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AFRICA MARU - ongoing research
AFRICA MARU is a new interdisciplinary performance emerging from my investigation into the migratory body and fluid identity.The work takes its name from the immigration ship my father took from Japan to Brazil in 1933. The ship becomes a spatial and conceptual structure through which departure, arrival, instability, transmission and the search for ground can be experienced.Movement, voice, sound and image come together through an embodied investigation of migration, labour, memory and cultural transformation.
KUKOTAR premiere 8.8.2026
Kiisuhalli, Outokumpu
Kukotar is a solo concert-performance that summons Kukotar, a queer rooster goddess who moves between the sacred and the profane. Through voice, movement and live music, they invite the audience into a world where an emotional tender play becomes ritual.
Performance and music: Kaisa Kukkonen
Direction: Lindon Shimizu
Choreography: Kaisa Kukkonen & Lindon Shimizu
Production: Mu&Ma & The School of Touch
Support: Old Mines Residency
Performance project 14.7-3.8.2025
Lab-demo performance 1.8.2025
Kiisu hall, Old Mine Outokumpu
GRASP” is a celebration of diverse and plural bodies, creating a massive flesh poetry human organism. It is a substantial collective experience to support the community to find a way to survive the tough times we are living in socially, politically, and culturally. Drawing inspiration from the Brazilian “Antropofagia” movement, “GRASP” embraces the idea of cultural cannibalism—absorbing, digesting, and transforming diverse influences into a new, collective body of work.
East-West connection 324.42.
Asema 44, Pori
Welcome to create an artpiece in the Vibrating Stage at Asema44. You can experiment with installation, video, dance, theatre, performance art, and, if you wish, prepare a performance/demo/event. You can apply for any timeslot between 1.8.-30.9.2025. The stage is free of charge, and applications are open to both professionals and amateurs.
Call ends on 22.6.
Send your proposals or ask for more information at vanhalinjaautoasema@gmail.com
The activity has been supported by SKR’s Satakunta Fund and the City of Pori
Punainen serenaadi
Punainen serenaadi 15.6.2025
Ilosaarirock, Joensuu
On Friday, July 18th, Ilosaarirock will be taken over by Punainen Serenadi, where the Turtle Queen, Näkki and Bouffon will meet on stage for the first time. A unique burst of carnivalesque and surprising performing art is promised. Behind the characters are Pokka members Lindon Shimizu, Veera Snellman and Kaisa Mari Männikkö