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Event Series Event Series: Enter Exude: Teo Ala-Ruona

Enter Exude: Teo Ala-Ruona

March 15 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Wheelchair Accessible Accessible toilet Assistance Animals are Welcome Relaxed Performance
Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk

IPAF presents: Enter Exude by Teo Ala-Ruona

Enter Exude is a cinematic auto-fantasy for three performers and a Chevrolet Camaro. 

Born from the anal canal of an automobile, the three techno-brothers derive pleasure from inhaling the spirit of the car – both a symbol of familial and trans narratives. Enter Exude takes the audience on an ominously erotic ride, unfolding on various time scales, blurring the boundaries between life and slow death. 

Enter Exude delves into contemporary notions of gender, technology, and ecology while crafting simultaneously a hypnotic and haunting experience of unfulfilled desires. The performance is simultaneously exaggerative and intimate, breaking the boundaries of the stage and creating a continuous interplay between reality and the imagined.

Enter Exude continues Ala-Ruona’s series of performances exploring the intertwining of environmental toxicities and trans-corporeality, with bodily transformations and complex sexuality forming an intense, mutually accelerating cycle.


Notes for audience
Enter Exude includes talk about sex and death. The performance also includes close proximity audience contact, from which audience members can opt out if they wish. The performance includes loud sounds and blinking lights.Earplugs are provided at the entrance door for those who wish to use them.

Language: English

Access: Warehouse9 is Wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets are accessed via stairlift. Accessible parking is available on site.

Post-show: on the 16th March there will be a post-show celebration. We hope you will join us.


Working group & credits
Summoning, concept and directing: Teo Ala-Ruona
Choreography:Raoni Muzho Saleh, Charlie Laban Trier and Teo Ala-Ruona
Performers: Raoni Muzho Saleh, Charlie Laban Trier and Teo Ala-Ruona
Dramaturg: Even Minn
Set and costume design: Teo Paaer
Sound dramaturg: Kaino Wennerstrand
Sound design: Miša Skalskis
Lighting design: Heikki Paasonen
Producer: Sanna Ritvanen
Pre-production: Jonni Korhonen
Artistic dialogue: Remi Vesala

Production: Kiasma-teatteri, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, Viernulvier, Warehouse9
Supported by: Niilo Helander Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre, Wihuri Foundation, Oskar Öflund Foundation, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Finnish Cultural Institute of Denmark
Residencies: FABRIKKEN, Zodiak-laboratory, BUDA

 

 

Read the text ‘Car and I’ that frames the themes of the Enter Exude:

“”This text, too, arises from the car. I see it in my mind as a knot of interchanges composed of highway ramps, an accelerating landscape with multiple directions and lanes. I stand in the midst of that landscape, amidst the noise of highways, and I write.””

Written by: Teo Ala Ruona and Remi Vesala

PDF Download: Teo Ala Ruona and Remi Vesala

 

About the artists:
Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki-based performance artist, whose works delve into somatospeculative fiction, exploring themes such as techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, ecology, and toxicity. He employs a blend of theoretical discourse, autobiographical text, and psychophysical performance scores to redefine language and narratives that address pleasure and intimacy in the context of a toxic Earth.

He approaches trans corporeality as an arena, where various normative processes of naturalization become infeasible, and address queer ecological topics from explicitly sexual perspective to revoke the heteronormative biases that influence the research done on biology and ecology, gender and sexuality.

Through the use of the performing body as a canvas for speculative storytelling, he experiments how fiction can transform the ways bodies are understood. Ala-Ruona is committed to the transgressive potential of performance art to push the boundaries of our perception of normality and conventionality.

Ala-Ruona’s work has recently been shown in Performa Biennial (New York), The Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art (Vilnius), The Finnish National Gallery Kiasma (Helsinki), The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (London), Sequences festival (Reykjavik) and Centrale Fies (Dro) among others.

https://teoalaruona.net/ 

 

Enter Exude is co-presented with the The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark

Enter Exude is part of IPAF: an international festival for contemporary performance presenting artists from different cultural contexts, whose work engages identity politics, sexual expressions, and body representations, facilitated by Warehouse9.

 

Venue

Warehouse9
Rosenlunds Allé 5, Baghuset
Copenhagen, 2720 Denmark
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Jasmin Ingemansen

Communications manager

Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9. 

Emma Castro Møller

Co-Director

Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.

In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Jørgen Callesen

Co-Director

Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and co-director of  Warehouse9.

For the past 17 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.

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