How does slowing down sound like?
Rest as a … is a site-specific installation-like performance event. The gathering is an open invitation to examine the meaning of collective rest. It creates a space where idleness, wasteful use of time, and the intrinsic value of rest are brought to the forefront. The installation highlights the meaning and specialness of doing everyday things together and the healing power hidden in them.
Choreographic Convention parcours 3, 4
Esete Sutinen is a Finnish-Ethiopian dance and performance artist based in Helsinki and Addis Abeba. Sutinen has worked as a freelance dance artist nearly 25 years in the Finnish art field. She works extensively as a dancer and performer in various intersections of dance, theater, performance, installation, opera, and performance art. She graduated with a master’s degree in dance from the University of the Arts Helsinki. In her choreographic work Esete is fascinated by the articulation of corporeality, the different aspects of freedom and rest, and the power of fragility and empathy.
Zipora Ogola is a Finnish-Tanzanian kantele artist and composer who works musically across genre boundaries. Their work is driven by a curiosity towards the kantele’s sonic and cultural versatility, its potential for mobility and collision within various artistic contexts.
Concept, convener: Esete Sutinen
Performers: Zipora Ogola, Esete Sutinen (Biret haarla Pieski, Gáddjá Haarla Pieski 2023 Kutomo)
Composition, sound design: Zipora Ogola
Video editing: Rabbe Sandström, Camille Auer, Zipora Ogola
Artistic dialogue: Kid Kokko, Anna Torkkel
Supporting lecture-workshops for working group: Terhi Vaimala
Supporting TRE-workshop for working group: Maija Kaunismaa
Production: Ehkä-production, Esete Sutinen
Production support: Arts Management Helsinki
Supporters: Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Kone Foundation
In cooperation: Alpo Aaltokoski Company (AAC)
Residencies: Ohcejohka, the Finnish side of Sápmi; Nice, France; Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku
Duration: 1h 30min
Rest as a… has been shown previously in Uni2 event in and around the premises of the University of Turku and at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo as part of XS – Festival for New Dance and Performance in 2023, and at Love Harvest festival in 2024.