Collaboration is the key word for New Performance Turku Festival 2015

New Performance Turku Festival is continuing to expand through new collaborations. This year’s biggest project is Floating Platforms made in collaboration with the Aboagora Symposium. Performances resulting from a working process between pairs of artists and scientists will be presented both as a part of New Performance Turku Festival and as a part of Aboagora Symposium. Read more about the project that creates a dialogue performance artists and researchers here.

New Performance Turku will also our collaboration with local universities. This year we are working with the Live Art and Performance Studies NMA programme at the Helsinki Theatre Academy, arts-oriented upper secondary school Turun klassillinen lukio and the Girls’s House in Turku. Also this year the festival venues include some of the most prominent theaters, galleries, museums and contemporary art spaces in the area: the festival continues its collaboration with its key partner venues – Titanik Gallery, TEHDAS Theatre, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova and Kutomo.

The festival programme will be officially released on 26th of August, but we are happy to already announce a few of the artists: Antti Laitinen who attracted international attention at the Venice Biennale last year will be working on a public art work throughout the festival. Some of the artists participating in Floating Platforms will also be performing at the festival. One of Latin America’s leading performance artists, Alejandra Herrera Silva and British Joshua Sofaer who presented his performative installation at WAM in 2013 are only few of the festival’s notable international artists.

The theme of collaboration also includes the festival audience. New Performance Turku Festival invites the audience to participate in creating and developing ways in which to talk about performance art in Finland. How can we approach performance art? Why is performance art so relevant right now? New Performance Turku Festival provides time and space for conversations and writing about performance art.

Come to the festival to experience and to share your experiences!