Resisting Extinction
Reality Research Center and University of the Arts Helsinki present Resisting Extinction, Mustavuori forest, Helsinki Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged Earth.
Resisting Extinction invites us to look around and notice what we are losing. Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis. We must hone our skills, to be receptive, to improvise, to play, to experiment, to grieve, to metabolize, to be together in the unknown and trust we have resources in our bodies to negotiate, survive, and thrive.
We invite you into the forest for a weather walk, a search through deep time for disappearing beings, and a dying and decomposing practice to prepare for potential climate realities.
The work is an artistic part of Olive Bieringa’s artistic research at Performing Arts Centre Tutke at the Theatre Academy of the Uniarts Helsinki.
Friday October 10 at 16.00 (rain date Saturday October 11 at 11.00)
Saturday October 11 at 16.00 (rain date Sunday October 12 at 11.00)
Sunday October 12 at 16.00 (no rain date)
Working group
- Concept and text: Olive Bieringa
- Direction & choreography: Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad
- Costume design: Kristine Gjems
- Performers: Anu Laiho, Georgie Goater, Mari Pitkänen, Pia Lindy, Otto Ramstad, Olive Bieringa, Sara Le Mela and Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas
- Special thanks to Mari Pitkänen
Made possible with support from The Fund for Performing Artists, Norway, City of Helsinki Culture Fund, Nordic-Baltic Program for Culture and University of the Arts Helsinki.
Performance duration 2.5-3 hours.
Accessibility
As part of the performance, you will travel through the forest on roads and trails for approximately 2-3 km. More details to follow.
Resisting Extinction artist talk with Olive Bieringa and collaborators
- Presented by Reality Research Center & Uniarts Helsinki
- 17.30-19.00
- Kookos 535
- Everyone welcome
An artist talk with Olive Bieringa and collaborators including and Otto Ramstad about the ecosomatic research, process and dissemination of Resisting Extinction, the first examined artistic work of their doctoral research at TEAK. Resisting Extinction was developed in Norway and has been touring internationally. It is now being presented by Reality Research Center and University of the Arts Helsinki in Mustavuori forest, Helsinki October 10-12.
Olive Bieringa works at the intersection of creative practice and pedagogy in dance, performance, somatics and media. She was born in Aotearoa and is based in Oslo. She holds a BA in Dance from European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands and an MFA in Performance and New Media at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. She is a doctoral candidate at Uniarts, Helsinki. She is Certified Movement Therapist (ISMETA), Infant Developmental Movement Educator® and Body-Mind Centering® Teacher and Program Director of Somatic Education Australasia. Together with Otto Ramstad she codirects the BodyCartography Project since 1998.
Resisting Extinction invites us to look around and notice what we are losing. Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis. We must hone our skills, to be receptive, to improvise, to play, to experiment, to grieve, to metabolize, to be together in the unknown and trust we have resources in our bodies to negotiate, survive, and thrive.
We invite you into the forest for a weather walk, a search through deep time for disappearing beings, and a dying and decomposing practice to prepare for potential climate realities.
The work is an artistic part of Olive Bieringa’s artistic research at Performing Arts Centre Tutke at the Theatre Academy of the Uniarts Helsinki.
Friday October 10 at 16.00 (rain date Saturday October 11 at 11.00)
Saturday October 11 at 16.00 (rain date Sunday October 12 at 11.00)
Sunday October 12 at 16.00 (no rain date)
Working group
- Concept and text: Olive Bieringa
- Direction & choreography: Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad
- Costume design: Kristine Gjems
- Performers: Anu Laiho, Georgie Goater, Mari Pitkänen, Pia Lindy, Otto Ramstad, Olive Bieringa, Sara Le Mela and Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas
- Special thanks to Mari Pitkänen
Made possible with support from The Fund for Performing Artists, Norway, City of Helsinki Culture Fund, Nordic-Baltic Program for Culture and University of the Arts Helsinki.
Performance duration 2.5-3 hours.
Accessibility
As part of the performance, you will travel through the forest on roads and trails for approximately 2-3 km. More details to follow.
Resisting Extinction artist talk with Olive Bieringa and collaborators
- Presented by Reality Research Center & Uniarts Helsinki
- 17.30-19.00
- Kookos 535
- Everyone welcome
An artist talk with Olive Bieringa and collaborators including and Otto Ramstad about the ecosomatic research, process and dissemination of Resisting Extinction, the first examined artistic work of their doctoral research at TEAK. Resisting Extinction was developed in Norway and has been touring internationally. It is now being presented by Reality Research Center and University of the Arts Helsinki in Mustavuori forest, Helsinki October 10-12.
Olive Bieringa works at the intersection of creative practice and pedagogy in dance, performance, somatics and media. She was born in Aotearoa and is based in Oslo. She holds a BA in Dance from European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands and an MFA in Performance and New Media at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. She is a doctoral candidate at Uniarts, Helsinki. She is Certified Movement Therapist (ISMETA), Infant Developmental Movement Educator® and Body-Mind Centering® Teacher and Program Director of Somatic Education Australasia. Together with Otto Ramstad she codirects the BodyCartography Project since 1998.