The One-Day Stand No.5 comes to our audiences in collaboration with Vantaa Art Museum Artsi and within the context of the exhibition, Steps in the City. As the exhibition explores the cultural and visual dimensions of urban space, performance art brings these themes into the present moment through live and lived action and direct engagement. Its ephemeral and embodied nature resists fixed meanings, inviting audiences to witness and participate in shifting dynamics of presence, power, and public space. Whether through subtle gestures or bold interventions, performance art creates fleeting yet impactful encounters, transforming the way we experience the public and private spaces and the relationships within it.

Location: Vantaa Art Museum Artsi
Time: Thursday, June 5th, 2025, at 5 PM-8 PM

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Artists

-Marita Bullmann:
Marita Bullmann lives and works as an artist in Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown throughout Europe, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, North and South America and Asia. Since 2013 she has been the organizer and curator of the performance art platform INTERVAL. 2022 she founded the network platform and calendar Zeit.Raum.Ruhr for art spaces and initiatives in the Ruhr region. In 2023 she received the art award from the Allbau Cultural Foundation for her artistic and cultural work in Essen, Germany. 2023-2025 she organized Laundry Clash – a performance and free jazz music format in laundromats. 2025 Organiser and curator of “Voliere”, an artspace in Bochum, Germany.

-Olga Laine & Lisa Holmén:
We are a performance collective founded in 2024.
We are interested in highlighting multidisciplinarity by immersing ourselves into the space that we share with materials, sound, movement and light. In our works familiarity often intertwines with unfamiliarity.
Olga Laine graduated from Turku Art Academy’s department of Photography in 2024. Lisa Holmén focuses on sculpture and three-dimensional work and graduates from Turku Art Academy in spring 2025.

-Vera Boitcova:
Theatre director, dramaturge, queer performance artist, and political activist. Doctoral researcher at Uniarts Helsinki. MA in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research (Uniarts and Goethe University Frankfurt) + MA in Theatre and Performance (Queen Mary University of London). A long-time nomad, Boitcova has lived, worked, and performed in the UK, China, Germany, Spain, and Finland over the past 12 years. Boitcova’s work often delves into queer narratives and political themes, examining identity and activism through multimedia, site-specific, and immersive formats.

-Jani Petter Virta:
I’m a visual artist, and from the year 2001 onwards I’ve done over 90 premieres of performances. In my performance art I often dabble on corporeality of my own body/image, while trying to find connections with other bodies are they animal or plant or machines or rocks, living or dead. I am best described as a humorist and a moralist.

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The Other Side follows Safer Space Guidlines.

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The Other Side, is a platform based in Vantaa dedicated to nurturing and promoting performance art. It is committed to curating live performance events, and educational programs that stimulate dialogue, inclusivity, and collaboration within the art community. The Other Side is supported by @koneensaatio