Artists:

Satu Lähdeoja, Sofia Koski, Tangmo Sophonkunkit. Thank you Tatu Heinämäki, Essi Kausalainen, Satu Herrala, Kaino Wennerstrand, Marleena Halonen

Co-curated by:

Tiina Latva, Yen-Ching Lu, Rutger Blom, Myriam Gras, Martin Born

In three differently-themed performances, The Heiress will explore the idea of heritage and the organisation of inheriting as a momentous space of imagination for societies pressed between questions of continuity and transformation. In a game-like interplay, The Heiress will focus on and seek to imagine differently the distributions of agency around moments of heritage across its habitual, familial, economic, institutional, and cosmological dimensions: Who gets to determine what is inherited, and on what conditions? What is dictated? What expected? What owed? How can we conceive heritage as a space of shared political agency and imaginational negotiation?

The role of the performers in the piece will be to improvisationally embody human and nonhuman "characters" that connect in various ways in the heritage nexus, ranging from human figures to abstract ideas, from pieces of infrastructure to organic entities, and from archetypes to modifying processes. The improvisation will be directed in time by prompts in the form of character cards provided to the performers’ players by the audience players.

Event | Exhibitions | Performances

Fog is a cloud that touches the ground

Thursday 18.5. - Sunday 21.5.2023

Vuosaarentie 7, Helsinki

Photos: ©️ by Timjune Tianjun Li

——————

This performance is a part of the Fog is a cloud that touches the ground event

Fog is a cloud that touches the ground is a transdisciplinary event that brings together five curatorial projects presenting work in response to the shared theme of crisis. The projects delve into concepts of legacy, feminist narratives, informational skepticism, numbness and the state of being overwhelmed as a reaction to adversity. With work varying from textile and performing arts to sound and video installation among other media, the event invites you to reflect on your own relationship with divergent forms and representations of crises.