STUDY ON THE UNCHARTED LIVE ART OF THE FINNISH BACKWATERS
for TEKIJÄ Theatre Touring Network -project and Baltic Circle Festival seminar ”TOURING IN SCANDINAVIA AND THE BALTICS – Bridging regional and international perspectives” 17.11.2011
BIG BANG
Moments In Time, Making Work In Transit.
During 2008/9 I undertook a series of travels and residencies which resulted in a new body of work around distance, measurement, time and my place in the world. Below is an introduction to some of these works and a few recollections, incidents and observations that came along the way.
Finding a film in the Finnish Archipelago
The Sacredness of Performative Technology
Bless all forms of intelligence. I'll start with being honest. That the search for God was to be abandoned there was no doubt about. But that this search would be missed and then pursued in a context where it lacked meaning, was not expected. How do you introduce a pragmatic spirituality in a secular humanity? For spirituality had to be grown in a laboratory environment like bacterial cultures and controlled so that the seed of fanaticism would not find its way into the suburbs. A virus for visionaries. Everything for the hobby rabbi.
Edge of Europe – Home for Shadows
Someone writes on a piece of cross-ruled paper. Divides it in two parts, puts one part in a hip pocket, and drops the other carelessly on the floor. I pick up the fallen one, read it, and make it the title of this writing.
Home for Shadows. I’ll start from that.
[ ] and Lies.
This is a lie.
This flow of words from left to right, top to bottom – this ordering of things. I didn’t discover these sentences, but built them deliberately. They do not represent my thoughts, but direct them. Language does not reflect experience, but acts on it.
Toshiki Okada's interview
Toshiki Okada is the playwright and director of chelfitsch, a young Japanese theater group that rose to near-unanimous national acclaim in the past six years. In 2007, they were invited to the Kunsten Festival des Arts, and since then have received invitations and praise from international presenters and audiences. Despite their wild popularity, the work of chelfitsch is subdued, thoughtful and spastic. Until recently, the text spoken by the young performers was colloquial almost beyond recognition, endlessly starting but going nowhere.
WICKED GAME
Institutet (SWE) & Nya Rampen (FIN): Conte D’amour DEMO#1
20.11.2009 Baltic Circle Lounge, Universum, Helsinki