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Works
Blog:Dancing the World
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a document of Riikka Theresa Innanen
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by Barbro Björkfelt for Yle,
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Finnish National Broadcasting Company
Social Choreographic Installation in a public space
Choreography emerges from spending time on location and by engaging and involving people of kinds with questions about happiness.
The works has been shown around the world.
The State of Sharing Democracy 2040
Performing Future: A fictive lecture in 2040 about the history of the "past 25 years" and the "current state" of new type of political structure called Sharing Democracy?
Created as part of Redesign Society Studies and Future Cafe: Reclaiming the Future event in Kluuvi Shopping Centre, Helsinki, June 2016
NUMBER is an on-going Choreographic Experiment for a group with numbers and algorithms. The work started during my Artist Residency at Daghdha Dance Company 2008-2009 and has been greatly influenced by collaboration with mathematician Alexis Clancy and our discussions
and experiments with the participating dancers.
Beduin Breakfast: Sensation wrappings "Kapalointi" and micro-climate tent with sub-base and balloons. Based on research on senses and touch. On deprivation and/or activation of sense stimuli such as smells, vibration, temperature, vision, hearing and touch.
BIOART Projects:
Intimate Technology project
Edible Solar Cells
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✴Rose with Aronia-berry
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✴Chocolate with Coffee
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✴Rose droplets on Rose
DNA Coctails
Ballast A research on movement, heritage, memory, migration and contamination
Ballast #I -Earth: Site determined video and sound Installation. Site Determined installation exhibited 2016 in the prestigious architecture of Alvar Aalto in Otaniemi in Beta Space Gallery.
A phoenix-like dance performance which will make grown men cry.
Avant guard, punk, camp, crap, anime blast from the past with Giorgio Convertito
A 90's backlash as it is a reconstruction from a work from 1997.
A stark, delicate and distinct adaptation of
Deborah Hay's solo choreography from
2011 Solo Dance Commission Project.
Music and Visual Art meets avant guard performance
and exceptional dance.
The work has toured since 2012 in North America and Europe.
Adaptation and performance by Riikka Theresa Innanen
Choreography Deborah Hay
Music by Jouni Tauriainen
Sculpture/prop Marjo Mastola
Vituttaako- installation is based on the creating an experience to piss you off, disturb and irritate in a spatial set up rigged with movement sensors, lights and sound alarms.
The work grows from expressing frustration on inability to control life, of sound and sensor pollution that we have become numb to in our environment and of the ever growing urveillance culture (business).
Grab is an communal installation to gather around, it invites to slow down, become present to the moment via a tactile, touch based experience. The texture, weight and communal gathering build a great accompaniment for galleries, cafes and experiential art experiences for all ages and groups.
Rondo (Praxes itinérantes osa II)
An artistic dialogue on thought, process and perception with and initiated by Akseli Aittoniemi
The work consists of reading philosophical texts while moving and reflecting on the wall by writing and drawing on the walls
Scatola Magica is an instantly composed dance and video installation.
The work was created is a collaboration project with Marisa Grande and Giorgio Convertito based on the spatial set up and concept created by Innanen.
Supported originally by the Amsterdamse Fonds v/d Kunst
with additional support from Kiasma - Finnish National Museum of Modern Art.
Scatola Magica -the video, is an 8 min long independent video adaptation of the live installation.
In this piece, focuses such as Time, Silence and Transformation, create a journey in the unknown rooms of the Mind and manifest it though movement, sound and kinesthetic resonance.
While scouting in the unseen, the question remains: who's subconscious is Piece of Ginger exploring - their own or a collective...
Video: https://vimeo.com/67452863
Video: https://vimeo.com/67453512