Suvi Kemppainen Puija

Suvi Kemppainen: Puija

Puija is my imaginary friend from my childhood. I do think imaginary friends are for adults too. With this performance named after Puija, I want to celebrate and highlight our strength to fantasise, and create immaterial companionships even if – and especially when – our surroundings are penetrating us with normative expectations and hostile messages. The unconscious world is too wild to be left alone, we must unleash spontaneity.

Performances at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo

Sat 5.10. at 19 premiere
Thu 10.10. at 19
Fri 11.10. at 19
Sun 13.10. at 17

Tickets: 5–25 €

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Puija is the third part of Suvi Kemppainen’s performance trilogy (teething 2021 and no, but very close to the bone 2022) on immaterial ownership and performer’s agency in artistic processes. These themes have affected Kemppainen towards a movement practice informed by the ownership of the body and its bones – and also the letting go of this ownership.

Kemppainen’s artistic practice, psychopoetic dance, refers to a precisely choreographed, associative travel in the sphere of performance, delving deep into the psyche. Kemppainen finds political value in the ephemeral nature of dance and wonders how to work with immaterial media, such as dance or performance, in the context of constant commodification. Who owns a dance that has been danced? In Puija performance the working group is in touch with three immaterial others: imaginary friend, sickness, and choreographic rooms of the body.

Suvi Kemppainen is an internationally working choreographer, dancer, performer and performance maker. Suvi’s works are deeply embedded in their movement and performance practice. This practice is anchored in questions around immaterial ownership and fantastic psychosomatic dance, which are a constant parallel to the stage works, performances and workshops they facilitate and create. After graduating as a dancer from North Karelia College Outokumpu in Finland Suvi continued their choreography studies at the University of Arts Berlin HZT, graduating in 2019. Kemppainen’s works have been presented at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki, Kutomo Contemporary Art Space in Turku, Sophiensaele in Berlin, Ballhaus Ost in Berlin and at the Zodiak Center for New Dance in Helsinki.

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Ehkä-production follows safer space guidelines. Unfortunately, the space at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo is not fully accessible; there are stairs and there are no accessible toilets at the venue.