A FEW WORDS by Annette Arlander

A few words… Welcome to this issue of Ice-Hole, a compilation of some of the remains of the kick-off seminar of the Academy of Finland funded research project How to do things with performance? The seminar was organized on 4th October 2016 in collaboration with the...
TEXT and VIDEO “Performative Writing” by Hanna Järvinen

TEXT and VIDEO “Performative Writing” by Hanna Järvinen

Performative Writing In her article “Writing Performance” (1998) Della Pollock defines performative writing as having six qualities. It is evocative, rendering the absent present. It is metonymic, meaning that it is self-consciously incomplete. It is subjective – not...
TEXT and VIDEO “What is ‘ESITYS'” by Pilvi Porkola

TEXT and VIDEO “What is ‘ESITYS'” by Pilvi Porkola

My presentation is in two parts: at first there is a text What is ‘ESITYS’? I presented in a seminar. The second part is a video Reading on Sandra Bermann’s “Performing Translation”. 1.WHAT IS ’ESITYS’? My research in the project How to...
VIDEO “Abridged Performance” by Tero Nauha

VIDEO “Abridged Performance” by Tero Nauha

Abridged Performance In 2015 I started a project with two analogue devices — a vinyl record turntable and Theremin — in a performance lecture. One of the first presentations took place at the Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE) conference held at the Orpheus...