How to do things with performance? -research project is proud to present the 11th issue of Ruukku – Studies in Artistic Research devoted to the theme How to do things with performance? Not only what should be done, but how it should be done is today a question as relevant as ever. And some argue we should actually do less, and think a bit more, for example how we do what we do. In the research project How to do things with performance, focuses on performance in a broad sense, asking what can be or could be done with performance and how.

You are welcome to come and celebrate the 11th publication of the Ruukku journal on Thursday 23rd of May at 6–8pm in Publics.

Ruukku is a multidisciplinary, multilingual, peer-reviewed journal on artistic research launched in 2013. Ruukku is published and supported by the University of the Arts Helsinki, Aalto school of Arts, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland, with a particular focus on multi-lingual publication. The primary languages of publication are Finnish, Swedish and English.

The Expositions in Ruukku 11 How to do things with performance?

Stephen Bain: Strategies of Fiction
Mieko Kanno: Algorithmic Thinking and Musical Performance
Anu Vehviläinen:  Quest for a Breathing Performance
Elisabeth Belgrano: A Singing Orna/Mentor’s Performance or Ir/rational Practice
Lea and Pekka Kantonen: Indigenous Knowledge. Performance Art and the Faltering Act of Translation
Elina Seye: Practices of Performing at Senegalese Sabar Dance Events
Hanna Järvinen: Re-imagining: A Case-study of Exercises and Strategies
Pilvi Porkola: Objects that matter – performance art and objects
Tero Nauha: The experience of ‘something’ in performance
Annette Arlander: Return to the site of the Year of the Rooster