http://www.hirvanen.net and Friends of Physical Contemporary Art Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:00:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.hirvanen.net/2012/01/on-ice-re-make-2012-14th-20th-april-kiasma-theatre-helsinki/?lang=en http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/11/panel-discussion-role-of-audience-in-contemporary-performance-baltic-circle-festival-16th-nov-11/?lang=en http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/11/on-ice-at-melkweg-amsterdam-17th-dec/?lang=en http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/09/on-ice-at-dansens-hus-stockholm-21st-25th-september-11/?lang=en Worldview (a working title of the piece) thinks about how worldviews are constructed and how they are performed. Premiere 2013. choreography and direction: Maija Hirvanen lighting design: Heikki Paasonen dress design: Jouko Korkeasaari]]> http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/09/worldview-working-title/?lang=en Maija Hirvanen’s performance series Operation We looks at the differences and similarities of people who believe in democracy. Each of the choreographic works approach the subject area from a different point of view. The first part, Our social democratic bodies, was premiered at Zodiak centre for new dance, Helsinki in April 2011. The second part, entitled For those who have time, will premiere at Zodiak in November 2012. The performance deals with the modern life]]> http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/09/for-those-who-have-time-2/?lang=en Our social democratic bodies was premiered at Zodiak centre for new dance, Helsinki in April 2011. The piece was made close to the the Finnish parliamentary elections, to ask how one of the basis of the Finnish society’s welfare, social democracy, could be approached choreographically and in a performative manner. The piece is funnily sad or sadly funny in it’s tone. Our social democratic bodies is the first part in Maija Hirvanen’s performance series Operation]]> http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/09/our-social-democratic-bodies-2/?lang=en NEW: ON ICE RE-MAKE 2012 AT KIASMA THEATRE, HELSINKI, APRIL 14TH-20TH 2012. On Ice is a portrait of a contemporary woman in a social democratic society. With humour, the performer of the work skates on the glassy surface of the search for identity, between attributions to and/or demands on femininity and humanity, as a cheerleader gone rogue. For Hirvanen, “On Ice” works like a comic strip that is made up of episodes and associative images.]]> http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/09/on-ice-2/?lang=en I have made site-specific and context-specific adaptations of my work: here are some examples of the adaptations. Maija Hirvanen re-made a piece On Ice that was originally made for stage at ANTI festival 2010, Kuopio. The project returned to its site-based origins: initial versions of the piece were developed in situ at HIFK, the Helsinki Ice Hockey team’s stadium, where Maija worked with the team’s cheerleaders. The artist drew also on her own experience of]]> http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/09/on-ice-anti/?lang=en “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” (Andy Warhol, 1968) “In the future 15 people will be famous. In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.” (Andy Warhol, 1979) “The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.” - Roland Barthes, ‘Mythologies’ ‘Being Greta’ deals with the essence of mediated substance that lives in a human being only for a moment, moving then to a next target, the next human.]]> http://www.hirvanen.net/2011/09/being-greta/?lang=en