Evening Session: Veni Vidi Voice & My Body the Earth
Wednesday evening session offers an invitation to the explorations into the realm of Venus. First, Ida-Marie Corell gives an audiovisual performance of her work on Venus, and after artists Pia Palme, Satu Hakamäki and Elie Halonen will share their 30-minute performative ecology. It all will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
Veni Vidi Voice
Ida-Marie Corell, artist, performer, researcher and polysynesthete
My Body the Earth
Elie Halonen, visual artist, shibari artist
Satu Hakamäki, dance and live art artist
Pia Palme, composer, artistic researcher, performer
Veni Vidi Voice by Ida-Marie Corell
Veni Vidi Voice is an audiovisual live performance that translates Ida-Marie Corell’s research, artistic practice, and engagement with the Venusian archetypes into an acoustic dimension. As a synesthete, music plays a central role in her work, intertwining visual and auditory perception.
Corell views art as a medium of knowledge transfer that unfolds in social sculptures, as seen in her network project Technologies of HER – an interdisciplinary art, research, and knowledge initiative exploring cyclical, rhythmic, and matriarchal intelligences, as well as ancient linguistic perceptions such as synaesthesia.
My Body the Earth
My Body the Earth is a ritual that brings together contemporary dance, shibari (rope bondage), sound, voice, and moving image. In ABOAGORA, the artists Pia Palme, Satu Hakamäki, and Elie Halonen will share their 30-minute performative ecology, followed by a discussion with the audience.
My Body the Earth explores possible interactions with the more-than-human world through the planetary, mythological, and symbolic agency of Venus. Venus invites us to rethink love as a generative force that can strike like lightning, flashing right through our entangled becomings, as bodies, sounds, and matter move together.
Through a posthuman prism, My Body the Earth creates a landscape where the intimate co-existence of pleasure and pain is embraced, as part of an ecology in which human and more-than-human bodies are constantly reshaping each other.
The Earth is a living, intimate presence, even within the body itself. Love, anchored in immanence, unfolds as an agency of connection and transformation. My Body the Earth offers an invitation to witness and to feel with – an invitation to enter a universe that composes a polyphony of becomings.
Content disclaimer: The performance contains shibari, also called rope bondage, in which a person is tied and their movement is restricted by the rope. The rope bondage seen in the performance is consensual and executed with the utmost care.
Performers
Ida-Marie Corell studied Fine and Media Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she earned her doctorate in Art and Knowledge Transfer in 2010. During her Erasmus studies at Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo, she further developed her interdisciplinary approach. Her artistic practice is also reflected in publications such as Alltagsobjekt Plastiktüte (Everydaylife Object Plastic Bag) (2011 Springer Wien New York) and The Artist is Resident (2013 The Torri Verlag).
With her concept of Synaesthesia – a term she coined to describe living with entangled senses, the interconnected perception of different sensory modalities – Corell creates artworks that dissolve disciplines and open new spaces for interaction and reflection.
Elie Halonen (they/them), based in Helsinki, Finland, works with mediums such as performance, moving image, and visual arts. They have a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Turku University of Applied Sciences (2019). Halonen is also a sex counsellor and has studied rope bondage with several international educators.
Halonen’s background in shibari and sculpture studies merge to create an interdisciplinary, bodywork-based practice, where the body becomes the sculptural material. For them, rope bondage provides a space for unknowing and the exploration of intimacies. Throughout Halonen’s body of work, they focus on creating ruptures in dominant social norms and queering our cultural relations to nature, intimacy, kink, and the body.
Photo: Eva-Liisa Orupõld
Satu Hakamäki (they/them), based in Turku, Finland, is a freelance artist in the field of performing arts. They work mainly as a performer, often mixing contemporary dance/circus and physical theatre. Their educational background is in the performing arts, communication & interaction studies, and yoga. In making art, Hakamäki is interested in the relationship of humans with nature, power dynamics, and the creation of utopias. They also like to bring performance art to public places or other non-traditional performance spaces, to gently shake people’s everyday routines and offer the possibility for changing one’s way of being, feeling, or interacting.
Photo: Frans Rinne
Pia Palme (she/her), based in Vienna, Austria, is a composer, activist, and author in the field of contemporary and experimental music. At home in artistic as well as academic contexts, she is interested in ecology, feminism, posthuman thinking, and exploring speculative futures. As a performer, Palme plays bass recorders and combines instrumental music with spoken voice and electronics. Her works and texts intra-act with the environment to invite a more-than-human way of listening. Currently, her focus is on developing the creative process across multiple species.
Photo: Maria Frodl