Mika Elo
Other Spaces is a Live Art collective whose work is based on collective corporeal exercises
that allow visiting nonhuman forms of experience and being.
GOING ON NOW
INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF ECO-EMBODIED ARTS VISITS HELSINKI
Raffaele Rufo, founding member of the International Forum of Eco-Embodied Arts [IFEEA] helds a workshop and a networking meeting at Eskus in 28.-29.10.
The events are organised by Eskus in collaboration with the Other Spaces group. The event is part of the 20th anniversary programme of the Other Spaces Group.
Photo: Mika Elo
OTHER SPACES GOES TO KAJAANI
Other Spaces -collective performs a series of three of its classic performances in cooperation with the Kajaani City Theatre in the fall of 2024 and spring of 2025.
The performances which will be seen in Kajaani are Reindeer Safari (2010), Wolf Safari (2014) and Great Barrier Reef (2018).
The cooperation is funded by Uudet klassikot -fund.
Photo: Johanna Huiskonen
OTHER SPACES 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION IN 11.9.-20.10.
Living utopia -exhibition at Theatre Museum presents the 20-year activities of the Other Spaces collective. In the exhibition, visitors can take a peek into the history of the Other Spaces collective and get to know the collective’s artistic practice in detail.
Photo: Mika Elo
ANIARA IS EXHIBITED AT THE THEATER MUSEUM’S IT’S SHOW TIME -EXHIBITION
A new basic exhibition called It’s Showtime has opened in the Theater Museum. The exhibition opens the performance process from the idea through the preparation and rehearsal phase to the moment of performance and beyond.
The props, costumes and synopsis of the work Aniara, which premiered in 2006, are on display in the exhibition. Aniara was based on Harry Martinson’s (1904-1978) sci-fi poetry epic. The premiere was seen at /teatteri.nyt-festival in the Kiasma Theater.
Photo: Petri Summanen
PAST EVENTS
ENLIGHTENMENT MACHINE WAS PREMIERED ON 4.10.
Enlightenment Machine was premiered at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre on saturday 4.10. and second performance on 5.10.
Enlightenment Machine calls for the update of the modes of spiritual ascesis without banalizing them. At the same time, it challenges us to ponder our relation to the contemporary enlightenment industry, which works in conformity with the self-centered performance economy.
Kuva: Paula Tella
MARKET-WORKSHOP AT ÄRJÄ ART FESTIVAL
Our new workshop Market offered pressureless shopping experience in beautiful nature landscape at Ärjä island in Kajaani on 27.-29.7.
Read more from festival’s websites
Photo: Mikko Ensio Lehtonen
TRIPIT! OTHER SPACES EXERCISE FESTIVAL WAS HELD ON 15.6.
The legendary TRIPIT!-festival was organized in Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden with a theme “rambling”.
The workshop was based on the group’s old and new plant-themed exercises, which this time are experienced together outdoors in the Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden.
Photo: Maarit Myllynen and Laura Jantunen
BIRTHSAUNA OPENED THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR ON 25.5.
Other Spaces’s 20th anniversary year started on Saturday 25.5. with exercise demonstration BIRTHSAUNA in the Helsinki Student Theatre (Ylioppilasteatteri).
The event returned to the moment of the group’s birth: it consisted of a series of exercises that the group performed in its very first demonstration in the same studio on April 27th, 2004. Many of the exercises presented at that time, such as “Message from Outer Space”, “Human Mountain, “Snails”, “Animal Track” or “Yoga Park”, are still part of the group’s regular repertoire. In addition to the exercises, Birthsauna includes an overview of the group’s history, video recording of the original sessions, and the opportunity to ask questions to the group members.
Photo: Miikka Roine
ENDING OF THE 3-YEAR LASTING RHIZOME PROJECT WAS CELEBRATED WITH TEHTAANKATU SCHOOL
The ending of the 3-year lasting Rhizome project was celebrated together with Tehtaankatu school on 15.12.2023. The school received a Battery -exercise instructions and a short documentary film which was made about the project. The exercise was developed together by the pupils and Other Spaces -artists. The exercise was executed together with the whole school with 400 participants.
The project is done in collaboration with HAM Helsinki Art Museum and the Tehtaankatu elementary school.
Read more about the Rhizome-project.
Photo: Iisakki Kennilä
TRIPIT! – THE OTHER SPACES EXERCISE FESTIVAL THEME WAS ENLIGHTENMENT
The legendary TRIPIT!-festival was organized on 2.12. with a theme ENLIGHTENMENT. The workshop based on work-in-progress performance Enlightenment machine – 12 exercises which was performed last May.
Read more on TRIPIT!
Picture: Paula Tella
OTHER SPACES EXERCISE-WORKSHOP AT CULTURAL EDUCATION FORUM
On the experiences of worms and fungal mycelium -workshop was part of Annantalo’s Cultural Education Forum on 30.10.
Picture: Mikko Tuononen / Humus Symposium 2022
MARKET-EXERCISE AT ESITYSTELTTA ON 26.8. (PERFORMANCE TENT)
Everyone goes to the store, everyone buys, consumes, and encounters consumption in various
environments. Market is a hyper mundane dive into the experiences of consumption on a
micro-level.
The presentation consists of simple collaborative physical exercises and the Market space that we create based on these exercises. In this way, Market provides a visitation in shopping, without the actual commercial environment, thus inviting you to experience everyday activities in a new way.
Read more from Esitysteltta Facebook-event.
Picture: Mikko Ensio Lehtonen
STITCHING TRACKS INSTALLATION AT MI_TÄ BIENNALE IN JOENSUU ART MUSEUM
Stitching Tracks is a project by the Disconnected Spaces research group, that studies the decommissioned railway as a disconnected space. What happens to a train track after it is decommissioned?
The installation was presented at the M_itä? Biennale in the Joensuu Art Museum from 13 May to 17 September 2023 as a part of the Stitching Tracks project.
Picture: Jaakko Ruuska