Audience Body Credits
Working group
Script, direction: Tuomas Laitinen
Lighting designer: Nanni Vapaavuori
Sound designer: Carolina Jinde
Set designer: Alexander Furunes Eriksson
Graphic designer, documentation: Visa Knuuttila
Producer: Saana Reijonen
Printing and cutting the paper rolls: Ilari Laitinen and Venla Matsi
Voices of the audience members heard in the performance
1. Excerpts from interviews of audience members of A Reading of Audience, the first artistic part of the doctorate
Alexander Eriksson Furunes & Carolina Jinde 18.12.2020
Outi Condit 21.12.2020
Olga Spyropoulou 21.12.2020
Pekka Kantonen 1.2.2021
Minna Heikinaho 1.2.2021
Simo Kellokumpu 3.2.2021
Lynda Gaudreau 3.2.2021
Julius Elo 4.2.2021
Lea Kantonen 4.2.2021
Veli Lehtovaara 9.2.2021
Shawn Chua 10.2.2021
Juli Reinartz 11.2.2021
Liisa Jaakonaho 11.2.2021
Satu Herrala 12.2.2021
2. A recorded conversation after a work-in-progress version of Audience Body on the 24.5.2022 at the Valssaamo space of the Cable Factory. Participants of the conversation: Kaino Wennerstrand, Hanna Helavuori, Maria Oiva, Saara Moisio, Nanni Vapaavuori, Tuomas Laitinen.
Cards written in homage to the following thinkers
Richard Sennett, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Outi Condit, Jacques Rancière, Julius Elo, Lynda Gaudreau, Michel Foucault, Ana Pais, Karolina Kucia, Laura Mulvey, John Berger, Stuart Hall, Shawn Chua, Satu Herrala, Wolfgang Iser, Adam Alston, Vincent Roumagnac, Jenni-Elina von Bagh, Kaino Wennerstrand, Olga Spyropoulou
Immersion-book
Based on the second act of Plato's Republic, a mystery play by Reality Research Center, created by Maria Oiva, Jani-Petteri Olkkonen and Tuomas Laitinen in 2017.
Other materials
1. The soil
Pie Kär: Social Soil
Created in dialogue with Kerstin Schroth in the frame of Moving in November
2. The carpet
Recycled from Janina Rajakangas & Neil Callaghan: Over Your Fucking Body. Premiere in Moving in November 2019. Set design by Jenni Pystynen. The carpet was used also in Pystynen & Rajakangas: Mutu (Dance House 2022).
3. The acrylic cubes
From Time to Audience by Tuomas Laitinen, exhibited between December 2, 2021 – January 30, 2022 at Ebb and flow exhibition, Kuva/Tila Gallery, Uniarts Helsinki’ s Fine Arts Academy.
The work is part of Tuomas Laitinen’s artistic doctorate at the Performing Arts Research Center Tutke, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Supervisors of the doctorate are Esa Kirkkopelto and Gareth White.
Production: Reality Research Center
Production in collaboration with: Moving in November
With the support of: Zodiak – Center for New Dance
Supported by:
Jenny ja Antti Wihuri Foundation
Kone Foundation's Saari Residence
Performing Arts Research Center Tutke, Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy
TTOR – Steering group of artistic research, Uniarts Helsinki
Arts Promotion Center Finland
Helsinki City
Brother