Minna Henriksson & Tero Nauha: Sivuhenkilöitä 27.9.–20.10.2019 MAA-tilassa
Minna Henriksson & Tero Nauha: Minor Characters
27.9-20.10.2019
MAA-tila, Pääskylänrinne 10, 00500 Helsinki
Wed-Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat-Sun 13:00-17:00
Opening on Thursday 26.9 at 18:00-20:00
Discussion on the exhibition thematics on Friday 4.10 at 18:00
In a shared exhibition Minna Henriksson and Tero Nauha present their working processes, which deal with the conditions for production and practices of marginalisation.
Minna Henriksson’s work ‘Kiila Feminist Archive’ is an attempt to compile artists’ group Kiila’s lost archive through readings of works by its early female members. The archives of Kiila from its founding in 1936 until 1944 have gone missing. The history of Kiila has been written after WW2 from a male perspective, although majority of Kiila’s founders were women.
The work ‘Détroit Oceanique’ by Tero Nauha is based on a collaborative project with Karolina Kucia and the immigrant workers in Andalucía. This work opens up the on-going process. It uses the textual and visual materials through the methods of ‘fictioning’. Here, fictioning is not understood as uses of narrative means, but how the artistic process may condition the possibility for futures.
Minna Henriksson was born in 1976 in Oulu, Finland. She has studied art in Brighton, Helsinki and Malmö, and since then lived long periods in South East Europe. In 2009 she returned to Helsinki and was faced with urgency to respond to increased nationalism and racism. In 2017 she was awarded with the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award of artistic work committed to the ideal of democracy and antifascism.
Tero Nauha is a performance artist, the professor in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Finland funded postdoctoral research project ‘How To Do Things With Performance?’. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2017. He defended his doctoral research at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts in Helsinki in January 2016. He is the member of Performance Philosophy, Performance Studies International and the International Federation for Theatre Research. In 2015, he published his first fiction novel Heresy & Provocation for a Swedish publishing house Förlaget. His performance art projects have been presented at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Theatrediscounter in Berlin, CSW Kronika in Bytom, Poland, Performance Matters in London, and at the New Performance Festival in Turku, among other venues.
