51 performances

Paula Lehtonen, Pia Sirén, Pekka Ruuska, Eero Yli-Vakkuri in collaboration with Emmi Vainio

These serial performances created in domestic spaces are understood as habits or routines and belong to the everyday. The everyday world of the home is where society’s values are performed and enacted. Contractual customs shape the private space and regulate the environment, such customs include the placing of furniture and personal behavior. It is time to observe what kind of patterns of behavior the home offers in the age of mass production and formatted media. This 12 hour 14 minute performance consisting of 51 individual performances is developed on the terms of domestic space. This procedural performance is open to the audience for its entire duration. 51 performances will be recorded on video and presented as an installation in the home from 9pm onwards.

xxx group produces durational site specific performances that take their form from the context of their location. In this way the work reacts to the performance space and the presence of an audience. The group’s practice is communal and interactive. In a previous 12-hour performance consisting of 50 performances, the group investigated the relationship between behavior and performance. xxx group will continue to perform in different contexts and have ambitions for a 24-hour work comprising of 100 individual performances. xxx group are a collective of young Finnish artists interested in process-based practices.

51 performances will be documented by journalist Emmi Vainio, a specialist in communal media.

http://www.keosto.org/Xxx_performanssia

When and where:
Sat 27.9. performance 6am – 6.14pm, private home
installation 9pm, private home (Huuhankatu 4 C 1)