Dear friend,

How are you? We hope you are well despite these peculiar and difficult times.

The New Performance Turku Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year on the weekend 3.-5.9.2021! To honour the past 10 years, 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!

Each of the NPT & Friends discussions will focus on a specific aspect of survival from the perspectives of practicing artists, the field of performance and Live Art and how we imagine their futures. What do we need to survive? How can we help each other to strengthen the field and its interconnections?

And then a bit more about the festival’s and discussions’ thematic SURVIVAL, which can be understood as:

Survival in fundamental shifts and changes: ecological crisis, pandemic, transformation in the society’s regime, rise of the political extremist movements, turning points of the current art field, global economic crisis

Survival as an individual: personal resources, recovery, coping, regeneration, giving up, adaptation

Methods of survival: battle/struggle, rooting in one’s position, evacuation, retreating, strengthening personal resources (physical and mental practices), refusal (un-doing, saving up energy, resting), self-sufficiency as a way of life, tenderness, hope, care

We are looking forward to having you at the discussions!
The language of the discussions is English.
You can attend all of the discussions via this link (no enrollment necessary):
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89576162267?pwd=ZktPZDQ3MUhTTWl2QmtvUjVPRnEvdz09

In the meantime, check also our new website and published programme for this year: https://www.newperformance.fi/en/etusivu-english/

Warm greetings,

NPT & Friends