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Live Art and Performance Studies at Uniarts Helsinki

Learn about activities, events and latest publications from our programme’s staff, students, alumni and friends.

Photo from LAPS programme's 20th anniversary exhibition in 2021. Photographer: Antti Ahonen

Introduction

The Live Art and Performance Studies master’s programme has developed a wide network with local and international collaborators in the fields of performance art, research and contemporary art. This network is present in the courses, excursions, seminars, mentoring and projects done in collaboration with artists, researchers and experts of these fields. Our ethos is founded on respect of diversity and equity. We aim to provide a space for an engaged community.

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Contact information

About programme content
Tero Nauha
tero.nauha@uniarts.fi

About admissions
teak.admissions@uniarts.fi

Teachers and staff

Visiting teachers at the LAPS programme

Students and recent alumni

LAPS invites artists from diverse cultural, social, economic, and educational backgrounds to investigate and propagate emergent narratives in arts. Read more about the various art and research practices of LAPS students and alumni.

Research and publications

The programme provides research driven context for artists to define live art and contemporary performance through individual and collective practice. The emphasis of the programme is on practice driven theoretical inquiry.

  • Activating dissonance

    The Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) master’s twenty-year anniversary publication. The book analyses and contextualizes the MA programme that is one the first ones in Europe focusing in performance art, live art and performance studies. The book includes essays from Anna Jensen, Christine Langinauer, Nora Rinne, Harriet Rabe von Froreich and Tero Nauha. Antti Ahonen’s photographs depict the twenty years of performance in Finland.

  • Performanssifilosofiaa

    The first publication in Finnish from the new field of performance philosophy. The book includes articles by Matthew Goulish, John Ó Maoilearca, François Laruelle, Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Esa Kirkkopelto, Karen Barad, Hamid Dabashi and Walter Mignolo. The book is edited and translated by Tero Nauha, Annette Arlander, Hanna Järvinen and Pilvi Porkola.

  • LAPS grad­u­ates re­ceive Kone Foun­da­tion working grants

    LAPS gratulates Stefanía Olafsdottír and Onur Tayranoğlu who received grants from Kone Foundation to develop and continue their artistic practices.

  • How to Do Things with Performance?

    The postdoctoral research project funded by the Academy of Finland, ‘How to do things with performance?’, years 2016-2020. The project seeked to update the theory of performativity vis à vis new materialist theories of agential realism and non-philosophy. With Annette Arlander as PI, Hanna Järvinen, Pilvi Porkola and Tero Nauha as researchers in this project, it brought together four views on artistic research in performance, and took part in recent discussions in artistic research, performance philosophy, and performance studies in Finland.

Curriculum and master’s thesis projects

When performance blog

Students and staff of the Live Art and Performance Studies MA programme write about their work at LAPS.

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Past projects and events