New Performance Turku Festival: FUTURES
18.-20.10.2019

The theme of the New Performance Turku Festival 2019 was FUTURES. What kinds of new futures can we envision, dream and imagine as our worldview is currently in a dramatic process of evolving and changing? The festival aimed in looking at multiple futures from the point of view of performance art – and what kind of means and visions we have to understand and create our possible futures.

Collaborators:
Läntinen tanssin aluekeskus, TEHDAS Teatteri, Wäinö Aaltosen museo, Aurinkobaletti, Pro Manillasäätiö, STRETCH 2019 -event, PUBLICS, KULTVA network (University of Turku)

The festival was supported by:
Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Arts Promotion Centre Finland), Turun kaupunki, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (Varsinais-Suomen rahasto), TelepART (Finnland-Institut in Deutschland), Pro Manilla Foundation

Artists and works:

Ali Al-Fatlawi & Wathiq Al-Ameri (CH/IQ): Untitled
Antti Tolvi & Tero Niskanen (FI): Honk
Fern Orchestra (FI): Vox Herbārium
Henna Laininen (FI): My Climate Emotions
Leena Kela (FI): Space Here We Come
Leyya Mona Tawil (USA/PL): Lime Rickey International’s Future Faith / Turku Future Folk Dance
Nathalie Mba Bikoro (GE): Black A(n)thena
Niko Hallikainen (FI): Television
Panu Pihkala (FI): Earth Emotions
Salla Talvikki Nieminen (FI): Free Verse Work
Stirnimann-Stojanovic (CH): – The Space –
Tiia Kasurinen (FI): Life of Harmony – Extended
Tytti Arola (FI): The Silakka Triptych
Xie Rong (CN/UK): Sea

+ STRETCH Keynote: What is the point of it all? Working internationally in the age of ecological crisis
+ Qi Gong & meditation by Antti Tolvi