EDITORIAL Reality Research Center 20 years

Nov 9, 2021 | 0 comments

Text by Louna-Tuuli Luukka ja Jussi Salminen   Reality Research Center, founded in 2001, is a collective of artists engaged in performative adventures. Our shared aspiration is to observe, question, and renew reality by creating performances.    This issue...
Art as Citizenship as Art

Art as Citizenship as Art

Nov 9, 2021 | 0 comments

Text by Maria Säkö & Klaus Maunuksela, Edit by Louna-Tuuli Luukka Ice Hole invited the critic Maria Säkö and the dramaturg Klaus Maunuksela to write dialogically online about how they see the past, present, and future of Reality Research Center. They were given a...
Working On Thin Air

Working On Thin Air

Nov 9, 2021 | 0 comments

In conversation with Janne Saarakkala text by Pilvi Porkola In 2007 Pilvi Porkola and Janne Saarakkala led a one-year-long research project about politics and art at Reality Research Center. The project included workshops, public interventions, and the first issue of...
On Our Knees

On Our Knees

Nov 9, 2021 | 0 comments

Text by Tuomas Laitinen   The event Time: At 6:10pm, between August 12th – 28th 2021.  Place: The crossing of Aleksanterinkatu and Fabianinkatu, in the heart of Helsinki.      We, the artists of Reality Research Center, go on our knees and cross...
Empathize or Die

Empathize or Die

Nov 9, 2021 | 0 comments

Text by Tuire Tuomisto     Actor Tuire Tuomisto and Director Tuire Tuomisto are having a conversation about the performance The Other (Reality Research Center, 2012), in which they both were present. (Sound of drops dripping) ACTOR TUIRE TUOMISTO (ATT) I...

EDITORIAL Isolation

Aug 5, 2020 | 0 comments

ICE HOLE issue 10: Isolation The spring of 2020 was very unusual. In a short time, many things changed. Due to Covid-19 everyday life was not possible as we used to know it, there were new restrictions and safety precautions concerning meeting people and travelling....

EDITORIAL One Minute

Oct 11, 2019 | 0 comments

Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή.   Vīta brevis, ars longa, occāsiō praeceps, experīmentum perīculōsum, iūdicium difficile.   Life is short, and art long, opportunity fleeting, experimentations...