NU Performance Festival 2016:
CORPORATE OCCULT_lets talk about the body baby
29.10 – 5.11.2016
Kanuti Gildi SAAL and Punane Maja
Curator: Maria Arusoo
Artists: Peaches, Dana Michel, Samira Elagoz, Maria Metsalu, Black Cracker, Maria Minerva, Kolbeinn Hugi, Vanessa Place, Kris Lemsalu, Helena Keskküla, Emer Värk & Renzo van Steenbergen, Huoraton /Last Gang Records, Ivo Dimchev etc.
NU Performance Festival 2016 brings together international and experimental performers and audiences for a full week of performances, screenings, lectures, parties and installations.
The interests of this festival lie in the body, focusing on gender, sexuality and bodies as both a political tools and catalysts. Performances will handle themes including love, loss, violence, intimacy, as well as issues relating to gender performativity and the mapping of cultural norms onto the body. Some performers will become archeologists of their own personas in public, working with the tensions that could arise in a space of intimate witness.
Maria Arusoo: “I am truly excited that NU Perfromance Festival 2016 will bring togehter amazing group of artists to create the hub for discussion and inspiration, in which ideas can be approached openly and with guts. The aim of NU Performance Festival is to create an intense, occasionally absurd, fun, critical and experimental platform, where important political issues and incredibly personal subjects can be touched upon together.”
The body is coming back, baby.
Festival program: www.saal.ee/nuperformancefestival
Producer: Uue Performantsi Selts
Co-producer: Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Visual identity: Kris Lemsalu “Aldonza Lorenzo” (2013)
Festival’s initiators: Anders Härm, Priit Raud
