In the context of Choreographic Convention, Suvi Kemppainen celebrates the mundane and otherworldly realities of choreographic labor in studio: a study of practicing. During a 45-minute performative setting, Kemppainen will encounter existing choreographic modalities within their own work, including textual, sonic, and corporeal materials. The structure consists of shorter loops of material that they will repeat. Through the form of the loop, they look at repetition not as a return to the same, but as a disturbance of the same. Each time the loop turns, the form is repeated, but the conditions have changed: the relationships (architectural, spatial, sonic, and textual) have changed, the space has changed, time has passed and Kemppainen’s own position within the choreography has shifted. Repetition becomes not only a method of preservation or reproduction, but also a practice of refusal: a refusal of the demand for sameness, and a way of opening, allowing something to remain while simultaneously allowing it to transform and open to worldly and otherworldly dimensions. Here, the study of practicing becomes a repertoire: a collection that can be revisited, disturbed, refused, and reconfigured.
Choreographic Convention parcours 5, 6, 7
Choreography, concept, text, performance: Suvi Kemppainen
Suvi Kemppainen is an internationally working multidisciplinary dance artist, choreographer and performer based in Helsinki. Their practice is anchored in embodied knowledge, immaterial ownership, fantastic psychopoetic corporeality, queer-feminist thought and worldly and otherworldly spatial-sonic embodiment. After graduating as a dancer from North Karelia College Outokumpu in Finland Suvi continued their studies at the HZT University of Arts Berlin. Kemppainen’s latest works have been presented at the Ateneum Art Museum, Zodiak Center for New Dance, Asbestos Art Space, The Finnish National Theatre, Viirus Theatre in Helsinki Finland, Contemporary Art Space Kutomo in Turku Finland, Sophiensaele, Ballhaus Ost in Berlin Germany. Alongside their performance works, Suvi Kemppainen teaches and facilitates workshops for professional artists, dance makers and students. Kemppainen works with a wide network of international artists engaging in collaborative projects, critical dialogue, and research-driven artistic processes.
www.suvikemppainen.com