ÖH
Photo: Katri Naukkarinen
ÖH unfolds as a multisensorial installation created from ordinary objects, large wooden structure, handmade rugs and textiles. The work binds together a sensorial logic as a choreographic proposition. Here subjects and objects are multiples, intertwining between different meanings and associations. A site, where colours narrate and textures dialogue. Sensuality, hybrids and the uncanny create an artistic world of discovery and divergence.
ÖH, arranges and deconstructs ordinary landscape into the poetics of everyday. An idea of piling up instead of dividing creates a world where many colours of human and objecthood are possible and explored. The work attempts towards liberation from binaries and construction of polyphonic togetherness, where abrasion points, reverie, dissecting and care all play a well grounded part in an idea of creation, that cannot be separated from destruction.
Jokiniemi´s work focuses on possibilities of other than spoken language as integral knowledge formation practices. Hence drawings, symbols, signs, gestures and tactile materials play an essential part in her choreographic corpus. Text is as much objects, movements and sounds as it is words. In ÖH, a catalogue of drawn images think the subconscious of the work by sculpting the performers’ embodiment and weaving into textile.
The performance invites the audience into a web of interlacing meaning and contact, tripping into the associative.
“Once again Jokiniemi has created a piece that chafes at the norms with its naivistic movement language and deep, boundless sexuality.”
“It feels like play, like a demonstration, like an allegory and like images of our time.”
See also: Sonja Jokiniemi’s workshop Weaving textures and feelings on 23.11.2020 in Kunsthalle Helsinki
Performance & collaboration: Sonja Jokiniemi, Leila Kourkia, Marlon Moilanen, Herman Nyby, Maria Saivosalmi, Tuuli Vahtola Choreography and concept: Sonja JokiniemiVisual design: Heikki Paasonen and Sonja JokiniemiSound design: Gil SchneiderRya rugs implementation: Aino Ojala, based on drawings by Sonja JokiniemiProducer: Riikka Thitz Co-production: Zodiak (Helsinki, FI), Moving in November festival (Helsinki, FI), STUK – A House for Dance, Image and Sound (Leuven, BE) in the framework of the Life Long Burning – Towards a sustainable Eco-System for Contemporary Dance in Europe project (2018-2022) supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.Residencies: Mad House Helsinki (FI) Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, TelepART Mobility SupportPremiere on 10.11.2020 in Zodiak - Center for New Dance / Moving in November festival (FI) Photos: Katri Naukkarinen