The artist performs during six days in Kiasma. Each performance lasts six hours. Performances are part of Navigating North exhibition programme.

24.1.2023 at 11–17

25.1.2023 at 11–17

26.1.2023 at 11–17

27.1.2023 at 11–17

28.1.2023 at 11–17

29.1.2023 at 11–17

The entire museum

Tickets: with a museum ticket
With a museum ticket when the performances is not in the 1st floor.

About

Performance artist John Court performs six days for six hours in Kiasma during one week.The performances are located in different sites each day.

Artist

John Court (b. 1969 in the UK) has been living and working in Tornio, Finland, since 1997. Court is a durational performance artist. Time is one of the most important elements in his work. Often he performs for 8 hours, the length of a workday. Other times he performs throughout an entire event or during the opening hours of the specific venue (museum, institution), in which the event takes place, on each single day.

Lately he has been interested in letting the objects and materials that he uses in his performances determine the duration of his work. He does not consider his performances as solo pieces, since the element of collaboration is inherent in them, be it through his engagement with curators, organizers, artists, viewers, objects, spaces and time. Court’s works are responsive to the site and often the continuous, repetitive action creates a rhythm that runs parallel to that of the site. In all his works he is fundamentally concerned with drawing or writing, as drawing connects line, movement, space and time. 

He has exhibited extensively and has been invited to perform at major events such as Das Dicke Ende in Bern Art Museum Switzerland (2018), MA, Art Museum in Rouyn-Noranda Canada (2018), UP-ON Live Art festival Chengdu China (2017), SIGNAL Festival in Brussels Belgium (2017), Beijing Live in China (2016), Viva! Art Action festival in Montreal, Canada (2015), 7a*11d in Toronto, Canada, DigitaLive in Guangzhou, China (2014), SpaceX Gallery Exeter in UK (2012), Guangzhou Live Art Festival in China (2010), ANTI Contemporary Art Festival in Finland (2010), the Venice Biennale (2005) and the Liverpool Biennial (2004).

John Court

Piste Collective

Piste is a collective of artists and art educators who share a passion to do art in relation to their community. Cross-art Collective Piste produces high-quality and distinctive contemporary circus, dance and theatre performances and applied art projects. 

Piste is based in the town of Rovaniemi at the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland, but performs nationwide and internationally. Piste has twentyone members, all of whom are professional artists or art educators from the fields of contemporary circus, dance, theatre, puppet theatre, music, visual arts, light art and media arts.

The collective brings to an audience of altogether 3000 spectators on average 60 performances and 5-10 premieres yearly. Its artwork can be seen and experienced in traditional and non-traditional spaces.

Piste Kollektiivi