2020 – Acta Scenica

Pessi Parviainen When Nothing Is Called Music: Ecological Composition

Rania Lee Khalil The Third World Ecology TrilogyThe Third World Ecology Trilogy is a moving image performance and artistic research project by Rania Lee Khalil which investigates the harms of colonialism across interspecies habitats in Palestine, the Egyptian Sinai and the continent of Africa more broadly, at a time of widespread anticolonial revolutions in the mid 20th century.
Jaana Irmeli Turunen Herkkää ja hiljaista vastarintaa – tanssin muuttuva toimijuusRuumiillinen, taiteellinen toimijuus voi olla pientä, näkymätöntä näkyvässä, ja kuitenkin [...]
Mikko Orpana Choreographed by situation: self-organizing choreography and the dancer’s agencementchoreography is approached as a self-organizing system and investigated for the requirements that this kind of approach demands from the choreographic thinking and practice and the dancer’s work to make the selforganization happen.
Pessi Parviainen When Nothing Is Called Music: Ecological CompositionThere is artistic practice that could be called both music and non-music. Such cases are evidence of an insufficiency in discourse: we cannot properly talk about them because ‘music’ isn’t a suitable word to address them. A selection of such cases is presented, from unusual instruments and performance strategies to composed theatre, including examples from Parviainen’s own artistic practice.