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About
Suvi Tuominen identifies herself as artist, performer and theoretical archaeologist. Her research trajectories are usually playful, chaotic, messy and carnal. This means that instead of taking measurements you might see her licking a paleolithic stone tool, shaking her leg or surrendering to the gravity of her own speculative death. This is also how Suvi does theoretical archaeology; with performance.
Recently, Suvi's research interests has circled around such concepts as orientation, intimacy, heritage, aliens, and withdrawal. Suvi thinks that most of archaeological knowledge eventually translates into lingual, material or visual representations that then forcefully create centralised aestheticizations or narrations of the 'human' past. Therefore, Suvi is highly interested in all kinds of interfaces between archaeology and the arts, that (un)make sensemaking/reasoning or question hegemonic forms of knowledge-production (aestheticizations and narratives) in archaeology.
Currently Suvi works with practices such as improvisational movement, somatics, writing, dance with objects, listening, teaching and photographing. She is also interested in the practices of archaeological excavations, archiving and field surveys. However, these highly institutionalised practices are stages where also failures, misreadings and disappointments often unfold, therefore, Suvi finds them inspirational in terms of re-orienting the relationships between matter and thinking; rules and resistance; desires and disinterests.
Bio
Based in Helsinki / Finland
b. 1989
2019–2021 Live Art and Performance Studies master's (University of the Arts Helsinki)
2019 Master of Arts in archaeology (University of Helsinki)
2017 Dancer's vocational degree (North Karelia college Outokumpu)
2014 Bachelor of Arts in archaeology (University of Helsinki)
-You sure?
-No.
About
Suvi Tuominen identifies herself as artist, performer and theoretical archaeologist. Her research trajectories are usually playful, chaotic, messy and carnal. This means that instead of taking measurements you might see her licking a paleolithic stone tool, shaking her leg or surrendering to the gravity of her own speculative death. This is also how Suvi does theoretical archaeology; with performance.
Recently, Suvi's research interests has circled around such concepts as orientation, intimacy, heritage, aliens, and withdrawal. Suvi thinks that most of archaeological knowledge eventually translates into lingual, material or visual representations that then forcefully create centralised aestheticizations or narrations of the 'human' past. Therefore, Suvi is highly interested in all kinds of interfaces between archaeology and the arts, that (un)make sensemaking/reasoning or question hegemonic forms of knowledge-production (aestheticizations and narratives) in archaeology.
Currently Suvi works with practices such as improvisational movement, somatics, writing, dance with objects, listening, teaching and photographing. She is also interested in the practices of archaeological excavations, archiving and field surveys. However, these highly institutionalised practices are stages where also failures, misreadings and disappointments often unfold, therefore, Suvi finds them inspirational in terms of re-orienting the relationships between matter and thinking; rules and resistance; desires and disinterests.
Bio
Based in Helsinki / Finland
b. 1989
2019–2021 Live Art and Performance Studies master's (University of the Arts Helsinki)
2019 Master of Arts in archaeology (University of Helsinki)
2017 Dancer's vocational degree (North Karelia college Outokumpu)
2014 Bachelor of Arts in archaeology (University of Helsinki)
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