Gabriela Ariana Aldana & Lotta Petronella: Nature Reset

PLACE: 1st exercise in Ruissalo (exact location to be announced later) 
2nd exercise at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Kalastajankatu 1 B

DATE & TIME: 
1st exercise Sat 30.8. at 14
2nd exercise Sat 30.8. at 19 

DURATION: 
1st exercise 1,5 hours 
2nd exercise 1,5 hours
Advance registration required. Registration for the performances will open in August.

LANGUAGE: English

1st exercise: Nature Reset, open practice

The practice offers a space where we will co-create the environment in which the practice in the forest unfolds. It provides a moment to explore, from a state of rest, different ways to weave connection through voice, movement, listening, and touch.

We humans are nature, and the body recognizes itself in that presence, which will support our practice. Sharing an embodied experience of nature together builds community, not just on an ideological level but grounded—incarnated—in the experience of the cells.

The practice is open to anyone curious and open to participation. This practice will be guided by artist Gabriela Aldana.

2nd exercise: Oneiric Space 

This practice-performance invites participants to deepen their awareness of the cells and surrender to the body’s inner resources for connection and collective regeneration.
We will begin by welcoming everyone, sharing herbal tea, and briefly introducing some aspects of the practice. Then, we will gently guide participants toward rest, yielding through the layers of water and air in the collective body as part of nature.

This is an invitation to surrender to experiential knowledge, allowing it to surface and be shared. The practice will be supported by a soundscape (using loopers, microphones, voice, etc.) that will hold us on a journey into deeper states of rest and then return us to an “awake mode” within the dream field. Oneiric Space is a joint work between artists Gabriela Aldana and Lotta Petronella.

Gabriela Ariana Aldana (she/her) is a Chilean performance artist, choreographer, poem-writer, singer and a ritual bearer. Her work is based in nature, human body as nature and soul awareness. Her practice is also based on over 30 years of somatic movement studies from where she shares her own Ecosomatic movement and voice practice. Her performances create a space for sensing a collective experience of community, caring for, strength and shared inner resources. Her work honours experiential knowledge, no need to understand, probe or explain, the weave is strong through the shared experience.

Lotta Petronella (she/her) is a filmmaker, artist, and curator based on an island in Finland. She is the co-founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago and has been working with and on islands for nearly two decades. Since her internationally acclaimed film Själö – Island of Souls (2020), she has been leading a multidisciplinary collaborative research project, Själö Poeisis, on the island of Seili. In addition to her filmmaking and artistic practice, Petronella is a dedicated maker of herbal and flower essences and a tarot scholar. She also writes poetry, creates soundscapes, and hosts a podcast called Little Screams.