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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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.
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!
EXTENDED: New Performance Turku Festival 3.-5.9.2021 is looking for volunteers!
A weekend with interesting and surprising art and experiences? Join the volunteer team!
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.
Serge Olivier Fokoua: Africa has been failed by Westernisation
Westernistion is becoming Africa’s reality. Increasingly, our elites tell us that the west’s way is “modern” and “civilised”, echoing the early colonialists who dismissed our civilisations as “barbaric”, “archaic”, and “uncivilised” to install theirs.