Location
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Time
10/10 2024
Genre
Artificial Optimism performance program
Fin de section
by
Ville Laurinkoski
Performance happens together with a performance by Jessica Ekomane
Ville Laurinkoski (*1996, FI)
Fin de section, 2024, Performance
Ville Laurinkoski works with literature and voices, objects and spaces, acting with and through exaggerated speech, screams and song. Other elements in their works include worn mattresses, discarded domestic objects and commercial music, all revolving around states of loneliness and intimacy but also comfort and bliss. Their series of performances Fin de section is inspired by the French author Guy Hocquenghem’s transgressive short story collection from 1975 bearing the same title. The book is about being queer in the socio-political climate of the 1970s and failing to meet the demands of normality, while the title can be loosely translated to ‘the last stop’, for example on a journey. The book’s short stories also constitute an effort to think about the directionless nature of everyday life after times of revolution, making them relevant to our present day, particularly to our diffuse sense of ‘now’ and unclear picture of the future. Ville Laurinkoski’s installations and performances generally revolve around rediscovering or re-establishing a relationship with what has been effaced or forgotten – such as the collective as unconsciousness or a special way of being together. Perhaps the Futurists can be said to have done the opposite: seeking to erase the past, even though this erasure was never complete.
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ABOUT VILLE LAURINKOSKI (FI)
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ARTIFICIAL OPTIMISM PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
Artificial Optimism is an exhibition about the resonances of futurism in contemporary art, which can be experienced at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning from Aug. 24th – Oct. 27th 2024. During the exhibition period, performances and concerts by the exhibiting artists will be regularly held. Performance was central to futurism and the program is inspired by the evenings and afternoons that the futurists held between 1909 and 1914, where they presented combinations of readings, sound art, happenings, etc. Participation in the performance program is free when the ticket to the exhibition has been paid.
The exhibition’s performance program has been developed under the auspices of Toaster, a collaboration between Husets Teater and Den Frie.
Photo
Ville Laurinkoski
