Apurahat ja residenssipaikat

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Miehen ja naisen kohtaamista käsittelevän, pitkäaikaisen dokumentatiivisen tutkimustyön syventäminen ja jatkaminen

I’m applying a two-year working grant to continue and deepen my long-term documentative research into the relations between men and women. My main focus and goals are crossover and transdisciplinary approach, search for new forms and awareness of political and social conflicts and topics, and placing my work on the international scope. Moving from cinematic performance to performative reality, I want to be an original voice in approaching, staging and sharing intimacy. I intend to create two works. I’m interested in how to blend the real and the artificial. I feel like I have an aptitude for exemplifying the absurd in conventional, real-life situations. While before my work was more about authenticity and exploring genuine interactions reality, I now want to amplify or exaggerate the male/female dynamic by setting ups scenes with the strangers I meet. My first project is about weddings, the performativity of them, and how they traditionally, are rather absurd social rituals. I will go on a hunt for a husband around the world. My second project is about death and suicide. How would we like to die? I will explore the demonstration of death, and how it might have some therapeutic value in and of itself.

I'm reporting the result of a two-year working grant. As mentioned in my "väliraportti" before and during my first grant year, my plans changed quite a bit as Covid came along and I started transitioning. Two huge life changes which of course had an impact on my original plan. Regardless I succeeded better than I would have ever expected. During these two years, I managed to create a monumental 4h work that got its world premiere at IDFA, which is the world's biggest documentary film festival, as well it played at Venice Biennale, Europe's most notable art event where I was also awarded with a silver lion, which is major recognition to an artist of my age.

I also used some of the time to create a new work that was presented at Nuoret23, where it was named by many viewers as a favorite. I made a publication in a big international art magazine King Kong. And I got to start a third work as well, which still needs some time to be finished.

I've gotten to tour a lot and not only that, as a result of these new works I got to find a producing base and a distributor for my current and future works, which gives me a more stable future.

So all in all very ambitious, eventful, and successful period of two years. I see these new works as a very fitting but major progress step in the arch of my artistic career.

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