Leena Kela: End of Days
PLACE: The Nook, Turku City Theatre, Itäinen Rantakatu 14
DATE & TIME: 2.9.2025 at Tue 19:15-20:00
DURATION: 45 min. Please arrive 15 minutes before the performance.
Advance registration required. Pre-registration for the performances will open in August.
LANGUAGE: English
End of Days is a performance by Leena Kela that explores our desire and capacity to subsist in this world through the themes of survivalism and artificial intelligence. In the performance, Kela interacts with various objects, materials, and ideas related to these questions, gradually building spatial and conceptual tensions. The work unfolds through a score method, or a set of instructions, where a series of letters serve as a call to action. The piece culminates with the arrival of the ultimate survivor — the tardigrade.
Leena Kela (she/her) has been working in the field of performance art for two decades. Most of her work is based on everyday observations and explores the interaction between corporeality and materiality. She has performed at performance art festivals, events and exhibitions on every continent except Antarctica. She is the artistic director of the New Performance Turku Biennale and the residency director of the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence. She graduated in Live Art and Performance Studies from the Theatre Academy (2010) and is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki.