The performance Rewinding proposes to turn shop windows in the city center of Turku into living dioramas, generating capsules inside them where time can be manipulated, and passersby may observe how people and bodies re-signify spaces.

DANGER DANGER is a performance about dealing with challenging emotions emerging from living with the ecological crisis. The performance takes the form of a guided tour at the Turku Art Museum in connection with the museum’s Handle with Care -exhibition.

gustaf broms works in the borderlands between performance, video and installation, engaged with the exploration of the nature of consciousness.

Dash enters a Finnish playground with a question. They ask, how does a playground affect and shape the body who uses it and make it into a citizen of a specific nation? Is there a relationship between a playground and a patriotic body?

The Carnival of the Animals devises performance responses to each of the 14 movements of the 1886 musical suite for children of the same title by French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns, engaging the evocative titles with endangered or extinct species in mind.

You see… is a one-to-one performance that was inspired by the artist’s discovery of privilege and the conversations that they went on to have about it.

Recover Laboratory’s artistic directors Sofi Häkkinen and Miradonna Sirkka invite you on a journey to a mysterious, underground place. They offer you a multi-art encounter and installation that builds up along with its participants.

Momentarily anchored in the Turku harbour, and waiting in the Baltic intertidal feels sore is a multisensorial lecture that figures a passenger ferry terminal as a site of intricate multivalent waiting, an embodied, situatedly and actively lived quotidian process.

Audience Body is a theatrical event of shared reading. No performer will step on stage. Instead a subtle being appears — the audience body.

‘The Streets of Turku: A Queer Perspective’ walking tour takes its participants to see the queer-historical sites in the city center of Turku with an expert guide. The tour takes a critical look into the opportunities and challenges public space offers for people belonging to marginalized groups.

Jamie MacDonald will host the opening ceremony of the New Performance Turku Biennale on Tuesday, September 5th.

Sajan Mani is a visual and performance artist born into a family of rubber tappers in Keralam, South India. His work centers the realities of marginalized people of India, the correspondence between animals and humans and ecological questions

Isabel and Ana will carry out a multi-day exhibition-installation of performance scores selected from those made over the last ten years of the project, which will grow over the course of the days, also thanks to the participation of the public.  

Turbulence is a sound installation/ live performance. It is an experimental sound art piece from the collection of the Topography soundscape of my queer body, where the artist explores different methods to present sound mixed with live art.

The origin of the performance I, Earth is a deep concern about the destruction of our planet’s ecosystems. It is more than just concern – it is irritation, rage and despair.

The work is a performance lecture which decomposes into fictioning of ecosexual utopias, following a pilgrimage to inseminate the islands of the Earth in search of expanded kinships and alternative forms of community building based on technological commonality and home-making in a beyond-human world.

Peeling an Onion is a collective and intimate space of dreaming, sharing and lamenting.  Onions help us to cry, to release, to pray.

“Live Load” is performative research to question social, economic and environmental implications of containerization.

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.

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.

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?

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.

“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.