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Platonin Pidot: TRIALOGI, Galleria Oksasenkatu11, 5.-20.8.2015

[scroll down for English]   TRIALOGI tutkii antiikin Kreikan kulttuurista perintöä nykytaiteen kontekstissa. Se on elävä installaatio, joka lähestyy filosofiaa Platonin aikalaisten tapaan elämän opiskeluna. Dialogia käyvät kolme arkkityyppistä voimaa: ylhäällä hallitsee kirkas Apollon, välissä hämärä Hermes ja alhaalla pimeä Dionysos. Näyttelyn taiteilijat ovat teoksia rakentaessaan työskennelleet näiden arkkityyppien kanssa ja jatkavat prosessia galleriatilassa näyttelyn

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Fake Gun and the Nipple of Dionysos – On Metaphors of Theatre and Performance

Published in Finnish in Esitys magazine 1/2014. A by-stander noticed a ”long gun” in the hand of a ”man” at the bridge of Halinen. Several police patrols were called there fast. At the site the police commanded with a loud voice that the gunman put the object down. It became clear that the gunman was a young boy

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Royal Performance – the Gobelins of Christiansborg

The text was published originally in Esitys magazine 4/2012.   17 giant tapestries fill the walls of the great hall in the former royal castle of Denmark, Christiansborg. The tapestries depict in a cartoonlike, excessive and baffling way the history, present and future of Denmark. In the gobelin of the present the ruling queen Margareta II offers in

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In Search of the Future of Theater – binational festival theaterszene europa 2010 in Cologne

Published in Esitys magazine 3/10.   theaterszene europa is a binational festival organized by studiobühneköln, a theater that functions independently under the administration of the University of Cologne. The festival has been active for almost 30 years, and since 1987 it has presented every year performances from Germany and one other european nation. In 2010

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