Enter Exude – CANCELLED

PLEASE NOTICE: Enter Exude by Teo Ala-Ruona is unfortunately cancelled due to personal circumstances for a member of the working group.

About the performance

Enter Exude is a cinematic auto-fantasy for three performers and a Chevrolet Camaro.

Born from the anal canal of an automobile, the three techno-brothers derive pleasure from inhaling the spirit of the car, which is simultaneously a symbol of familial and trans narratives. Enter Exude takes the audience on an ominously erotic ride, unfolding on various time scales, blurring the boundaries between life and slow death.

Enter Exude delves into contemporary notions of gender, technology, and ecology, while crafting a hypnotic and haunting experience of unfulfilled desires. The performance is concurrently exaggerative and intimate, breaking the boundaries of the stage and creating a continuous interplay between reality and the imagined. Enter Exude continues Ala-Ruona’s series of performances that explore the intertwining of environmental toxicities and trans-corporeality with bodily transformations and complex sexuality forming an intense, mutually accelerating cycle.

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About the artist

Teo Ala-Ruona is an interdisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, working within the expanded field of performance. In his work, he experiments with the possibilities of somatic fiction to influence our perceptions of the human body, exploring the interplay between linguistic, semiotic, and biological existence, while engaging with themes of techno-trans-masculinity and eco-normative narratives of “naturalness”. Ala-Ruona’s work has recently been shown in Performa Biennial (USA), The Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art (LT), The Finnish National Gallery Kiasma (FI), The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (UK), Sequences festival (FI), and Toaster (DK).

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Performance Bulletin

Den Frie and Toaster presents the upcoming performance festival The Performance Bulletin, which will take place June 5-8 2025. Together with Danish and international performance artists, we investigate how situational performance pieces can introduce alternative ways of engaging and experiencing contemporary art.  Formed by artistic actions that disrupts our attention and opens the senses, the program asks what kinds of imaginations can be activated through embodied, situated, and processual performances.

The program is based on close collaborations with artists, who experiment with everything from feminist openings of symbols and monuments in the city, to collective dance ecstasies, vocal performances, joints dinners, performative explorations of the city’s infrastructure,s and traffic hubs, to as well as performance pieces that slow down the paste pace and enhance our sensitivity. Improvisation and movement are central forces in the program, which experiment with access and negotiate of the use of the public space. Celebrating the unexpected, indeterminate, and estranged impulse of performances, the program tests public attention and social processes by the happening of art.

The program is curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm in close collaborations and dialogue with the artists and the, Toaster and Den Frie curatorial teams. The program is generously supported by New Carlsberg Foundation, Bikuben Foundation, Danish Arts Council and Roskilde University.