A walk on the edge is a performative experience and a collective journey in Fenais da Luz, a village on the North coast of São Miguel Island. The pathway connects Azores’ history, a local tragedy from the 1980s, and the audience members’ personal relationship to owning. Starting from the overwhelming idea that If you live…
Conference in Denmark, May 20th 2022 At THE ART OF DETOUR(S), we investigated the expanded field of artistic strategies and practices working with site-specific and public art projects. We explored how art projects are framed, transformed, and entangled into local contexts. We discussed how detours, in theory, and practice, can form new modes of…
The supplementary Centriphery programme of events includes an exhibition, a virtual reality artwork, an audio play, and discussions. Entry is free, but pre-booking is required for some events. All events take place at Espoo City Theatre (Revontulentie 8).
How can art help us recreate stories of the future? Event at Espoo City Theatre on Thursday the 19th of May, 2022. The event will also be streamed online. Register by the 15th of May.
BIASED is an interactive performance inviting us to explore the mind tricks and unconscious factors that guide our actions. The performance tackles cognitive biases and the mechanisms related to them. The audience pick a side and are simultaneously afforded an opportunity to observe how the mind works as it is gently guided along. BIASED was…
The artistic working group in Espoo is made up of five artists: Matija Kezele from Croatia, Fred Nevche from France, and Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Anna-Mari Karvonen from Finland. The artistic team prepared a workshop that was held at Omnia, a local Espoo education provider, in October 2021. The workshop participants were Omnia’s visual arts students. In workshops, concrete examples were used to…
In the autumn of 2019, Anna-Mari Karvonen spent three weeks in Delnice in Croatia.
It is dark outside and a lot colder than our first visit. It is February. We arrive for our second residency in Mrkopalj. Besides the colder weather, everything seems the same. There is still no snow and there are still no tourists. Helena, the woman responsible for the hostel is waiting for us outside, just…
The project in DenmarkIn Denmark, the Centriphery project moved into the district of Sydhavn, located on the outskirts of Copenhagen. In close collaboration with the local partner Sydhavn Theatre, the residents of Sydhavn, four handpicked international artists, and local artists initiated events during autumn 2019, spring and autumn 2020. Artists settled in Sydhavnen three timesThe…
A story about our first residency in Mrkopalj Written by Saskia de Haas A beginning of a collaboration is always exciting. You never know what to expect, where to start and how the collaboration will succeed. You never know if there is a connection with the other artist, with the village and with the people…