Programme


CARPA8 includes three different orientations: Transitions and transgressions, Thresholds and frictions, and Algorithmization and automated movement.

Day 1, Colloquium:
Presentations exploring the three main areas of investigations (indoors).

Day 2, Laboratory:
Presentations exploring the three main areas of investigations (indoors).
Researching shared questions in Working Groups through walk and movement practices* (indoors and outdoors).

*We understand movement to be both physical and mental. The practices we share will be developed in ways that are accessible to all.

Day 3, Commons:
Conversations bringing together findings from the three strands and sharing reflections (indoors). The lengths of the presentations are from 30 minutes to 90 minutes.

QUIET/SLOW-MO SPACE
Throughout the conference days, there is our Commons located in Auditorium 2 at TeaK Tori that is a space to slow down or even take moments of stillness and rest when need. We encourage you to be at a different tempo in this space and allow information (cognitive, abstract, kinaesthetic) and questions (theoretical, artistic) you are receiving to find their own motion and forms of expression.

POP-UP VR WORK TRY OUT
There will be an opportunity to try out the VR work presented by Tomi Humalisto, Nanni Vapaavuori and Meri Ekola at a pop-up point at Tori in the entrance hall of the Theatre Academy on Thursday 24th during the pause at 11:30–12:00 as well as Friday 25th at 9:00-9:45 and during the pause at 11:30–12:00.
 

WEDNESDAY 23 August 2023

CHECK-IN
 

10:00–16:00
Check-In and Information Desk is open
Theatre Academy, entrance hall (Tori), Haapaniemenkatu 6 (Sörnäinen Campus) Helsinki
 

THURSDAY 24 August 2023

COLLOQUIUM

8:00–19:00
Check-In and Information Desk open at Tori

8:00-9:30
Coffee and snacks
 

T.9:00–9:45
Opening of the conference by the conference committee
TeaK Tori and Stage
 

CONFERENCE PARALLER STRANDS AND SESSIONS 1–13

10:00–11:30

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 1: Theatre Hall
Moderator Hanna Järvinen

Kaleidoscopic dramaturgies: building fluidity for decolonial artistic research
Maria Jose Contreras (30 min)

Performance Différée: Renewing the Temporalities of Artistic Action
Léa Martin (30 min)

Microdramaturgy: researching artistic practices from a co-creative position in search of evental utopias
Jonas Schnor (30 min)


10:00–10:45

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 2: Auditorium 1
Moderator Imanuel Schipper

The curatorial and financial narratives disrupting art
Tero Nauha (45 min)


10:00–11:30

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 3: Studio 4
Moderator Hanna Pajala-Assefa

Scores as social spaces: Dramaturgies of scores in multimodal music performance
Hild Borchgrevink (30 min)

Moving in Ensembles
Klaus Maunuksela (30 min)

Framed by a Robot - filming with robotic cinematographic device
Karolina Kucia (30 min)


11:30–12:00 Pause
During the pause:  Pop-up  VR work try out at Tori
 

12:00–13:00

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 4: Theatre Hall
Moderatorn Qiong Zhang

Feel free to take a nap
Petros Konnaris, Mirko Guido, Rodia Vomvolou and Evagoras Vanezis (60 min)

 

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 5: Studio 4
Moderator Tuomas Laitinen

Listening to Listening as Dramaturgical Approach and Parallel Play Project
Katariina Numminen and Maarit Rankanen (60 min)


12:00–13:00

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 6: Auditorium 1
Moderator Imanuel Schipper

Digital Intervention Into Dramaturgical Thoughts
Bilge Serdar Göksülük (30 min.)

Happy is the image that moves
Harri Laakso (30 min)

13:00–14.30 Lunch at TeaK Tori


14:30–16:00

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 7: Studio 4
Moderator Hanna Järvinen

Moving with Ghosts
Lois Brown and Thea Patterson (45 min.)

Intermedial Dramaturgies: Staging Play, Modes of Liveness, and Social Engagement
Bertie Ferdman, Peter Eckersall and Erika Latta (45 min.)


14:30–16:00

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 8: Room 525

Moderator Tuomas Laitinen

Performing interconnections: dramaturgies of response in artistic research
Maija Hirvanen and Alice Chauchat, Siegmar Zacharias, Ilse van Rijn and Sabine Zahn (60 min)

Skinspace: Agency and friction of spatial dramaturgy
Elena Peytchinska (30 min.)


14:30–16:00

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 9: Theatre Hall
Moderator Hanna Pajala-Assefa

A somatic REACh. (research in expanding awareness through algorithmic choreography)
Klaas Freek Devos (45 min.)

REHEARSING WITH NON-HUMANS, Performance Installation as a Research Tool
Irena Kukric (45 min.)

16:00-16:15 Pause


16:15–17:15

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 10: Studio 4
Moderator Imanuel Schipper

body/word Performance Writing as a communal dramaturgical practice for artistic research promoting a collectively more desirable being.
Christos Polymenakos (60 min.)


16:15–17:15

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 11: Theatre Hall
Moderator Karolina Kucia

Cloudings: Spooky action at a distance
Lee Miller and Joanne "Bob" Whalley (60 min.)


16:15–17:45

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 12: Auditorium 1/Outdoors
Moderator Anne-Marie Parkatti

The Dripping Web
Alex Viteri Arturo and Cory Tamler (90 min.)

17:45-18:00 Pause


18:00–19:00

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 13: Theatre Hall
Moderator Leena Rouhiainen

Corporeal Dramaturgy as a Medium of Artistic Research
Esa Kirkkopelto, Pauliina Hulkko, Marketta Tikkanen, Sofia Smeds and Mikko Kauppila (60 min)


FRIDAY 25 August 2023

LABORATORY: SOLVITUR AMBULANDO
 

9:00–14:00
Information Desk open at TeaK Tori

9:00-9:45
Pop-up  VR work try out at Tori
 

CONFERENCE PARALLER STRANDS AND SESSIONS 14–22
 

9:30–11:30

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 14: Studio 4
Moderator Riina Hannuksela

Comparative Dramaturgy and/as performance research
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Sophie Osburg, Mads Thygesen, Katalin Trencsényi and Karel Vanhaesebrouck (60 min)

Dramaturgy of Practice: a slow togethering
Miranda Laurence and Sara Živkovič Kranjc (60 min)


9:45–11:00

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 15: Room 525
Moderator Karolina Kucia

On Coalitional Research
Duška Radosavljević  (30 min)

A purple, pink, rose, fluffy octopus: The adventures of a dramaturg-researcher
Rodia Vomvolou (45 min)


10:00–11:30

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 16: Theatre Hall
Moderator Qiong Zhang

Does Pasolini perceive fireflies in the balcony of the universe?
Tomi Humalisto, Meri Ekola and Nanni Vapaavuori (60 min)

Interdisciplinary Research in European Extended Reality Labs
Adnan Hadzi (30 min)

11:30-12:00 Pause
During the pause:  Pop-up  VR work try out at Tori


12:00–13:00
Sessions 17–19

Introduction to the Setting things in motion sessions:
The Laboratory part of CARPA8 begins with this workshop. Presenters and participants from each of the three strands, Transitions and transgressions; Thresholds and frictions, and Algorithmization and automated movement, will come together as Working Groups with the Hosts of each strand to share questions found and generated during the first day of the colloquium, to match ideas with ‘experimenters’, and to prepare people to work on them in pairs (or small groups) outdoors in the afternoon . Come with a curious mind and ideas – and you’ll leave with a special quest (tailor-made to your aims and abilities) and a small team to explore with outdoors in the afternoon.
 

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 17: Theatre Hall (60 min)

Setting things in motion: a preparatory session with Jess Applebaum and Leena Rouhiainen


12:00–13:00

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 18: Studio 4 (60 min)

Setting things in motion: a preparatory session with Katalin Trencsényi


12:00–13:00

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 19: Room 525 (60 min)

Setting things in motion: a preparatory session with Otso Huopaniemi

13:00–14:00 Lunch at TeaK Tori

14:00–18:00
Sessions 20-22: Outdoors

Introduction to the Walking sessions:
Solvitur ambulando (solved by moving) – how does walking contribute to emerging ideas about dramaturgies of artistic research? We’ll find out in action. Put on your (real or virtual) walking shoes (bring your sunglasses, raincoat, drinking water and a light snack), and explore your questions generated during the morning workshop and Helsinki the way you haven’t explored before!  
•    Before you leave, please, don’t forget to check-out at the Information Desk.
•    To help the walk, you’ll find a quest sheet and recommended routes on our website: CARPA8
This online map can also help your orientation: Google Maps
•    Please, document this solvitur ambulando work in any way that reflects the nature of your team’s explorations.
•    When you are back, please check-in at the Information Desk, so that we know that your team has returned safely.


Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 20: Outdoors

Solvitur ambulando
Walk in groups outdoors


14:00–18:00 

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 21: Outdoors

Solvitur ambulando
Walk in groups outdoors


14:00–18:00 

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 22: Outdoors

Solvitur ambulando
Walk in groups outdoors
 

Alternative programme instead of Sessions 20-22
16:00-18:00
Auditorium 1

Short film screenings: A selection of short films related to the conference topic will be presented, showcasing the work of local artists and researchers.

List of films:

Fera Matter
(Lydia Touliatou, recorded performance, 2023, 23 min. 25 sec.)

Language is the Key to Everything 
(Johanna Lecklin, 2012, HD video, two-channel installation, 12 min. 35 sec.)

Minority Law 
(Johanna Lecklin, 2012, 2 min. 58 sec.)

20211229 dance and film diary @ helsinki
(Christy Poinsettia Ma, 2021, 4 min. 43 sec.)

Broken Bike
(Christy Poinsettia Ma, 2021, 18 min.)
Trigger warning: This piece contains references to suicide, which may be disturbing or traumatising for some people.  

Day with a Bog Birch
(Annette Arlander, 2020, 20 min.)  

The Angle of Water 104.5 (excerpt)
(Toisissa Tiloissa/Other Spaces, 2022, 8-part video work)

PART 6: H2O
(Toisissa Tiloissa/Other Spaces, 10 min. 17 sec.)

Peili - elämäni kuusi kuvajaista / The Mirror - Six Reflections of My Life 
(Tomi Paijo, 2022, 17 min.)


19:00–21:30
COLLOQUIUM DINNER at TeaK Restaurant

 

SATURDAY 26 August

COMMONS
 

9:00–13:00
Information Desk open at TeaK Tori
 

CONFERENCE STRANDS AND SESSIONS 23-25

Introduction to the Commoning sessions:
These workshops, facilitated by the Host of the strand will bring together each Working Group (each strand) for sharing and discussing the findings of yesterday’s solvitur ambulando work. Bring along your previous day’s quest documentation and get ready to present your discoveries in any way that is suitable.

In the second half of the session, together with one of the Keynote Speakers we’ll discuss the findings and see in what way they move our thinking forward on the questions of our Working Group. These findings will also be taken to the Keynote Lectures later this afternoon, to be shared with the all the conference participants.


9:30–11:00

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 23: Studio 4

Facilitated by Jess Applebaum

Overview: Sharing and discussing the findings of the Walkabout with Marcela A Fuentes (90 min)

9:30–11:00

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 24: Room 532

Facilitated by Katalin Trencsényi

Overview: Sharing and discussing the findings of the Walkabout with Synne Behrndt (90 min)


9:30–11:00

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 25: Room 535

Facilitated by Otso Huopaniemi

Overview: Sharing and discussing the findings of the Walkabout with Hanns Holger Rutz (90 min)

11:00-11:30 Pause
 

11:30–12:30

Strand 1: Transitions and transgressions

Session 26: Theatre Hall

Plenary Session
It ends, but not before: Constellative dramaturgies at the end of the world
Keynote Marcela A. Fuentes (60 min.)

Moderator Jess Applebaum

12:30–13:30 Lunch at TeaK restaurant


13:30–14:30

Strand 3: Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 27: Theatre Hall

Plenary Session
Beyond self and other: Shifting research from automation to endomation
Keynote Hanns Holger Rutz (60 min.)

Moderator Otso Huopaniemi

14:30–15:00 Pause
 

15:00–16:00

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 28: Theatre Hall

Plenary Session
Dramaturgy, devising and artistic research
Keynote Synne Behrndt (60 min.)

Moderator Katalin Trencsényi

16:00–16:15 Pause

16:15–17:15
Session 29: Theatre Hall

Moderated by the Conference committee

Closing Session Presentation (60 min.)