Peeling an Onion is a collective and intimate space of dreaming, sharing and lamenting. Onions help us to cry, to release, to pray.
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Mark Požlep (SL/BE)
“Live Load” is performative research to question social, economic and environmental implications of containerization.
Suvi Tuominen (FI)
Future past in Linnaniemi is a performance which responds to the development of Linnaniemi area and to the development of the Museum of History and the Future that is to be opened in 2030. Suvi Tuominen has followed the process of the museum’s development and participated in related joint development workshops for researchers. The different pieces of the performance questions the posture of thinking where the past is considered to transform into a future.
May-Britt Öhman & Eva Charlotta Helsdotter (SE)
There are no magic wands. The current ongoing so called “green transition” is in reality environmentally destructive, fossil dependent and also aggressively colonial. We discuss the case of wind power, currently massively promoted by environmentalists, governments and large companies as part of the “green” transition.
Sindri Runudde (SE)
A sensory deep dive in a children’s show for young people and adults alike. In a stage room filled with hand-blown glass beads, sequins and fake fur, we play with the idea of being someone else or something else. Maybe a seal?
Tuuli Vahtola & Iida Hägglund (FI)
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.
Yasen Vasilev (BU)
“Impossible Actions” puts a group of performers through a series of tasks that aim to test and re-imagine the limits and functions of the body and deconstruct (un)conscious habits of movement.
Biennale artists and programme published!
The New Performance Turku Biennale presents works from altogether 20 international artists and artist groups.
OPEN CALL: Performers for the work Rewinding (call extended until 6.6.)
Open call for enthusiastic performers of various backgrounds, ages and origins.
NPT Biennale: Coming Together
New Performance Turku Biennale: Coming Together How do we reconnect? In the beginning of September, New Performance Turku Biennale brings together a wide spectrum of performance
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Whose rules – Workshop for children and adults on Sunday May 14th!
Bring your kids and join the workshop that explores our bodily and emotional relationship to the playgrounds! The workshop will take place on Sunday, May 14th 2023 in Turku, Adventure Park Seikkailupuisto.
ОPEN CALL: Artists for IMPOSSIBLE ACTIONS performance
We invite artists based in Turku to participate in IMPOSSIBLE ACTIONS, a production of a collective performance piece with local artists
OPEN CALL: Audience ambassadors!
New Performance Turku Biennale is looking for ten Audience Ambassadors to take part in the international performance art biennale and its activities.
Time for Live Art project launched
The project carries four artists across Europe with thematics of slow travel and encounters.
OPEN CALL: Emerging Curators Residency in Turku, Finland in September 2023
The Performing Arts Centre Finland (ESKUS) and New Performance Turku Biennale are looking for international curators for Emerging Curators Residency in Turku on September 3-10th, 2023.
ICE HOLE – The Live Art Journal vol. 12 is published on Nov 24th
ICE HOLE vol.12 is made in collaboration with the Reality Research Center and the New Performance Turku Biennale.
New Performance Turku Biennale 2023
The renowned New Performance Turku Festival has been developing means of production and audience in the field of performance art during its 10-year history. The New Performance Turku Biennale will continue the work and aspires to develop the goals of social, ecological and communal sustainability in the long term even further.
NPT x CAA: How do you know what you know? Exercises in Attentiveness II in Ruissalo, Kino Diana & Manilla
Event day in Turku (Ruissalo, Kino Diana & Manilla) Saturday 3.9.2022
FRESH START programme artists are selected
The artists will start developing their work in Autumn 2022, and the works will be performed in the New Performance Turku Biennale in September 2023.
NPT x CAA: How do you know what you know? Exercises in Attentiveness
Trip to Seili Island on Friday 12.8.2022 and event day in Turku on Saturday 3.9.2022.
OPEN CALL: FRESH START programme for emerging performance artists in Finland
New Performance Turku Biennale’s FRESH START project offers possibilities for artistic work and international connections for performance artists active in Finland. Application period 24.5.-12.6.2022.
New Performance Turku Festival 2021 committed 2.000 people and 20.000 nails
The year 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the New Performance Turku Festival. The theme of the anniversary year festival was SURVIVAL.
2021
The year 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the New Performance Turku Festival. The theme of the anniversary year festival was SURVIVAL and the works at the festival addressed topics such as surviving in extreme conditions and survivalism as a phenomenon, but also approached more subtle survival strategies and coping mechanisms.
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!
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.