The Steaming Earth

Annette Kristina Arlander

doi:10.36025/arj.v3i1.8432

Authors

Annette Kristina Arlander Professor of Artistic Research Performing Arts Research Centre Theatre Academy University of the Arts Helsinki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v3i1.8432

Keywords:

Performing landscape, Art technology, Environment, Expanded field, Earthlings

Abstract

The text presents the method developed by the author, called performing landscape, and discusses it in the context of the expanded field in performing arts. If we consider ourselves as earthlings, citizens of the planet earth, the question of meaningful performance practices can be approached inclusively. As citizens we are in relation to a city or society, as a site, too; as earthlings we are related to all beings living here, and to the earth. The essay takes as a starting point Elisabeth Grosz’s study Chaos, Territory, Art (2008), in which she develops new ways of addressing and thinking about the arts and the forces they enact and transform. She suggests that arts frame or compose chaos so that sensation can proliferate; they transform materials of the past into resources of the future.

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Author Biography

Annette Kristina Arlander, Professor of Artistic Research Performing Arts Research Centre Theatre Academy University of the Arts Helsinki

Born 1956 in Helsinki, where she lives and works. Artist, researcher and a pedagogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art and a trailblazer of artistic research. Graduated from the department of directing at the Theatre Academy 1981, Doctor of Arts (Theatre and Drama) 1999. Professor of Performance Art and Theory at Theatre Academy 2001-2013. Professor of artistic research 2015. From the year 2000 she has worked mainly in the context of contemporary art.

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Vídeos

Furnas 1-3 - http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/furnas-1-3_en/

Vulcano 1-3 - http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/vulcano-1-3_en/

Krysuvik 1-5 - http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/krysuvik-1-5_en/

Sounding Furnas 1 - https://vimeo.com/24557604

Sounding Krysuvik 2 - https://vimeo.com/27965373