10.11.2023

Performance club: Haunted Objects

Performance club Haunted Objects in Hugo event space on Friday 10th of November from 7pm to 9.30pm. You are warmly welcomed!

The club is free of charge. During the evening we will see five brilliant performances from artists Leena Kela, Yun-Chen Chang and Parsa Kamehkhosh. We will also have Aino Oikarinen and Anni-Maaria Leppänen from the Kankaanpää School of Art Samk performing as part of their studies.

The Haunted Objects performance club brings together object-oriented performances that explore the underlying nature, deviant behaviour and new meanings of things, tools and goods.

The performance club is curated by artists Aeon Lux and Alan Bulfin.

“When the unnamable is sacrificed, things are named and they become as beings. They become controllable, their nature becomes predictable and boring. At the same time, things gain abillity to rebel. To be possessed and not to behave.” – Aeon Lux. 

Programme timetable

Be curious, come and spend the evening with us enjoying performance art!

 

Artists

Leena Kela

Leena Kela  is a performance artist, artistic director of the New Performance Turku Biennale and  works as residency director of Saari Residence maintained by Kone Foundation. She has worked with performance art for twenty years and is currently doing her doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. In her works she explores dialogue of corporeality and materiality in performance art. She makes performances that play with and twist our relationship with everyday objects. She has presented her performances internationally in performance art festivals, events and exhibitions in every continent except Antarctica.

 

Yun-Chen Chang

Yun-Chen Chang is a Helsinki-based Taiwanese performance artist working across choreography, performance and visual arts. Her performance practice has evolved around a vulnerable body in a changing environment, a question of home, and a dream full of transformative potential. Still Changing and Relax on a Shaky Ground are two of her performance projects in which she performs with a large scale of chairs and tables with the intention of hosting an audience in a strange and precarious home. She is fascinated by the singularity of everyday objects in exploring site-specific movement variations. Her performance practice is characterized by playfulness and subtleness, risk and trust, vulnerability and endurance, subversion and transformation. She practices negotiating, collaborating and observing power dynamics in a temporary audience community or in the context of artistic collaboration. She also experiments with different modes of spectatorship in a shared space.

Yun-Chen Chang is currently based in Finland as a MA student in Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. She has worked with Taiwanese performance artist River Lin on several projects including “My Body is a Queer Library” shortlisted for Anti Contemporary Art Festival 2022 and “Sunrise Sunset” shortlisted for Taipei Art rewards 2021. She has also worked with Legend Lin Dance Theatre, American visual artist Liz Magic Laser, French choreographer Claude Brumachon, Japanese Butoh choreographer Yukio Waguri among others.

 

Parsa Kamehkhosh

Parsa Kamehkhosh is a performance artist and designer currently residing in Vantaa, Finland. His practice explores the matter of “being in the world” in the context of the interaction between daily life and the notion of life on the existential level. He often employs objects and materials as manifestations of contemporary human everyday aesthetics and in relation to various narratives (sometimes “religious” narratives) that define the position of humans in the universe and beyond. His works maneuver on the borders of the inner and external worlds, natural and supernatural, seen and unseen. Kamehkhosh’s art spans various media, with a primary focus on performance art, and has been showcased predominantly in Europe, the Middle East, and the US. His fascination with materials, objects, and everyday aesthetics led him to pursue studies in industrial design at Tehran University of Fine Arts, followed by further exploration in Aesthetics and Meaning-making at Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm, and Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Arts at Aalto University.

Anni-Maaria Leppänen

Anni-Maaria Leppänen

Anni-Maaria Leppänen is a third year visual art student from SAMK Kankaanpää art school. She is focused on performance art and also curiously explores the dimensions of site-spesific and community art in her practice. Her work is characterized by experiencing places personally, especially in forests: walking on familiar and unfamiliar paths is the source of her work.  The topics she is interested in are the human relationship with nature and place. Anni-Maaria lives and works in both Kankaanpää and Helsinki and has previously graduated as a cultural geographer from the University of Helsinki. She has done solo and group performances.

Aino Oikarinen is third year student from SAMK Kankaanpää Art School. She is especially interested in depicting fantastical monsters and strange creatures in art, whether it is painting, drawing, sculpture or performance art. Her biggest sources of inspiration are mysteries, mythology, movies, literature and video games. She is from Oulu but lives currently in Kankaanpää.

 

Production by Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, contact person: art producer Pii Anttila pii.anttila@seinajoki.fi