Läpinäkyvyydestä / Exercises in Transparency
Scenography and performance
Exercises in Transparency is a live art and artistic
research project that examines the ideal of openness and transparency in
modern society.
At the heart of the work is a contradictory, perhaps also childlike need: to be seen but to remain hidden.
According to the philosopher Byung-Chul Han, we live
in a society of transparency where constant interaction has become an
unquestioned ideal.
Han connects transparency with, for example,
interpersonal relationships, symbolically equates it with pornography,
and raises questions of power, control, and lack of trust:
“(A) transparent relationship is a dead one, altogether lacking attraction and vitality.”
Navigating between everyday life and art, Exercises in Transparency does not offer predigested statements, but invites the audience to reflect on the topic together with the artists. The work consists of a series of performances to be seen in the fall of 2022, each approaching the topic from a different perspective, with different means of live art.
WORKING GROUP:
- Performance artist and journalist Katriina Kettunen
- Scenographer-performer Kristian Palmu
- Sound designer-performer Oula Rytkönen
Production: Reality Research Center & Kulttuurikeskus Caisa.
The working group received support for 2021 from Taike and
Katriina Kettunen’s work has been supported by Kone Foundation’s Saari
Residence.
My priliminary work in the summer before mutual rehearsals was supported by Taike (Arts Promotion Center Finland).
Documention photography by Jan Ahlstedt.
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