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Enter Exude: Teo Ala-Ruona
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.
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.
