FRESH is back! Initiated in 2018, New Performance Turku Festival brings back FRESH programme – the artistic development and performing opportunity for emerging performance and live artists based and working in Finland. FRESH-project is targeting performance art professionals who have … Continued
mirko nikolicin at New Performance Turku Festival 2018. Photo: Jussi Virkkumaa New Performance Turku Festival 2019 presents artists and experts, various collaborators and fresh insights into performance art and the society. The festival will be organized October 18-20th in local performance … Continued
New Performance Turku Festival toteutettiin tänä vuonna 21.-23. syyskuuta 2018. Kansainvälisellä performanssitaiteen festivaalilla nähtiin yhteensä 18 taiteilijaa, taiteilijaryhmää, aktivistia ja asiantuntijaa ympäri maailmaa. Festivaalin linjauksen mukaan kaikki esitykset ja festivaaliosiot olivat ilmaisia ja kaikille avoimia. Festivaali keräsikin kiitosta yleisöltään sekä … Continued
Westernistion is becoming Africa’s reality. Increasingly, our elites tell us that the west’s way is “modern” and “civilised”, echoing the early colonialists who dismissed our civilisations as “barbaric”, “archaic”, and “uncivilised” to install theirs. They tell us that our institutions … Continued
(VERY) LATE FESTIVAL BRUNCH: 23.9. kl. 15-18 Vanha Viinatehdas Manilla, Itäinen Rantakatu 64 The New Performance Turku Festival finishes on Sunday 23rd September with very late festival brunch between 15-18 by Gathering. Gluten free treats, mostly vegetarian, partly vegan. Coffee, … Continued
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You often work with time-based art. Do have any thoughts about that, in comparison with, for example, art that is more object-based? For me it all started from just a talent for art, then I became an illustrator under Communist … Continued
You are one of the leading artists in Finland who works actively with themes of decolonization. How do you work as an artist and what are you working with right now? My background was originally in graphic design, which I … Continued
You are publicly known as an activist, writer and feminist. How would you define yourself? I don’t define myself to a category. Work for me is about maintaining financial independence. Activism is reacting to the conditions in which I find … Continued
For Fanon, struggles for decolonization are first and foremost about self-ownership. They are struggles to repossess, to take back, if necessary by force that which is ours unconditionally and, as such, belong to us. What strategies you use in your … Continued
For Fanon, struggles for decolonization are first and foremost about self-ownership. They are struggles to repossess, to take back, if necessary by force that which is ours unconditionally and, as such, belong to us. What strategies you use in your … Continued
For Fanon, struggles for decolonization are first and foremost about self-ownership. They are struggles to repossess, to take back, if necessary by force that which is ours unconditionally and, as such, belong to us. What strategies you use in your … Continued
You are an artist whose work also operates in the field of activism. How would you introduce your artistic work and approach? What is your relation to decolonial thinking and practices? For me decolonial thinking is rebellious and resilient, therefore … Continued
You often work with time-based art. Do have any thoughts about that, in comparison with, for example, art that is more object–based? Time based art is different from object based art, because it’s more connected with being alive. It is in movement, and in change … Continued
Are you interested in performance art and other unusual experiences? New Performance Turku Festival is looking for volunteers! This year we need volunteers especially as artist’s assistants and also for info desks and as guides. For volunteers we offer something … Continued
The upcoming edition of the New Performance Turku Festival will present artists and experts, various collaborators and fresh insights into performance art and the society. Altoghether 18 artists, groups and activists have been invited to take part in the event … Continued
Maryan Abdulkarim: How we deconstruct the imbalance of power Workshop: Friday 21.9. between 14-17 Workshop requires registration in advance. Workshop location is shared to chosen participants. THE WORKSHOP IS FULLY BOOKED. Maryan Abdulkarim’s workshop starts the History Will Be Kind … Continued
RAPHAEL CHRISTIAN ETONGO: What’s Love? Performance Friday 21.9. at 20:00 TEHDAS Theatre, Manilla, Itäinen Rantakatu 64 What’s Love is a performance that deals with the relationships humans have between them today. Fear of the Other, Hatred, conflicts of interest, prejudices, … Continued
Silja Eriksson & Sami Juhani Rekola: The Shop Durational performance Saturday 22.9. at 14:00 – Sunday 23.9. at 14:00 Asemapuiston Lippakioski, Rautatientori The Shop is now physically open for 24 hours. Like always, you can get whatever you want. Come … Continued
