Look out to the sea, smell the wind, put your headphones on and watch the gulls and dancers strutting in the square. What if the boundaries between the human and seagull could blur?
Lokkijuttu (in English Gulling) is a site-specific performance located at the Market Square, where more than human realities are observed and imagined. We invite the audience to take a moment to pause amongst the hustle and bustle of the Market Square and follow seagulls and dancers dancing seagull. Through the performers’ movement and the text and sound heard from the headphones, the familiar urban environment and the gulls inhabiting it might be seen from a new, more empathetic perspective.
Working group/ Ollab: Matilda Aaltonen, Taru Aho, Mia Jalerva, Riikka Lakea and Markus Tapio.
Production: Reality Research Center and Ollab
The piece premiered as part of Reality Research Center's Performance Wagon in August 2021.
Supporters: Kone Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Tour: Manifesti festival, Turku (2023)
The performance was part of the research project “Can animals be expressed? The challenges of conceptualising animals in sciences and arts.”
Written about the performance (in Finnish):
Matilda Aaltosen ja Salla Tuomivaaran yhteinen teksti Lokkien kertomisesta (2022) Jälki / Trace, vol. 8. Linkki tekstiin täällä.
Elisa Aaltola kirjoittaa esityksestä Voiko eläintä kertoa? -blogissa tekstissään Kerronnasta: eronteko ja yhteys (2021). Teksti luettavissa täällä.
Lokkijuttu (in English Gulling) is a site-specific performance located at the Market Square, where more than human realities are observed and imagined. We invite the audience to take a moment to pause amongst the hustle and bustle of the Market Square and follow seagulls and dancers dancing seagull. Through the performers’ movement and the text and sound heard from the headphones, the familiar urban environment and the gulls inhabiting it might be seen from a new, more empathetic perspective.
Working group/ Ollab: Matilda Aaltonen, Taru Aho, Mia Jalerva, Riikka Lakea and Markus Tapio.
Production: Reality Research Center and Ollab
The piece premiered as part of Reality Research Center's Performance Wagon in August 2021.
Supporters: Kone Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Tour: Manifesti festival, Turku (2023)
The performance was part of the research project “Can animals be expressed? The challenges of conceptualising animals in sciences and arts.”
Written about the performance (in Finnish):
Matilda Aaltosen ja Salla Tuomivaaran yhteinen teksti Lokkien kertomisesta (2022) Jälki / Trace, vol. 8. Linkki tekstiin täällä.
Elisa Aaltola kirjoittaa esityksestä Voiko eläintä kertoa? -blogissa tekstissään Kerronnasta: eronteko ja yhteys (2021). Teksti luettavissa täällä.
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Photos: Iiro Rautiainen
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