Cooperators

Shubhangi Singh’s practice as a visual artist and filmmaker responds to contemporary politics and the interconnectedness of production and reproduction of popular everyday material. She often draws upon her experiences as well as the existing feminist actions to address movement, identity and queries related to the feminine and its position within society. Her works include moving image, text, lecture-performance, sketches and mixed media installations; while her interests range from (un)materiality, bodily autonomy, folktales and the vague blurring between fact and fiction. Singh is the co-founder of New City Limits, an initiative to facilitate creative viewing and practice in Navi Mumbai, India and currently lives and practices in Helsinki.

Bini Adamczak (Berlin) works as a philosopher and artist who writes on political theory, queer politics, and the past future of revolutions. She invented the term "circlusion" and is the author of Communism for Kids (MIT) and Yesterday's Tomorrow. On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future (MIT, forthcoming). Together with Konstanze Schmitt she created the theatre play Everybody Needs Only You. Love in Times of Capitalism (Berlin 2019).

Torkild Thanem is Professor of Work Life Research at the University of Agder, Norway, and a Visiting Professor of Management & Organization Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has published on a variety of issues relating to the monstrous, including ethics, leadership and diversity. Torkild is the author of two books: The Monstrous Organization (published by Edward Elgar in 2011) and Embodied Research Methods (published by Sage, 2019, and co-authored by David Knights).

Dasha Che (they/them) is a Russian-American gender nonbinary artist. As a dance artist, activist and educator Che is committed to creating accessible art spaces that uplift and empower those whose voices have been previously silenced. As a performer and a researcher, currently Che works with queer, ‘undercommons,’ and other-than-humans’ corporeal memory, estrangement and foreignness through reading philosophy, economics science fiction, giving presentations, wandering around, writing scores and making solo and collaborative performance work. One of the ongoing projects of Che is the collaborative duet with the dance artist and archaeologist Suvi Tuominen called Che Tuo Duo that explores bodies, art and economies. Born in provincial Russia into the collapse of the Soviet and having lived undocumented in the United States, Che brings in the questions of the kind of intimacy, kinship and closeness that develop while being lost, disoriented and unsafe in this world. In 2017 Che founded Telaboratoria (2017-2019), a dance improvisation program for the LGBTQ+ Russians.

H m Ouramo (they/them) is a non-binary artist who works with spaces, movement, words, translations, sculpture/objects and direct intervention. Moments of encounter, closeness and distance and mechanisms of recognition are important to their work. Their work often has to do with dismantling systems of thought set in place by oppression, colonisation and gender. They often explore matter and objects in relation to the idea of a marginalised body and its proportions, its everyday life and given meaning, and they keep asking how do these bodies sustain themselves, share knowledge and hide when needed. They are currently working with the concepts of innocence, taxidermy and grounds. Queer living, feminism and social justice inform the ways they work.

Sezgin Boynik is a theoretician based in Helsinki. He completed his PhD on Yugoslav “Black Wave” cinema. He co-edited Nationalism and Contemporary Art: Critical Reader (MM & Exit, 2007), History of Punk and Underground in Turkey (BAS, 2008), Noise After Babel: Language Unrestrained (Spector Books, 2015, with Minna Henriksson). Recent publications include In the Belly of the Beast: Art & Language New York Project (Rab-Rab Journal Vol. 4, No. 2, 2017, with Michael Corris), Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin's Language (Rab-Rab Press, 2018), and Free Jazz Communism (Rab-Rab Press, 2020). He is currently working on a project of translating Ilya Zdanevich's zaum play Yanko, Krul Albanskaya and on the collection of Yugoslav concrete and visual poetry to be published by OEI Press. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rab-Rab Press in Helsinki (www.rabrab.fi).

Olga Spyropoulou (b. 1985, Athens) is a performance artist and researcher who utilizes disorder as an artistic practice. In her performances, she explores how we relate to each other and experiments with different modalities of spectactorship and non-hierarchical methodologies. Her artistic research focuses on the performativity of institutions that support and produce the current economies of knowledge.

Ella Spyropoulou (b. 2012, Thessaloniki) moved recently to Helsinki. A 48-kilo mixed-breed dog, Ella spends her days napping, eating, walking, sleeping, and teaching her companion, Olga, how to become more adventurous. Her interests include exploring the forest, running after rabbits and squirrels, getting all kinds of dog treats. When on a leash, she’s topping from the bottom. When followed, she gets agitated. She often attends lectures and rehearsals at the Theatre Academy. Ella refuses to listen to Portishead's album Dummy.

Tero Nauha is a professor in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), Uniarts Helsinki and a performance artist. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Finland funded postdoctoral research project ‘How To Do Things With Performance?’, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2017. He defended his doctoral research on schizoanalysis and immanent capitalism at the Theatre Academy of the Uniarts Helsinki in January 2016. His primary research interest is the relationships between economics, performative practices in large, artistic research, and writing.

Karolina Kucia (she/her) is a visual artist with a background in sculpture and intermedia as well as in performance studies. At the moment she is also a doctoral candidate in artistic research in Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. She combines theoretical and practical work with objects, group processes and performances in both site-specific and staged context. Her main interests are lapse, error and stutter as well as parasitism and monstrosity in the context of precarization of labour in neoliberal capitalism and the current form of art institutions.

Danai Anagnostou is a producer for Film, Media & Live Art based in Helsinki. She is currently the Film Curator for the Museum of Impossible Forms. In 2020, she began her Doctoral Studies at Aalto University, School of Film, Television, and Scenography where she studies hybrid models for production, curation, and education in the field of filmmaking.

Roxana Sadvokassova (b. 1992, Kazakhstan), has been living and working in Finland since 2014, currently based in Helsinki. Graduated from the Academy of Moving People and Images, Roxana works with film, comedy, sculpture.

Gregoire Rousseau moved from France to Finland in 2000, researching and working actively in the field of Open Technology and digital commoning practices in contemporary art. Electricity as a form of energy produces motion, lights, audio, and activates software within a digital platform. His artistic practice stands for material as language, as concept finds form based on knowledge. The algorithmic processes challenge our perception and interpretation of the world and our society. The possibilities manifested by this new field in technology produce both a need in awareness and demands for a new radical approach of research to imagine new models of coming together and forms. Performances on stage operate as a sequence in time to experiment and research how materials and artistic content actually work all together once confronted with the audience. There is no clear demarcation line between live act and installation thought for art gallery space, both contribute in a formal way of expression to develop his work. Study on contradictions generates a field of knowledge and a space for his art practice.

Angelina Barbonelova, always motivated, enthusiastic and ready to learn, holds a Bachelor's degree in Media Engineering completed in Metropolia UAS Finland. During her last year of university studies she was part of Metropolia’s Hybrid Media Technology Networking project and was a presenter at the 42nd International Research Conference of iarigai Helsinki, Finland. Her hobbies and working live evolve around technology and innovation.

Alain Ryckelynck's main interests from childhood has been science and technology. Early discovery of computing and then Internet led to a passion in combining technologies and channels to build interactivity, for humans and living creatures or machines.

IT professional, CTO, entrepreneur in various related fields such as system administrator, web developer, hosting and streaming provider with AJ-Group.net and having most fun experimenting with electronics and interconnected devices. Currently living with his family in Espoo, Finland.

Warda Ahmed is a visual artist, teacher and illustrator Warda Ahmed is an artist that lives and works in the Helsinki metropolitan area. As an anti-racist feminist, Ahmed participates actively in the public debate about the unequal structures of society. Ahmed is currently working with the project Comics and Migration funded by the Kone Foundation. Ahmed makes comics about her family’s migration stories. In 2019, the comic anthology Sisaret1918, to which Ahmed also contributed, won the Comic Finlandia award.

Palash Mukhopadhyay is a designer & developer of all things digital, tinkerer and part-time wordist. He focuses on simplicity and specialises in rapid prototyping and digital toolsets. He learns whatever’s necessary for the job, and has over 15 years of experience in designing and developing for the web.

Janina Daria Witkowski is a camera professional who has graduated as a visual artist in 2005 from Taidekoulu Maa in Suomenlinna, Helsinki. After some exploring and studying and living in Reykjavik in Iceland, Janina returned to Finland to study and work in the Finnish film industry. After two years of education in Villilä Studios in Nakkila, Janina moved to Helsinki. She has worked in all the positions within the camera crew in various productions over the last ten years.

Omron ld60 is a self-navigating Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) designed for dynamically moving material in challenging environments that may include confined passageways as well as dynamic and peopled locations.