The year 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the New Performance Turku Festival. The theme of the anniversary year festival was SURVIVAL.
Year2021
Tomasz Szrama: Survival
All in all I have not lost hope. My aim is to find a way to communicate, interact.
I want to realise all of my challenging ideas and complete each of my difficult projects. I believe that with my artistic output, as well as the help of my friends, I will survive any system or further natural disasters.
NPT & Friends: Maija Hirvanen & Leena Kela
New Performance Turku Festival 10th anniversary week’s NPT & Friends discussions are coming to an end. The final part of the dialogue series is a discussion between festival’s artist Maija Hirvanen and festival’s artistic director Leena Kela.
NPT & Friends – Online discussion series 30.8.-1.9.
Dear friend, How are you? We hope you are well despite these peculiar and difficult times. We are inviting artists and visiting curators throughout the festival’s history to an online discussions series called NPT & Friends with performance artists, the festival team and audience in order to reflect this year’s festival theme – SURVIVAL. You are warmly welcome to take part in these discussions among friends!
OPEN CALL: Festival’s writing group
Are you interested in writing about performance art and live art? New Performance Turku Festival’s writing group is making a comeback!
EXTENDED: New Performance Turku Festival 3.-5.9.2021 is looking for volunteers!
A weekend with interesting and surprising art and experiences? Join the volunteer team!
New Performance Turku Festival 2021: SURVIVAL
The year 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the New Performance Turku Festival! The anniversary year theme is SURVIVAL. Festival artists will address different themes on survival and the acts and methods of surviving and coping.
New Performance Turku Festival 2020 looked into questions around mobilities and movement
The festival’s invited performance works around the theme MOBILITIES approached, re-thought and unlearned questions on international mobility. The festival also moved its audiences throughout different routes in various, site-specific spaces and places.
NOTIONS ON MOBILITIES
We have invited three writers to offer different points of views on the theme of mobilities: sociology and walking, global politics and mobility and contemporary poetry.
Serge Olivier Fokoua: Africa has been failed by Westernisation
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.
Maria Kananen (FI)
Maria Kananen is an Espoo based freelance dance artist and a member of the artist group FREEcollective. Maria’s goal is to create and bring dance art to a variety of settings and to promote holistic well-being through creative movement and dance among people of all ages.
Antti Laitinen (FI)
Antti Laitinen (b. 1975) is a Finnish artist with a background in visual arts whose works often combine installation and performance art. His performance installation Armour was part of New Performance Turku Festival 2015.
Pilvi Porkola (FI)
Pilvi Porkola is a performance artist, writer and researcher. Currently she is working as Senior Researcher in Academy of Finland project Political Imagination and Alternative Futures.
Tuija Lappalainen (FI)
Tuija Lappalainen is a freelance dance artist who works as a dancer, actress and choreographer. She has worked as a performer and choreographer in several productions in the field of dance and theater, and has done her own works as a choreographer in Finland and Germany.
Katriina Kettunen (FI) & Olga Spyropoulou (GR/FI)
Their practice is a constant negotiation between their different cultural backgrounds, personalities, and competence in languages.
Diana Soria Hernández (MX/FI)
Diana Soria Hernández (México 1983) is a visual artist focused on counteracting hegemonic structures through the physical and corporeal practice of her human scale, mainly with performance art, live installations and drawing.
Tomasz Szrama (PL/FI)
Szrama shifts between multiple disciplines, including photography, video and other time-based works.
Antti Tolvi (FI)
Antti Tolvi: Wave touching Saturday 4.9. 12:50-17:20 Only one person at a time (12 openings). Sunday 5.9. 10:50-13:00 Only one person at a time (6 openings).
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Jani Petteri Virta (FI)
Jani Petteri Virta (b. 1977) is a visual artist from Eastern Finland, living and working in Turku. He has made over sixty original performances, and one might call him a legend of contemporary art already.
Timo Viialainen (FI)
Timo Viialainen works in the fields of visual art, performance art and sound art. Though most part of his work has been live performances his contemporary work usually takes its shape in conceptual sculptures that often have some activating element in relation to the viewer.
2020
New Performance Turku Festival 2020 looked into questions around mobilities and movement in a historically exceptional period of time. The festival’s invited performance works around the theme MOBILITIES approached, re-thought and unlearned questions on international mobility.