations.
Working group: Katariina Numminen, Hanna Ahti, Laura Rämä, Atte Kantonen, Julia Jäntti, Johanna Autio, Riitta Röpelinen
FROM THE DEAD AIR ORGY: On The Nature of Things
12.–16.10.2021. Part of the BAD HOUSE -festival
The piece is a series of five broadcasts being transmitted live from a hidden location somewhere on the outskirts of Helsinki. Each broadcast reveals a developing narrative from a location from which the audience has been removed. Each broadcast revolves around the poem On The Nature of Things by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c.99BC - c.55BC). His poem of atomism, physics, and the understanding of reality will be re-translated through artificial intelligence software to produce a series of premonitions for an imagined future.
Working group: Simon Vincenzi, Will Saunders, Kath Duggan, Tiago Martins Pinto
Helsinki Performance Art Symposium
22.& 23.10.2021
Helsinki Performance Art Symposium offers a glimpse into the range of performance art created in our city. The artists take turns to comment on social matters, open up their inner worlds and ponder on some eternal questions of a universal nature, but also dissect performance art itself – the state and shape of it in the Helsinki of the 2020s.
Artists: Ilkka Sariola, Tomasz Szrama, Irma Optimisti, Sara Kovamäki, Heikki Mäntymaa, Timo Viialainen, Vili Nissinen, Inari Virmakoski and Maija Kivi.
The event was initiated by Maximilian Latva, Joonas Jokiranta and Katri Kainulainen who in the spirit of the symposium also all contribute with their own performances. Antti Ahonen, a photographer specialized in documenting performance art, is also part of the team.
Vappu Jalonen: AU | PREMIERE
25.–31.10.2021. The location TBC / Kalasatama
Inside the apartment is a body that fits it, inside the apartment is an alternate universe. Outside the apartment, people are preparing for the rising sea levels, 200 meters from the apartment there’s a well-being centre. Water’s gushing from the tap, the floor is hot underneath the occupant’s feet, the white noise in the apartment never falls silent.
AU is a speech performance by Vappu Jalonen about the norms of living, weakness and fantasy. Artistic consultation Elis Hannikainen.
Transquips
29.–30.10.2021
Can humor establish a dialogue between different cultures and languages? Is it actually possible to translate comedy? To find out, we have Transquips, a multicultural and multilingual comedy show! Using humor as an unbiased and inclusive platform, Transquips invites people to deliver a comedic performance in different languages, with a real-time translation.
Concept and production: Humberto Duque
Child Service | PREMIERE
8.–21.11.2021
Child Service is a performance where adult and child artists together study children and childhood. The adult artists approach the child by means of mimicry and imitation, using documentary material as a basis, while the child performers take the role of experts by experience.
Working group: Nora Rinne, Katri Soini, Joona Halonen, Aale Rinne, Aarni Rinne, Oliver Tervolin and Okko Yli-Vakkuri
Zuz Buchowska: Jellyfish | PREMIERE
22.–28.11.2021
Jellyfish is a stand-up comedy turned lie-down dramedy (because idk about you but i’m a bit tired these days) that talks about how weird it is to be human sometimes, but at least we’re in it together.
zuz (they/them) is a professional oversharer working with words, stories, bodies, sadness, and play.
Jamie MacDonald: Cuck | PREMIERE
22.–28.11.2021
Cuck is a new stand-up work exploring mockery and liberation, cucks and kings, the woke and the broke, and why we continue to torture ourselves with social media. While invisible actors profit, we provide our anxieties, humiliation, and pain to them for free, and compete for fifteen milliseconds of fame in the hottest take.
Jamie MacDonald is a Helsinki based artist working mostly in the field of stand-up comedy and performing arts.
Nurmi & Mäenmaa: Angela
29.11.–5.12.2021
Angela is a performative spoken word piece that deals with ageing, gender and generations. It gives a fresh and honest take to loss and fear of death. Two young women live fast now, but what happens when they eventually start going grey? Is one’s lovability born out of the illusion of youth? And how credible is an old woman in a position of power? This physical, musical piece explores dread in the face of the inevitable with a unique poetic language and has won acclaim for the ways it pushes the boundaries of art.
Angela is the first joint piece by Aura Nurmi and Emilia Mäenmaa.
Dayjob Collective: Idols 2020 | PREMIERE
6.–12.12.2021