Trip to Seili Island on Friday 12.8.2022 and event day in Turku on Saturday 3.9.2022.

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.

The year 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the New Performance Turku Festival. The theme of the anniversary year festival was 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.

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.

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!

Are you interested in writing about performance art and live art? New Performance Turku Festival’s writing group is making a comeback!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sound poetry on mobility by poet and performance artist Virpi Vairinen.

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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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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