Audience Body, by Tuomas Laitinen, is a performance without performers, like a book misplaced into the space and time of theatre.
There is a duality inhabiting theatres across Europe: the division between the audience and the makers of art. For art to appear, the artist has to enter the stage and do something. This doing attracts attention; thus an audience body is born. But how is this body formed and conditioned?
Audience Body is a performance without performers, like a book misplaced into the space and time of theatre. There is a codex. A scroll. A love letter. Place. Time. Immersion. Destruction. Order. Mess. Practice. Theory.
The work is an examined artistic part of Tuomas Laitinen's artistic doctorate at the Performing Arts Research Center Tutke, Uniarts Helsinki's Theatre Academy. It has been developed in a long series of public experiments since 2018. The performance is available both in English and in Finnish.
Script and direction: Tuomas Laitinen
In collaboration with:
Lighting designer Nanni Vapaavuori
Graphic designer Visa Knuuttila
Sound designer Carolina Jinde
Spatial designer Alexander Furunes Eriksson
Production: Reality Research Center
Production in collaboration with: Moving in November
With the support of: Zodiak – Center for New Dance
Supported by: Jenny ja Antti Wihuri Foundation, Kone Foundation's Saari Residence, Performing Arts Research Center Tutke, TTOR – Taiteellisen tutkimuksen ohjausryhmä, Uniarts Helsinki; Arts Promotion Center Finland, Helsinki City, Brother
PREMIERE
The performance is documented for research purposes with video and photography. If you attend the performance, you will be visible in the documentation, which can be used in research publications. Tuomas Laitinen is conducting his doctoral research project Audience appears in the Performing Arts Research Center Tutke, at Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. If you do not want to be seen in the documentation, please reserve a ticket to performance of the 12th or the 13th of November of Audience Body.
Tickets: 30/27/15 €
The performance is not included in Zodiak's season ticket.
Duration: 1,5–2 h. Audience can move freely in the space.
The performance is a part of Reality Research Center's and Moving in November Festival's programmes.
