Tuuli Vahtola & Iida Hägglund: Here, there, somewhere

Thursday 7.9. at 19:00
Friday 8.9. at 18:00
Saturday 9.9. at 19:15

Venue: Jokistudio, Manilla, Itäinen Rantakatu 64b, 20810 Turku
Arrival and accessibility information at the bottom of the page

Duration: 1hr
Pre-booking is possible, but tickets will also be available at the venue, 15 minutes before the performance.  Pre-bookings here.

Here, there, somewhere is a performance that deals with attention and orientation by placing next to one another an audio play and a live performance. The audience members are invited to listen and watch simultaneously as the two tracks of the performance unfold, come together and drift apart; how they mesh and disturb each other. Here, there, somewhere wants to get confused with the binary idea of private and public, words and movement, visual and visceral. It creeps in the corners, through the graveyard, dreams and clouds.

The project is initiated by dance and performance artist Tuuli Vahtola and realised together with sound designer-composer Iida Hägglund.

listening, drifting, attention, private space, shared space, boundaries, vision, association, connect, disconnect

Tuuli Vahtola (she/her) is a dance and performance artist who lives in Helsinki. She works by herself and with others in different roles: performing, choreographing, in dramaturgical conversation. In her work Tuuli is intrigued by questions of intimacy and touch as well as the corporeality of language. Since 2018 Tuuli has been a member of Precarious Practices, a Helsinki based working group and a platform focusing on artistic exchange and formed by twelve freelance artists in the field of dance and choreography.

Tuuli graduated from DOCH/Stockholm University of the Arts in 2017 and holds a BA in Dance Performance. Next to artistic work, Tuuli is currently doing Master’s studies in gender studies at Tampere University.

Iida Hägglund (s.1991) is a sound designer, composer, musician, writer and performer. She has studied music and film sound design in Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and performance art sound design in Theatre Academy, Helsinki. Hägglund works as a freelancer and is interested in feminist practices and themes. In her work she’s constantly exploring what feminist sound design could be. Hägglund’s works have been heard in Blaue Frau and Swedish The Name Is O collectives’ performances, in Tero Saarinen Company, Theatre Academy, Tampere Theatre Festival, Hangö Teaterträff, Finnish National Theatre, Yle, Underwire and Raindance film festivals in London and Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Arrival and accessibility information:

Jokistudio is a performance space managed by Tehdas Teatter, located in Manila’s courtyard. Manilla’s courtyard (Itäinen Rantakatu 64 B) has a free disabled parking space.

More information about arrival and accessibility can be found from here: https://www.tehdasteatteri.fi/in-english/ 

Language accessibility and audience participation

The performance is based on listening (listening through headphones) and movement. The language of the performance is English.

More information:
Salla Karvonen, salla@newperformance.fi