LAPSody 2011

3rd International Conference & Festival for Live Art and Performance Studies
at the Theatre Academy Helsinki

June 7th - 12th, 2011

LAPSody 2011 is a conference and festival that explores and questions ideas about perception, embodiment, transformation and encounters. Peculiar angles pertaining to cycles of popularity (acceptance and norms) in performance, academia, everyday life, and art are considered from various positions. The aim of LAPSody is to form and sustain professional networks, which address sustainability of Live Art practice in the globalised world today.

LAPSody 2011 is curated by Suvadeep Das, Christina Georgiou, Sari TM Kivinen, Katariina Mylläri, Ilka Theurich and Tuuli Tubin.

Producers are Johanna Autio and Maria Kaihovirta. Stage managers are Selmeri Saukkonen, Vesa Rämä and Heikki Rosti.

visiting address:
Teatterikorkeakoulu
Haapaniemenkatu 6
00530 Helsinki
 

PROGRAMME

Tuesday 7th of June

9:30am Morning coffee

10am - 3pm Workshop by Nathalie Bikoro - Fear Nano Politics

10am - 5pm MayDay - Practical Workshop on Performance Art by VestAndPage
 
Lobby/Tori
 
all day Installation by Ilka Theurich - Kallio my Kallio

Wednesday 8th of June

9:30am Morning coffee with Sari Kivinen

Session I // opening and moderator Professor Annette Arlander

10am Opening

10:10am Presentation by Nathalie Bikoro - The Race to Intensity

11am Presentation by Tuuli Tubin - Beyond the Wind in Front of Me / A Space Ship Journey – a memory image

11:30am Break

Session II // moderator Ilka Theurich and Sari TM Kivinen

12am Presentation by Larissa Ferreira - The tactical performance in Brazil

12:30pm Presentation by Lynn Lu - “A Punch in the Gut: Experiential Knowledge, Empathy, and Performance Art”

1pm Presentation by Suvadeep Das - How "The Other" communicates in the space of 'An-Other'

1:30 pm Lunch

3pm Workshop by Suvadeep Das - How "The Other" communicates in the space of 'An-Other'

5pm Break

6pm Presentation by JULIACKS - Performance Art in Narrative, Narrative in Performance Art

Lobby/Tori

11am - 3pm Cara Davies - Instability in Stability (live stream feed )

4pm - 6pm Cara Davies - possible dialogue through Skype

all day Installation by Ilka Theurich - Kallio my Kallio

Live Performance

2:30pm - 6pm Performance by Nathalie Bikoro: Stasiduck Interactive Opera (Space 532)

Thursday 9th of June

9:30am Morning coffee with Sari Kivinen

Session III // moderator Suvadeep Das 

10am Presentation by Ilka Theurich - The delicacy of encounter

10:30am Presentation by Katariina Mylläri - Performance Art: Fiction in Action

11am Break

Session IV // moderator Christina Georgiou 

11:15am Presentation by Sari Kivinen - Discussing Spin-Fold-Spill

11:45am Presentation by VestAndPage - Body Issues in Performance Art Between heory and Praxis

12:15pm Presentation by Riccardo Attanasio - Diagramer

12:45pm Lunch

2pm - 5pm Workshop by Tashi Iwaoka - Way of the Dragon - prologue to ecentralising brain

2pm - 6pm Workshop by Béatrice Didier - Body/Bodies and Space

Lobby/Tori

11am - 3pm Cara Davies - Instability in Stability (live stream feed )

4pm - 6pm Cara Davies - possible dialogue through Skype

all day Installation by Ilka Theurich - Kallio my Kallio
 
Live Performance

7pm Performance by Tukk Sitta - Reel 2 Reel

Friday 10th of June

9:30am Morning coffee with Sari Kivinen

Session V // moderator Annette Arlander

10am Presentation/keynote by Oreet Ashery

11am Presentation by Pilar Talavera - Performance and the return of aura in contemporary art

11:30am Break

Session VI // moderator Katariina Mylläri

12am Presentation by Christina Georgiou - Mapping the Body

12:30pm Presentation by Mark Harvey - Performance Test Labour

1pm Lunch

Session VII // moderator Tuuli Tubin

2pm Presentation by Ernest Truely - Virtual Performance Art

3:30pm Presentation by Amal Laala - Activity not Passivity

4pm Presentation by Marcel Sparmann - Performance Art Studies - An introduction to an Independent Performance Art Study Program

4:30pm Coffee break

5pm - 6:30pm Workshop by Mark Harvey - Presencing, Resisting: Being Good and Not So Good

6:30pm Concluding discussion chaired by professor Annette Arlander

Lobby/Tori

11am - 3pm Cara Davies - Instability in Stability (live stream feed)
 
all day Installation by Ilka Theurich - Kallio my Kallio 
 
Live Performances 

7pm Performance by Larissa Ferreira - Vulto (Studio 1, Theatre Academy Helsinki. Tickets: 6€/3€)

7:30pm Performance by Ilka Theurich (Studio 4, Theatre Academy Helsinki. Tickets: 6€/3€)

8pm Performance by Pilar Talavera - How to get closer with your eyes closed: the grandmother chapter. From the series: Homeless (Studio 1, Theatre Academy Helsinki. Tickets: 6€/3€)