Thurs 29 Feb 2024 from 5.30 pm till 7.30 pm

Welcome to the opening ceremony of a new Vantaa-based performance art platform The Other Side at the Vantaa Art Museum Artsi.

The event is open to all.

Opening ceremony programme:

Welcome words

Aman Askarizad & Parsa Kamehkhosh: Introduction of The Other Side Platform

The Other Side
Co-founded by artists and curators Aman Askarizad and Parsa Kamehkhosh, is a platform dedicated to nurturing and promoting performance art in Martinlaakso, Vantaa. Supported by the Kone Foundation, The Other Side has committed to curating a live performance art festival in Vantaa, a Sidewalk art project and screening events.

Performances:

Jakub Bobrowski & Szymon Stemplewski: Walk

The performance starts at 12.00 from Helsinki Railway Station on the Elielinaukio side and ends at Artsi at 17.30. You can join the performance.

Jakub Bobrowski: Graduate of Master’s Programme in VICCA at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Previously, after first MA in film and literature studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, he worked with film festivals as programmer and coordinator. For several years now he has been developing an interest in slow and grounding practices like woodcut and lino printing, ceramics, foraging, long distance walking and cycling.

Szymon Steplewski: Graduate of Cultural Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Completed studies at the Faculty of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. Diploma in 2009 in the studio of Prof. Piotr C. Kowalski. Creates using various media mainly drawing, walking and photography. Initiator and curator of various cultural and artistic events.


Olga Spyropoulou & Julius Elo: The Untitled: Breath Play
*Note! This work may upset sensitive viewers.

Olga Spyropoulou (she/her) is a Finland-based performance artist and writer. She experiments with various modalities of spect-actorship and non-hierarchical methodologies. In her work, she explores questions of encounter, agency and consent and how those translate in language.

Julius Elo (they/them) is a Helsinki-based live artist who creates performance concepts and participatory performances where the audience is set at the core of the piece in different ways. Elo is one of the founders of Reality Research Center. 

Qiong Zhang & Leik Silvestrini: The Table Manner

Qiong Zhang is an artist-researcher and poet based in Helsinki, Finland. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki. Her artistic practice plays with performative gestures and choreographed images to reveal hidden political issues related to surveillance, contamination, and patriarchal narratives in various social-cultural contexts.

Leik Silvestrini (b. 1995) is a queer, non-binary artist from Oslo, Norway. With their feet planted firmly in playfulness and performativity, their extensive projects emerge from the environment they find themselves in. The past years their focus has been on creating characters that enter existing situations in public and private space, attempting to break with false dichotomies such as human/animal, fiction/reality and stranger/friend.

Warmly welcome!