Performance | Tia Hassinen

NEW MOON & FULL MOON

New Moon and Full Moon where two forms of the same performance exploring site specificity and time as a part of the feministic horror house exhibition Fears or Fierce? taking over Oksasenkatu 11 in August 2020.

Both performances used the exhibition space and installations as a set. The interiors and the space influenced heavily to the choreography of the performances and the performances left their mark changing and evolving the exhibition further.

The performances explored the different tropes and roles of the female protagonist and the monstrous feminine in the cultural story telling and social narratives. Performances consisted on live music, dance, text and grotesque performance.

The first "episode" New Moon was an opening performance and took place in an dungeon like gallery space in the basement of the gallery.

The second and evolved version of the same theme Full Moon was the evolved grand finale of the exhibition ending the exhibition by destroying some of the art pieces in the space on a finissage event. Full Moon was performed in the street level of the gallery space and could only be viewed through the big gallery window outside.

Directing, Costume, Scenography and Light design: Tia Hassinen

Dramaturgy: The whole working group

Performers: Helena Aleksandrova, Michelle Orenius, Roxana Sadvokassova, Pihla Sudenyö, Ida-Sofia Tuomisto

Music: Ida-Sofia Tuomisto

Text: Michelle Orenius, Ida-Sofia Tuomisto

Dance and Choreography: Pihla Sudenyö

Technical assistance: Saku Kämäräinen

Documentation: Mariangela Pluchino

NEW MOON

14th of August 2020, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki

Pictures by Mariangela Pluchino

FULL MOON TRAILER

30th of August 2020, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki

PENANCE

16th of May 2017, Espoo Museum of Modern Art- EMMA, Espoo

Penance was a three hour site specific fashion performance and installation which was a part of PreHelsinki fashion festival in May 2017, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art

I directed a performance in devising with the other two performers for Hanne Jurmu's collection and concept based on the aesthetics of the film Colour of the Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov.

Choregraphy was created for the particular space in the EMMA museum and was located in the corner with Joseph Beyus's photographs and kinetic sand.

Performance was created around repetitive actions repeated in slow motion movement and actions representing penance in religious rituals.

Concept, Installation and Fashion: Hanne Jurmu

Directing and Choreography: Tia Hassinen in devising with Sini Hassinen, Hanne Jurmu and Heta Saukkonen

Performers: Sini Hassinen, Tia Hassinen and Heta Saukkonen

Video installation: Heta Saukkonen

The event and the performance where featured in Vogue Itala https://www.vogue.it/galleries/gait64187? pagina=2

Images by Sara Riikonen

VALTIOMAINEN HANKE

19.-20.6.2017, Theatre Academy, Helsinki

Was a performance happening about emotion, boundaries, borders and identity. Happening and it's different actions where taken place in an immersive utopian set of fairytale like garden built in the theatre studio. Audience was invited to find their place in the set and to take apart and enjoy various fragments of the multi sensory experience.

A Statelike Project combined a playful Fluxus ideology with elements of spectacle into a seemingly pleasant but ravishingly political statement about bodily autonomy, global responsibility and critique of the neo nationalistic values using playful metaphors and a twist of a classic fairytale tradition as a baseline for dramaturgy.

The performance was created by devising method.

Directing, Art Directing and Light Design: Tia Hassinen

Dramaturgy: Toini Nissinen

Music: Toini Nissinen

Texts: Toini Nissinen, Katja Luukanen

Performers: Siiri Ervasti, Katja Luukanen, Denis Kaya, Antton Nissinen, Tia Hassinen, Pihla Sudenyö.