Critical walking “A mental disease has swept the planet: banalisation”, wrote French theorist and poet Ivan Chtcheglov in 1953 in his urban manifesto “Formulaire pour un
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Anitta Kynsilehto: Global mobilities in the context of Covid-19
Growing consciousness over increasing carbon footprint and the devastating consequences of excessive air travel have rendered annual holidays overseas and frequent weekend getaways to locations within
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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.
2019
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.
2018
The festival’s POST POST POST theme comments the fractures and changes in our current world view. The artists were invited to address different post- and post-post-eras currently surrounding us. Is it possible to use performance art and embodied knowledge to explain and to experience the transitional shifts around us?
2017
The festival showcased 21 artists and artists groups around the world with thought-provoking, political works on themes such as history of homosexuality, migration and politics of education and the cityspace.The festival gathered thousands of people to experience performance art and live art in its all forms.
2016
The fifth annual New Performance Turku Festival, the international festival for performance and live art, succeed to fill the expectations of the audience and the organizers. 2,500 visitors enjoyed the performances, installations, seminars and discussions around Turku’s urban city space, performance spaces and galleries during the five festival days.
2015
New Performance Turku Festival 2015 brought up socially relevant questions and debates on art, science and society. The festival programe also included collaborations and joint works by performance artists and researches in the Floating Platforms project.
2014
The festival presented top international performance artists and represented diversity in performance and live art, giving new perspectives on life, art and the city environment. The performances were seen and experienced in and around Turku region, in galleries, theatres and the public space.
2013
The second festival programme highlighted central names in international performance art as well as interesting local artists.
2012
New Performance Turku is an international festival for performance and Live Art, and it was organised for the first time at various venues around Turku in 2012. The festival presented a program of both international and national artists from the field of new performance art.