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
OTHER SPACES PERFORMANCES IN KAJAANI IN SPRING 2025
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
TRIPIT! -OTHER SPACES EXERCISE FESTIVAL:
FOREST-TRIPIT! -WORKSHOP
Sunday 25.5. at 12-16 in Meri-Rastila forest in Helsinki, close to Rastila metro station
The legendary TRIPIT! -Festival is heading to the FOREST. Festival is held as a two part workshop and includes both new and old Other Spaces exercises connected to the forest environment.
Register by 21.5.
The workshop is in Finnish but translation can be arranged if needed!
Photo: Heli Keto
OTHER SPACES 20TH ANNIVERSARY T-SHIRTS
20th Anniversary t-shirts “ELÄVÄ UTOPIA” (living utopia) designed by visual and performance artist Paula Tella are on sale at Performing Arts Center’s lobby. Selfservice only! The shirts are responsibly and ecologically produced.
T-shirts are also available in Cable Factory’s Factory Shop.
Photo: Hanna Romo
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
A NEW MARKET WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES VISITED FAROE ISLANDS
The Market workshop visited Frítt Flog -festival in Faroe Islands in March 2025. Originally intended for adults, the workshop was implemented for children and families. All together 10 workshops were executed in English and Faroe language in cooperation with local artist on 28.-30.3.
Photo: Marja Kettunen
OTHER SPACES 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION IN 11.9.-20.10.
Living utopia -exhibition at Theatre Museum presented the 20-year activities of the Other Spaces collective. In the exhibition, visitors took a peek into the history of the Other Spaces collective and got to know the collective’s artistic practice in detail.
Photo: Mika Elo
INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF ECO-EMBODIED ARTS VISITS HELSINKI
Raffaele Rufo, founding member of the International Forum of Eco-Embodied Arts [IFEEA] held a workshop and a networking meeting at Eskus in 28.-29.10.
The events were organised by Eskus in collaboration with the Other Spaces group. The event was part of the 20th anniversary programme of the Other Spaces Group.
Photo: Mika Elo
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