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Performance Series
"Counting days: 51 - 75 - 155"The performer keeps falling and rising up. Again and again.
The project's idea got started from the picture of a dead woman's hand
in Bucha. The performer is falling the number of days since the war
in Ukraine started. The audience keeps counting.
Performed in Mexico (51 days) and twice in Oulu (75, 155 days).
Duration 30 min.
Performance Series
Counting days:The performer keeps falling and rising up. Again and again.
The project's idea got started from the picture of a dead woman's hand
in Bucha. The performer is falling the number of days since the war
in Ukraine started. The audience keeps counting.
Performed in Mexico (51 days)
and twice in Finland (75, 155 days).
Duration 30 min.
Performance "When my life was a burden"
Wearing 20 kilos of black dough around the city.
Eventually, the performer gets rid of the burden by
pinching off small pieces. experiencing, how the body
adapts to freedom.
How does it feel - to lose your restrictions?
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 2 hours.
Performance
"When my life
was a burden"
Wearing 20 kilos of black dough
around the city.
Eventually, the performer gets rid of the burden
by pinching off small pieces.
experiencing, how the body
adapts to freedom.
How does it feel - to lose your restrictions?
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 2 hours.
Performance "Stress or Mistress"
The performer is drumming on the bag of flour in the city center.
Performance is a comment on social bullying of
Finland's prime minister Sanna Marin for her dancing at the party and rumors about her taking cocaine. In Finnish slang, they use the words "jauho" - flour, and "jauhojengi" - flour people.
The performer makes a circle at the action spot with the flour. Being covered with flour, the performer explores dance movements, which were criticized by the public.
Oulu, Finland 2022.
Duration 20 minutes.
Performance
"Stress or Mistress"
The performer is drumming on the bag of flour in the city center.
Performance is a comment on social bullying of
Finland's prime minister Sanna Marin for her dancing at the party and rumors about her taking cocaine. In Finnish slang, they use the words "jauho" - flour, and "jauhojengi" - flour people.
The performer makes a circle at the action spot with the flour. Being covered with flour, the performer explores dance movements, which were criticized by the public.
Oulu, Finland 2022.
Duration 20 minutes.
Performance "Neverlost in Kuhasalo"
The performer walks barefoot and blindfolded by the newly built road into the wild nature. Over 2 km long.
"After walking the road my brain could sense nothing more than an even layer of crushed stones - through touch, sound, smell. Walking more by the path, I collected feelings of sorrow and desperation inside my body. Forest became roughly divided into the territory of humans and the territory of Nature. Segregation here was seen as a way of accessibility, as a way to use the forest as a green gym or a comfortable scenery to the fireplace where we fry sausages.
My visibility is dramatically cut, I can see only my toes, but thanks to the new road, I have no chance to get lost in Kuhasalo."
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes.
Performance
"Neverlost in Kuhasalo"
The performer walks barefoot and blindfolded by the newly built road into the wild nature. Over 2 km long.
"After walking the road my brain could sense nothing more than an even layer of crushed stones - through touch, sound, smell. Walking more by the path, I collected feelings of sorrow and desperation inside my body. Forest became roughly divided into the territory of humans and the territory of Nature. Segregation here was seen as a way of accessibility, as a way to use the forest as a green gym or a comfortable scenery to the fireplace where we fry sausages.
My visibility is dramatically cut, I can see only my toes, but thanks to the new road, I have no chance to get lost in Kuhasalo."
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes.
Performance "Price of Peace"
The ritualistic sequence of actions.
A female here is seen as a magical creature. Same time she is a tool for satisfying the common needs of patriarchal society.
In the end, a woman's body and faith are the prices to pay for
men's violence in the world. And the Hope, she is the silent Hope.
Performance is inspired by the plant Nopal, which grows in a Mexican dry climate, finds a place among rocks, and provides locals with nutrition.
Norogachi, Mexico 2022.
Duration 20 minutes.
Performance
"Price of Peace"
The ritualistic sequence of actions.
A female here is seen as a magical creature. Same time she is a tool for satisfying the common needs of patriarchal society.
In the end, a woman's body and faith
are the prices to pay for men's violence in the world. And the Hope, she is the silent Hope.
Performance is inspired by the plant Nopal, which grows in a Mexican dry climate, finds a place among rocks, and provides locals with nutrition.
Norogachi, Mexico 2022.
Duration 20 minutes.
Performance "Seeable"
The performer stands covered with a transparent plastic file next to a statue, repeating its posture. Sculptor Anssi Kasitonni's sculpture's title is "The Most Unknown Poet".
I used to be unknown to myself.
I think I want to know myself better.
But that takes courage. I'll try.
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 15 minutes.
Performance "Seeable"
The performer stands covered with a transparent plastic file next to a statue, repeating its posture. Sculptor Anssi Kasitonni's sculpture's title is
"The Most Unknown Poet".
I used to be unknown to myself.
I think I want to know myself better.
But that takes courage. I'll try.
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 15 minutes.
Performance "Abundance"
The performer makes interventions in the city space and plants
about 50 sausages on the lawn. Each of them is carved in "a penis shape".
The newly created sight is offered to citizens
to observe the abundance of Nature and wide possibilities of networks among people. There one can think about beauty, forgiveness, joy, acceptance, polarities,
or even Death.
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 1 hour 20 minutes.
Performance "Abundance"
The performer makes interventions in the city space and plants
about 50 sausages on the lawn.
Each of them is carved in "a penis shape".
The newly created sight is offered to citizens to observe the abundance
of Nature and wide possibilities of networks among people.
There one can think about beauty, forgiveness, joy, acceptance, polarities,
or even Death.
Joensuu, Finland 2021.
Duration 1 hour 20 minutes.
Performance "I take it with me"
The performer travels from Oulu to Oslo (about 1400 km) by bus, airplanes, and train. There is no other luggage than two birch logs
(weight 13 and 12 kg).
"My performance started at home preparing to leave. I cooked dinner for my family and left with logs to the bus stop. I posted on social media about the progress.
My audience was online. On the bus, no one noticed, that I am on a performance mission. At the airport, the staff was amused, a young woman on a train asked
to take a picture of my bags. 2 days later I told about my journey at the Performance Art Oslo festival and finished up by standing outside and holding logs for about 20 minutes. I returned home without logs."
When leaving our country, family, and past, what do we take with us?
Oulu-Oslo, Finland-Norway 2016.
Duration 3 days.
Performance
"I take it with me"
The performer travels from Oulu to Oslo (about 1400 km) by bus, airplanes, and train. There is no other luggage than two birch logs (weight 13 and 12 kg).
"My performance started at home preparing to leave. I cooked dinner for my family and left with logs to the bus stop.
I posted on social media about the progress. My audience was online.
On the bus, no one noticed, that I am on a performance mission. At the airport, the staff was amused, a young woman on a train asked to take a picture of my bags. 2 days later I told about my journey at the Performance Art Oslo festival and finished up by standing outside and holding logs for about 20 minutes.
I returned home without logs."
When leaving our country, family, and past, what do we take with us?
Oulu-Oslo, Finland-Norway 2016.
Duration 3 days.
Performance "Opposite Kathy"
(Multa Katrriina)
Long durational exploration of body and behavior creativity.
The performer is aligned backward and invited to use the body's peripheral side
as a frontal.
We are crazy about food and food ideologies. About food rituals. About food information. We have plans for eating better. Or eating less... The performer erases identities of nutrition supplies and brings to the kitchen space only mud.
Plenty of mud.
Oulu, Finland 2016.
Duration 5 hours.
Performance
"Opposite Kathy"
(Multa Katriina)
Long durational exploration of body
and behavior creativity.
The performer is aligned backward and invited to use the body's peripheral side as a frontal.
We are crazy about food and food ideologies. About food rituals.
About food information. We have plans for eating better. Or eating less... The performer erases identities of nutrition supplies and brings to the kitchen space only mud.
Plenty of mud.
Oulu, Finland 2016.
Duration 5 hours.
Performance "Water Coin"
The sequence of actions with a coin in a bottle,
smaller and bigger black dots.
We live in a world where water is something to pay for.
Free water ends when you come out of the womb.
Tallinn, Estonia 2019.
Duration 20 min.
Performance "Water Coin"
The sequence of actions with a coin
in a bottle, smaller and bigger black dots.
We live in a world where water
is something to pay for.
Free water ends when you come out
of the womb.
Tallinn, Estonia 2019.
Duration 20 min.
Performance "Catwalk"
The performer walks upside down, walks on four,
walks as a model on a catwalk.
The performance is a reflection of a figure of motherhood. How do a woman's body and her self-awareness pass into the process of being attached to her child? Same time, how she keeps connections to her previous identity. How she sees her future, and the future of her bodily avatar as well.
Joensuu, Finland 2019.
Duration 20 min.
Performance "Catwalk"
The performer walks upside down,
walks on four, walks as a model on a catwalk.
The performance is a reflection of a figure of motherhood. How do a woman's body and her self-awareness pass into the process of being attached to her child? Same time, how she keeps connections to her previous identity. How she sees her future, and the future of her bodily avatar as well.
Joensuu, Finland 2019.
Duration 20 min.