An art installation and live performances at Mänttä Art Festival in 2023. Our earlier performance figures the Birchwomen take on new roles when they dress as ambiguous creatures inspired by the urban Finnish forest, Finnish folklore and our subconsious. Weird things happen as they occupie the Birch House.

Photo Jan Ahlstedt.

Fredrika en voyage is a continuation of the earlier project Fredrika mise en lien. We wanted to offer the 19th century author Fredrika Runeberg a chance to do what she never could do during her life time, to travel abroad. In this project Fredrika Runeberg travels to Paris and meets her colleague George Sand who takes her around to see the sights of Paris.

Photo Heli Sorjonen.

59 Rivoli is an former artist squat which today houses artist studios and a gallery. The facade was done by artist group Afterparty Goes Forest, which Linda and Aura are members of. Other members are Anders Bergman, Petri Hytönen, Marika Kaarna, Siru Kosonen, Seppo Renvall and Maija Saksman.

Fredrika mise en lien is an art project about the 19th century author Fredrika Runeberg. The aim in the project was to reach towards Fredrika Runeberg and to try and create a dialog with her. In order to come closer to her we dressed in 19th century dresses and read her novels and short stories. The project included an installation and two performances in J. L. Runebergs Home Museum in Porvoo during summer 2021.

Photo Jan Ahlstedt.

Edge is a 4 day long performance and art installation. It is a journey to the unknown. An expedition to the borders of our imagination, to the borders of our consciousness. During the journey we encounter difficulties, darkness and freedom to be. Edge is also a study of our origin, time, routines and irregularities.

The audience was free to look at the installation and the ongoing performance when visiting the gallery.

Photo Jan Ahlstedt.

Terra Nuova is a performance and installation in three parts. The first part is called Terra Bianca and in it the visitors meet a reception desk and can take part in an odd ritual. In the second part, Terra Nera, spectators are faced with darkness and floating bodyparts in the void. In the last part, Terra Mystica, the audience can lie down under the protection of the mantle of Virgin Mary.

Five Phases is a one year long project including research and five performances. In the project we set out to find our relation to spirituality. We interviewed people with different spiritual backgrounds and beliefs, including shamans, intuitive seers and a zen buddist priest. We asked them and ourselves questions concerning five themes; Unity, Change, Sexuality, Rituals and Values. From the answers and from some exercises that we did we composed five performances with the same themes.

Photo Tiina Palmu.

Angakoq is a performance event that has been arranged three times, in 2014, 2015 and 2017. It has been arranged in collaboration with SIC space and us as curators. The basis of Angakoq is to invite performers of all kind, including artists working in other fields and unexperienced performers, and to ask them to work in pairs or in groups. The aim has been to come together as a community and to do performance with an experimental and easy-going attitude.

Photo SIC space.

Earnshaw- Granfors- Hakuri is a project done in collaboration with the fictive character of Catherine Earnshaw from the novel Wuthering Heights. We read the novel and included Catherine and her experiences in everything that we did. We made drawings together, took photograps together, built installations together and did a performance together. The result of the project was presented in Titanik gallery.