{"id":6435,"date":"2023-03-22T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toisissatiloissa.net\/?page_id=6435"},"modified":"2025-02-04T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:48:30","slug":"valaistumiskone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toisissatiloissa.net\/en\/valaistumiskone\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlightenment machine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ENLIGHTENMENT MACHINE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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ENLIGHTENMENT MACHINE<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Other Spaces Live Art group has become renowned for its performative enactments, where it embodies more-than-human phenomena and states. This time, the transformative exercises the group has developed study the most heightened form of human experience, the enlightenment.

Traditionally, that state of spiritual perfection has been described by words like awakening, happiness, freedom, joy, freedom, serenity, compassion, equality, emptiness, and wholeness, and it has been searched for within different traditions of meditation. All meditation is based on certain body techniques, which often are strictly codified and hard to learn and practice. At the same time, everyone has every now and then insightful moment, which, like enlightenment, may have a deep impact on a person\u00b4s life. Those \u201dlittle enlightenments\u201d may occur for instance in nature, in art, while making love, giving birth, being drunk, or in other exceptional or extreme states.

Enlightenment Machine focuses on those momentary experiences, trying to find simple technical means for producing them alone or together, and over again. Could the spiritual quest become a matter of a new kind of imagination, experimentation, play and common invention? How to make it accessible and practicable for all?

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ORDER A PERFORMANCE<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Paula Tella<\/p>

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Photo Paula Tella<\/p>

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THE WORKING GROUP<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Artistic planning and execution:
Esa Kirkkopelto
Ilmari Kortelainen 
Minja Mertanen
Paula Tella<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experts consulted:
Gabriele Goria
Anna-Kaisa Hirvanen
Johanna Korhonen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production:
Paula Tella, Hanna Romo and Esa Kirkkopelto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you!
Pekka Airaksinen, Heli M\u00e4kinen, Elsa Tella, Karen Terzano,
Tavallinen mieli retreat centre ja Zodiak – Centre for New Dance. Simo Kellokumpu – Thank you for exercise-inspiration!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Enlightenment machine was supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Samuel Huber Art Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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PAST EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premiere on 4.10. and 5.10.2024<\/strong>
MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enlightenment machine – 12 exercises -work in progress <\/strong>
demonstrations on 5. and 6.5.2023 and a public workshop on sunday 7.5.2023 at Merimelojien maja (\u201cthe Clubhouse of the kayakers\u201d, Helsinki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enlightenment – Tripit! – public work shop<\/strong> as part of TRIPIT! Other Spaces Exercise Festival on 2.12.2023. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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