Vappu Jalonen

This Is For You, This Is Not For You

Text-based performances 2015–2016

 

There you are with non-trembling hands, in the almost right place, almost perfectly fitting, the stage is almost for you.

This Is For You, This Is Not For You is a text-based performance about the fitting of things, bodies, spaces and words and the power relations embedded in this. The work tells fragmental and frictional stories of bodies and clothes, bodies and image sensors, giving a talk, being exhausted, walking with a knife in your pocket, and hurtful words and replying to them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Versions of the work have been performed at

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2016

New Materialisms: Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability, Warsaw, 2016

Encountering Materiality: Science, Art, Language conference, Geneva, 2016

By the name of Fitting as part of the exhibition Hand Made Politics, curated by Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Gallery Titanik, Turku, 2015

By the name of Fitting, Sommerfest, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany, 2015

 

The installation in Gallery Alkovi was part of the same series of work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Titanik, work in the background by Laura Lilja, photo Katve-Kaisa Kontturi