#PQ2015 | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

actsofcare · 5 years

Text

Fluid Stages (FIN) at PQ 2019: Acts of Care

Acts of Care is presented as a part of the Finnish National FLUID STAGES exhibition curated by Art Collective KOKIMO at The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ 2019).

In the performance installation a big plastic bubble tent landing on public places. It invites the audience and the people passing by to enter and receive care. Acts of care provides hospice to the mankind in a moment of crisis an inevitable change. The bubble is a tent, an intimate space, a fantastic chappel, a place to rest. The audience steps in and may stay as long as they wish. In the bubble performers help the visitors to encounter themselves as part of the life circulation and to yield into being a part of our shared planet with different kind of acts of care. For us “care” means also trying to study and rehearse what happens when you try to make post-fossil art. The performance is aproduction of Theater Circus Maximus, a Helsinki-based theatre association focusing on experimental forms of performance. Supported also by Finnish Cultural Foundation and Kone foundation. https://www.pq.cz/ https://kokimo.fi/fluid-stages-at-pq19/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/457652468316001/

WHEN? Performance installation is open 4-5 hours per day on 5 days during 6/6 - 14/6 .

Acts of Care is a creature that needs certain heat, rain & wind conditions to perform. Our performance dates & times vary according to the weather conditions in our location. A preliminary schedule for performance times is as follows. Dates & times are confirmed at midday of each performance day according to the weather forecast.

WHO? Working group: Milla Martikainen, Petra Vehviläinen, Kati Raatikainen, Sofia Simola, Eero Erkamo and different kind of creatures, phenomenons and processes. Milla Martikainen works widely in the fields of performing arts as a performance artist, visual designer and scenographer. Her work is currently emerging from the landscape of the experienced crisis, trying to find artistic strategies to understand and take part in the process of creating realities inside and in-between different kind of structures. She works in collective process with different kind of human and non human companion creatures. Her recent works include visual design for Tainaron in Finnish National Theatre, performance installation “Global Flood” in ANTI-festival in Kuopio & collective 12-hour-performance “NIGHTSCHOOL” on Stage-festival Helsinki. Kati Raatikainen is a Helsinki based performance artist and choreographer. In the center of her work is a bodily investigation of how to choreograph empathy and the relationships between human and non-human beings in performative situations. She works normally in collectives and in long processes. Her work has been presented for example in Zodiak center for new dance in Helsinki and at Urb - festival in Kiasma contemporary art museum. Petra Vehviläinen is artist from Helsinki. Her works situates in the fields of performance, music and visual arts. Her works are often site-orientated and located into landscapes and public spaces and deal with autobiographical material as non-identity related questions, but a starting point for collective work and encounter as well as understanding one’s own position. Her works has been presented for example site spesific in several public spaces in Helsinki, Kiasma-theatre, galleries and music festivals in Finland and abroad. Sofia Simola works as a dance and performance artist and studies ecology and utilisation of forests in University of Helsinki. Her latest works has been presented in Zodiak center for new dance in Helsinki and in Urb-festival in Kiasma contemporary art museum. Her latest work is called a Operation Paulaharju, a 4-year-long collaboration with theatre maker and author Juha Hurme. Eero Erkamo is light designer whose main works are presented widely in Finland and abroad. His light design and space installations have been presented for example in Lux Helsinki light festivals, Turku City Theatre and site-spesfic in several swimming halls in Finland. He made light design for installation called The Other Side which won the golden medal in students category in PQ2015. Theatre Circus Maximus is a Helsinki - based theatre association gathering together professional artists from the field of dance, theatre, performance, music and visual arts. It specializes on experimental forms of performance, combining different art forms and working in site- and situation-spesific environments.

www.circusmaximus.fi