Blab

PROJECT

Blab

‘Being lost in the world’ is a starting point of a research where objects and human bodies blur into each other, proposing another being. Blab is a performance work where Sonja Jokiniemi investigate a fragmented and chaotic experience of show-orientated reality. The proposition suggests immersion, synaesthesia and sensorial mutualism between inanimate things and human actors in order to create third beings and propose different forms of co-existence.

The logic of the work is situated in incoherence, dissociative and transcendent qualities. In the research Sonja attempts to create synthesis between the different materials at stake. The work is a continuation of her quest on inner logics and subjective experiences that unfold worlds in a broader sense; looking at languages escaping definitions, neuro and psychodiverse perception patterns and poetic dimensions of reality.

Sonja Jokiniemi

Sonja Jokiniemi is a performance artist and choreographer currently based in Helsinki, Finland. She makes transdisciplinary work with research interests in thing ecologies, language and thinking, neuro and psychodiversity. She is interested in subjective inner worlds that unfold patterns of larger sociopolitical structures. Her attention on stage is in deviant, disobedient and intimate practices. Her educational background is in contemporary dance, choreography and performance. She is also self-taught in drawing and has an early background in classical music. Her interest in language, harmony and rhythm stems from this basis.

Jokiniemi graduated from DAS Theatre (previously DasArts) MA Degree programme in Performing Arts in Amsterdam 2013. Prior to this she has completed BA degree on Contemporary Dance at Laban Centre in London 2006 and taken part at Daghdha Mentoring programme in Limerick, Ireland. Sonja Jokiniemi's work has been supported by STUK - House for Dance, Image & Sound, Zodiak - Centre for New Dance, Dampfzentrale Bern, Kiasma Theatre, Workspace Brussels, Eastern Finland Regional Dance Centre. Jokiniemi has been awarded a one-year artist grant by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) for 2017.

Credits

Concept, choreography and visualization: Sonja JokiniemiPerformers: Ivo Serra, Mira Kautto, Sara GurevitschMusic composition and percussion: Tatu RönkköLighting design: Kristian PalmuProducer: Riikka ThitzCo-production: Zodiak / Center for New Dance, Moving in November, Eastern Finland Regional Dance CenterResidency support: Arsenic Theatre, Eastern Finland Regional Dance Center, ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Pianofabriek Kunstenwerkplaats, STUK House for Dance, Image & Sound, wpZimmerWith support from: Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation