Take This Touch Inside Your Body - video file

Abstract

Take This Touch Inside Your Body / Kaisa Kukkonen Take This Touch Inside Your Body is a collection of performative practices and poems-as-scores that explore the permanence and accumulation of touch. The event makes visible how touch, words, and sound move through our bodies and leave their traces. The audience will witness poetic actions, words in unexpected places, and reflecting on touch in their own lives.Kaisa Kukkonen is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Finland. She works with the poetry of movement, politics of touch, and somatic practices. Her background is in dance, words, and performance.Performance timesWed 24.8. 17:00-18:00Thu 25.8. 16:30 and 21:00-22:00Fri 26.8. 19:00-21:00Sat 27.8 15:00 + at 16:00 Q&A with Angela RawlingsPerformers: Bergþóra Ægisdóttir, Katarina Huber, Kaisa Kukkonen Hosts: Linde Rongen and Meeri MäkinenStill images: Dan FarberoffMusic: Olli AarniThanks: In intra-action, conversations, and collaborations with Katarina Huber, Dan Farberoff, Synes Elischka and Vilma Riitijoki (pupucollective), Milla Martikainen, Angela Rawlings, Mart Piirimees, Kerly Ritval, Brogan Davison, Meeri Mäkinen, Nita Little, Helga Arnalds, Amó Ólafsdóttir, Gunnella Hólmarsdóttir, Sóley Frostadottir, Vala Rúnarsdóttir, the Atlantic Ocean, whales I haven’t seen but I know exist, trauma therapy, the Contact Improvisation community, the war in Ukraine, loneliness, aloneness, lovers, the best kiss, Improv Enthusiasts, waters and pools especially at Nauthólsvík. Thank you for support.ATH verkið fer fram á ensku // The piece is performed in english.