You have seen performing art pieces that deal with sexuality. I’m pretty sure you have been turned on in a performance by some performer or a scene. But have you ever participated in a performance designed to evoke sexual pleasure? If you have, and you got...
text: Janne Saarakkala Portrait of Julius Elo: video by Nora Rinne, roping by Amy May Sleeping Beauty trailer: Alisa Javits After participating in the Xplore07 festival in Berlin and spending the whole year 2008 investigating ”the body of the...
Text: Louna-Tuuli Luukka Photo: Slutartists in Pie Girl, 2018 by Elviira Kujala A Cake, Some Sluts in Slut Spaces and misunderstanding penetration as masturbation. 30 September 2018 I went to the afterparty of the gala celebrating the 75th...
Text: Nora Rinne Are you aiming for sexual arousal? If yes, you’re wasting your time reading this journal: this is about art. What is sex doing in art? When does an artwork cease to be art and become porn or the other way around – and must one of them always...
text: Tuomas Laitinen Juxtaposing Dionysus in 69 with experiences in Reality Research Center’s Sleeping Beauty and Wonderlust Festival. June 1968 Dionysus in 69, Performance Garage, NYC Dionysus in 69, an avant-garde theatre performance by The...
text: Louna-Tuuli Luukka photo of Hanna-Kaisa Tiainen: Kaisa Soininen photo of Titta Halinen: Titta Halinen Why does sexuality in participatory performance make us cringe? Two Finnish artists have their say about it in Louna-Tuuli Luukka’s interview....
This is the Christmas Special! Christmas is about gifts, lights, Christmas gnomes, songs, angels, Santa Clauses and food. It is about candles, decorations, trees and cards. Moreover, Christmas is glittering and it’s red; it’s about giving and consuming, quieting down...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to perform landscape by repetition? One way of doing things with performance is through repetition, although that is perhaps not the first thing one would associate with traditional performance art. In my presentation at the seminar, titled “How to perform...
