Performance

  • Biased

    BIASED is an interactive performance that divides the audience into two groups. At the entrance, each audience member chooses between Actor A and Actor B based only on their photographs. According to their choice, they are led to opposite sides of the stage and separated by a wall built from cardboard boxes. Each box bears…

  • For This Dance, I Will Take the Lead

    Together with around six participants, I host a collective dance event. As the audience gathers on the dance floor, the participants, one by one, invite everyone to dance to a song of their choice. Before the music begins, each participant shares a period in their life when they lost control. Now, they take the lead,…

  • Room to Breath

    Room to Breathe (FIN: Tilaihme) begins with a simple fact: I have graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts’ Time and Space department. As a Master of Time and Space, I invite the audience into a conversation about all the spaces we bring with us into this shared space and moment. Through the play of…

  • Playing Adults

    The performance turned the playground into an absurd stage of adulthood, and created an awkward tension and dialogue between generations. Four adult actors presented children ́s views about adulthood, with the audience following them and occasionally participating in the acts. As they slid down, they shouted what kind of adults they didn’t want become. While…

  • Temporary Pavilion for Permanent Negotiations

    A storyteller shared stories of conflict collected from local residents in a sandbox. As the audience gathered around an arena made of sand and tailor-made props, she made the conflicts visible and tangible. To a passer-by, it looked like an ordinary storytelling session in a playground. Oliver and I created the project for Cure Park…

  • Recycling You

    As the name suggests, I host a recycling event. Audience members exchange old opinions. An idea you no longer need may be interesting to someone else. Some opinions are needed by nobody. I have performed Recycling You at numerous festivals and art events since its premiere at the Teatteri Nyt festival at Kiasma, Helsinki, in…

  • Tunneluonto

    In the Finnish language, tunne luonto refers both to “knowing nature” and “feeling nature.” In our interactive Tunneluonto walk, Maija Hirvanen and I invited participants to reflect on the relationship between knowledge and sensation in their experience of nature. The tour was originally planned for Vartiosaari and the Helsinki Botanical Garden, but it can be…

  • JOKAklubi

    JOKAklubi is a group of Finnish visual artist and performers Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raito and Tellervo Kalleinen.

  • COMPLAINTS CHOIR

    Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen 2005-2014Many commissioners, including Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Kiasma (Helsinki), Nordwind festival (Berlin), Pro Arte (St. Petersburg), Fringe festival (Singapore) The COMPLAINTS CHOIR project invites people to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers. We organised the first choir in Birmingham followed by the Complaints Choirs of Helsinki, St.…

  • Family Comes Home

    Family Comes Home takes place in a private home, where audience members are thrown into an odd family reunion. The evening explores the stories of ancestors that audience members carry with them, whether they remember them or not. The performance consists of three acts: Memory Game, Odd Family Party and The Play. Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and…

  • The Summit of Practical Utopias

    The Summit of Practical Utopias gathered 35 activists, artists, game designers, researchers and visionaries on the island of Brioni, President Tito’s former summer residency in the Croatian Adriatic Sea.

  • What I Wish I Had Learned In School

    A Performative lesson series. The artists Maija Hirvanen, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen invited people to contribute a 45 minute lesson about what they wished they had learned in school.

  • Home Theatre

    The performance took place in a private home in Mannheim, Germany. Audience members arrived in pairs, and each participatory performance lasted 10 minutes. They were invited to choose one of the plates on the dining table. Under each plate was a script describing a situation that had once taken place around that very table. The…

  • An Etude for Everlasting Life

    We gave a performative crash course in the roles of helping and being helped. Following a brief introduction, the performance took place in pairs behind the closed doors of private ”clinic rooms”. One participant took the role of the helper, the other the role of the person seeking help. Before entering the room, the rules…

  • The Speech Karaoke

    The Speech Karaoke Action Group  developed a karaoke system for speeches.

  • Let Me

    The performer and the audience sit in darkness, discussing light. The performance was curated by Anders Härm for the 2005 NU Festival at Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn.

  • YKON

    YKON was founded as an artistic initiative and platform for exploring utopian fantasies and the political imaginary in relation to concrete sociopolitical structures and concerns.

  • The First Summit of Micronations, Helsinki 2003

    In 2003 The First Summit of Micronations was organised in Helsinki in the historical setting of Finlandia House. During the three day event the representatives of the micronations had a closed round table discussion, a gala evening and temporary embassies.