Teatterikorkeakoulun esitystaiteen ja teorian maisteriohjelman kansainvälinen Live Art Festival & Symposium järjestetään toista kertaa 3.-10.6.2009.
Päivittäin sekä luentoja ja työpajoja että esityksiä.
Esitystiedot alla ja kokonaisaikataulu (symposiumi ja esitykset) liitteenä.
Lisätietoja ja ilmoittautumiset symposiumiin: suunnittelija Anna Nybondas anna.nybondas@teak.fi ja lisätietoja esityksistä: tuottaja Johanna Autio, johanna.autio@teak.fi
Liput 5/2euroa
Lipunmyynti:
Teatterikorkeakoulu
(ma-pe) p. 09 – 4313 6256 /1h ovi
Haapaniemenkatu 6
00530 Helsinki
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The MA degree programme in Performance Art and Theory has been exploring issues of performance art, performativity, corporeality and events, and we hope that you, too, will join us for a festival of public performances, workshops and a symposium with presentations and discussions.
Performances June 3rd to 10th, 2009
Wed 3.6.2009
at 7.30pm / Studio 2
Caterini Dinopoulou:
Alter -egos
Alter-egos is an interactive digital performance that explores the concept of the complexity of the self using a visual and kinesthetic language. Through expressive dance movement and symbolic imagery, the performance describes the development of one’s personality both through the social interaction and the internal impulses. An animalistic movement focuses on the exploration of unusual forms where the shadows of the dancer become part of the choreography. The mechanical movement of the dancer -implying the rhythm of a contemporary metropolis – meets the motion quality of digital software, which is also used to manipulate live video projections during the performance. Alter-egos is an interdisciplinary work where real and imagined worlds co-exist as digital projected bodies interact with the physical body of a dancer not only as a reflection but also as an alter-ego, defining a surreal and cinematic aesthetic.
Thu 4.6.2009
from 6pm to 8pm /Studio 1
Marko Alastalo:
Brainwave Music Lab: Demonstration III
Brainwave Music Laboratory is a unique, quasi-scientific project, the purpose of which is to find interactive applications of brainwave music through various trial-and-error experiments. Our agenda is to make it possible for everyone to effortlessly create emotion-compatible real-time music with their own brainwaves – thus making the whole music recording industry completely unnecessary.
The upcoming third demonstration of BWM Lab is also a self-contained experiment with human test subjects. If you want to participate in our experiment as a test subject, contact us. The test is physically painless and takes only fifteen minutes: we just take a little music sample out of your brain for further use.
At 7pm / Studio 2
Caterini Dinopoulou:
Alter-egos
Alter-egos is an interactive digital performance that explores the concept of the complexity of the self using a visual and kinesthetic language. Through expressive dance movement and symbolic imagery, the performance describes the development of one’s personality both through the social interaction and the internal impulses. An animalistic movement focuses on the exploration of unusual forms where the shadows of the dancer become part of the choreography. The mechanical movement of the dancer -implying the rhythm of a contemporary metropolis – meets the motion quality of digital software, which is also used to manipulate live video projections during the performance. Alter-egos is an interdisciplinary work where real and imagined worlds co-exist as digital projected bodies interact with the physical body of a dancer not only as a reflection but also as an alter-ego, defining a surreal and cinematic aesthetic.
at 8.30pm /Studio 3
Aline Keller:
The Place of The Speakers
In a room that is reduced to its bareness, a discussion is transmitted via four loudspeakers. There are six voices involved in this discussion and – as they assert – they inhabit invisible bodies and spaces. The discussion focuses around the communication of these peculiar bodies and spaces as they struggle to allocate themselves in a fixed place.
Concept: Aline Keller (CH)
Participants: Derek Brunen (CA), Cornelia Heusser (CH), Alessandro Guida (IT), Rachel Carey (USA), Marnie Slater (NZ), Josh Thies (USA)
Technical/Sound: Roel Meelkop (NL)
Fri 5.6.2009
at 6 pm /Studio 1
Shannon Roszell & Cara Brostrom:
Round Trip
Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, our bodies lost track of where they were, where they were going, and how they managed to get there. In an effort to reorient ourselves we learned to measure the distance between two places in miles instead of hours. Unwilling to accept the limitations of the body, we rely on the latent possibilities of the mind and an undeniable sense of wonder.
Aberystwyth University MA candidates and fellow North Americans, Cara Brostrom and Shannon Roszell, explore the body in flight in this devised performance.
at 7pm /Studio 3
Working group – AesthEthics:
AesthEthics
AesthEthics is a performance demonstration, which discusses the relations between the performer and the viewer and the role of ethics in performance. We invite the audience to explore the questions together with the performers through a series of staged situations and encounters. Each scene begins with a negotiation, through which the viewer and performer can reach an agreement that suits both parties. No satisfaction guaranteed.
The demonstration is based on the group’s ongoing research and practice. Their work focuses on the interaction between the viewers and the performers as well as on the experiences resulting from it. The performances are centered around the bodily contact and communication that emerge from the situations at hand as well as the quality and content of the one-on-one encounters. The situations created within the performance context often require a radical re-evaluation and redefinition of the conventions that frame all human interaction. Through the questioning of one’s moral relationship and responsibility towards the Other, both ethics and aesthetics become actively present. The emphasis lies in the inner experience of the viewer; the feelings, states, thoughts and worlds that open up within him or her in the performative context and beyond.
Group: Julius Elo, Saara Hannula, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Tuomas Laitinen, Maija Mustonen, Linda Priha, Anni Rissanen
at 8.30pm / Studio 2
Cara Davies:
A Mark, A Line, A Trace, A Scar
There is a human form; a body; a live, a present being.
There is a screen; a silhouette; a trace, an outline of a human form.
There is meeting and parting: transition: how these forms multiple and divide, merge and collide.
Weaving in and out of the theatrical space to establish a mark, a sense of being. I was once there, and now I am here, trying to encounter what has once past. Can this be relived? Can I aspire to recreate this original form, to embody the quality of this ideal image? Can I thus determine a line, a bond, a connection between one state and another?
:pause:
Is this not already a trace, a trace of footage, a trace of the body… do I want to create a trace or is this just a scar, a mark a personal imprint on the anatomy of my muscular and cerebral memory.
A Mark, A Line, A Trace, A Scar is a reflection and creation on the human body and its relationship to digital documentation. It embarks on a process of engagement with present and absent human forms, wishing to explore the means by which we re-view and re-present documentation. The performance work examines the roles and relationships of the human form when a live body is forced to interact with a digital representation of what it once performed and experienced. Can it live up to expectations, can it compete with the captured, now idealised version, of a moment in its history?
Michael Shanks:
“How do we gain an understanding through the things we leave behind?
How do we make sense of these items, memories, records? How can we utilise them and uncover new frameworks for performing?” (Performance Presence Conference, March 2009)
Sat 6.6.2009
from 12pm to 5 pm / Studio 1
Video screening of performance works
free entrance
from 11am to 6pm /Lobby
Leena Kela:
Visit / vierailu
online performance
How often does she clean her house?
Does she sleep on her back, on her side or on her stomach? What kind of dreams does she have?
Does she get easily bruised? Does she like children? What languages she can speak?
Is she grumpy in the mornings? Is she loud?
What is her most embarrassing memory? How about the dearest memory?
Does she feed ducks in the park?
Is she interested in politics? Is she religious? Does she shave her armpits?
Does she ever cross the street with the red traffic lights?
www.elenaelak.com
Elena Elak is an alter ego of a performance artist Leena Kela. Elena’s life became public during May 2009, when she lived 4 weeks in her own apartment. There she had her own furniture, objects, clothes and the every day routines. The apartment was equipped with four surveillance cameras, through which the audience could watch her life in real time.
Elena has now started her own life. For the time of the performance Leena Kela detached herself from her own social and everyday life, she hadn’t met her family or friends or answered her phone or emails. Her character changed into Elena’s, who has completely her own social networks and areas of interests.
Even though May is over, Elena is still alive and lives in her apartment. Now she wants to invite people of the Live Art festival to visit her on Saturday 6th of June from 11am to 6pm. The surveillance cameras are also still on, so the audience can watch her either by visiting her web pages www.elenaelak.com or coming to visit her in real life.
Elena is formed during the two years that Kela has been examining her alter egos and social roles in co-operation with hypnotist Heljä Suuronen-Geib and later on spending time as Elena. In hypnosis she has been researching her past lives and found out that she has for example been a Moroccan snake dancer, middle class wife and a hermit forester.
These characters have also influenced Elena’s personality.
The performance is examining the possibilities of feeling like another person, having different ways of operating and thinking in every day situations, and achieving different kinds of corporeal experiences, which are still framed by one’s own bodily entity. Where does the feeling of selfhood come from? Is there originally more than one me?
Or is it absolutely impossible to create another personality for oneself? What is fact and what is fiction in my own existence? How could I become an Other?
Welcome to visit Elena!
You will find more info on the web pages or from the lobby of Theatre Academy.
at 12pm /Lobby
A performance by Christian Bujold
The point of the project is to find a point to the project, you and me. My body altering your body’s trajectory on the sheet of paper. We’re gonna dance together, sometimes with tenderness, sometimes with sensuality, sometimes with aggression or violence. We will mark each other, in pleasure or danger. When was the last you’ve experience a real risk within an artwork? Our hands and forearms constantly looking for a reason to be there, and actually finding one, or many. We’re gonna do something, trying to loose any sign of an intention, your arms as a synecdoche of your entire self. You’ll focus on the sheet, like if she was the only place left free in the world, but it will be a coded space, delimited by your own self-imposed rules. Will you respect or transgress them? Are you a free being? You’ll draw even if you don’t know why.
at 3pm / Walking tour – starting from TeaK’s ticket office Touko Heikkinen:
HumanNatureTour in Helsinki City Landscape
HumanNatureTour in Helsinki City Landscape is a guided tour of the nature surroundings of the Theatre Academy. During the tour we will be experiencing the self, nature, and human nature.
from 12am to 6pm / Performed around Helsinki, beginning and ending at TeaK Johanna MacDonald:
Performer vs Real Live
This performer was born and raised in a black box, where focus is friendly and spectators forget about the rest of their lives for a period of time. How long can I make you forget about real life while it surrounds us instead?
Route map available from TeaK’s ticket office) Free entrance
from 1pm to 3pm / Starting from TeaK’s ticket office (Event will happen in Teak and surroundings.) Karolina Kucia:
Ooops! Sorry or Frankestain – work in progress
What is lapsus?
It is:
a slip, lipsahdus
a natural appearing joke,
a mistake,
language mistake,
expression mistake,
unconsciously appearing refrain,
sometimes moment lost from memory: a memory mistake, faux pas, blunder, boob – kömmähdys.
“Ooops! Sorry! Or Frankenstain” is project (research) on: what lapsus actually means personally and how does it happen in action, what kind of event is it? The goal of the research is to try to use lapsus as a tool or catalyser in observing a public space and in making public space event. This process is dealing with lapsus and refrain, cooperation and duration.
As working tool we use personal experiences with lapsus and some kind of invention: “Re-animation” the various documentary tools combined into the video-animation, which is used to document practices but also to initiate practices. It is a tool between live action and mechanical manipulation, live re-enactment and mechanical analysis.
Yes, it might sound a bit confusing, to be even more or less confused welcome to see the demonstration of the work in progress.
Working group: Stein Arnesen, Tanja Kangas, Tanja Kangas, Raita Virkkunen
Free entrance
at 6pm/Studio 1
FestivalClub
programme will be confirmed later
Mon 8.6.2009
at 7pm / Studio 2
Katie Keeble:
Bodies of water/From Here – To the Sea
Bodies of Water/From Here – To the Sea is a working title for a collaboration between music and dance where we are exploring the interconnectedness of sound and movement. The piece experiments in combining contemporary music and dance, film, and photography in a synergetic and idiosyncratic way, and captures the essence of differing masses and states of water. The piece is for Violin, Percussion, Tape, Live Electronics, Dancer(s), and Film.
at 8pm /Lobby
Monika Drozynska & Marta Ziolek:
My name is Monika. My name is Marta.
“My name is Monika. My name is Marta” is a performance that tackles the problem of how a subject is perceived as a sexual object and defined by its bodily functions. A crucial context for particular actions is the analysis of female subjectivity, defining the identity in terms of inscription and transformation of bodily “surface.” What is on the surface defines what is inside. It is the performative aspect of our body which constitutes our mental identity.
Tue 9.6.2009
at 7pm/Studio 3
Kristina Junttila:
Exercise of Freedom
“Exercise of Freedom” is part of a series of exercises in freedom, performed in different public spaces every week by Kristina Junttila. The exercises are easy everyday tasks and can be performed by anybody. The exercise performed during the live art festival will be set in a theatre studio at her school and will be the 19th in the series.
at 8pm /Studio 2
Pilvi Porkola:
How to Be A Performance Artist?
What does it mean to create a performance? How should we deal with realities and the performance tradition? Should I have a dead animal and where do I get it? Who will fetch the kid from day care? And who knows where the art is? How To Be A Performance Artist is one way of answering the many questions the making of a performance raises. It creates a space for an artistic language and helps focusing on the basics of performativity, in everyday life and art.
>From 3.-6.6. Interactive sound installation by Jacek Smolicki free entrance Lobby