Hanna Ijäs: The Body Harvest
PLACE: Art House Turku, Nunnankatu 4, 2 floor, Tehdas.
DATE & TIME: Fresh Start Club Night on Fri 5.9. at 20:00–00:30
DURATION: 45 min, Performance is part of the Fresh Start Club Night program, which also features performances by Anna Maskava and Anabela Veloso. No pre-booking needed.
LANGUAGE: English
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The Body Harvest is an exercise of attention.
The performance dips into the abstraction of physicality, bodies and tangible worlds in the face of digitalisation. It depicts a wavy motion of coming to the surface, plugging in and fading out. Exploring a divided attention between reality and imagined through live poetry, rhythm and story-telling. The performed text searches for a way to return to the neglected body which exists in the crossroads of the split attention. The discomfort of this exercise is magnified through soothing motions of touch.
Framed with a sound that pulsates, distracting the performer. The sound is reminiscent of an external call, a *haptic element that weaves the body and sound together. While attentions divide, will you connect? The Body Harvest is a moment of delirium, friendship and self-destruction through toxic fibres.
(*Haptic refers to a broad range of sensations that simulate the sense of touch, acting as a form of touch communication between an inanimate object and a human.)
The work has been developed as part of the FRESH START Nordic / Baltic programme in collaboration with Live Art Denmark (Copenhagen) and the Starptelpa Festival (Riga). The programme is funded by the Nordic Culture Point.
Hanna Ijäs (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and performer based in Helsinki. In times where technology molds and forms interactions, Ijäs aims to grasp this through performance, ways of communication and methods of understanding. Writing and performing are the tools to reveal, discover and frame the value systems, power structures and conditions of humans. At the very core Ijäs re/de/constructs identity and the question of what it is to be a human within expanding and contracting borders and boundaries in a vast fluid changing world. The core of her research is the mapping of the modern human at large in digital and physical realities.