Statement (written 20.12.2021, subject to change)
''Artists make art. What art is. I don't know. I as an artist try to make art that unfolds as visual, cyber, oral, carnal and material articulation. Art that acts as a possible crossing of different time and space layers. Art that possibly stretches out as messy materiality. This messy condition is full of tension and usually unpleasant. Art is not a solution. Art is a problem and therefore to me endlessly interesting. We can always talk more about this. Txt me if you want to talk +358409683663. See, after all, I ended up defining art as something.''
Bio
Suvi Tuominen (b.1989) is an artist, archaeologist and dance-performer based in Helsinki, Finland. She works in the extended fields of choreography, physical dramaturgy, performance, installation, live art and heritage studies. In the year 2021 she started working as a co-curator of contemporary performance for Helsinki City Theater with Tuomas Laitinen and Riikka Thitz.
Education
2021 MA in Live Art and Performance Studies - University of the Arts Helsinki
2021 MA exchange in Choreography 3 months - Danish National School of Performing Arts
2019 MA in Arts (archaeology) - University of Helsinki
2017 Vocational degree Contemporary Dance - North Karelia College Outokumpu
2014 BA in Arts (archaeology, anthropology, heritage studies) - University of Helsinki
1998- Suvi carries also a deep practice and experience in the professional field of oriental dance / raqs sharqi. She has learned from many teachers who work professionally in Near Eastern, North African and European contexts. Her take on the practice and the way the dance is conceptualized is critical. Staying with these practice(s) is important for Suvi since, for example, art academies do not accommodate such movement practices.
''Artists make art. What art is. I don't know. I as an artist try to make art that unfolds as visual, cyber, oral, carnal and material articulation. Art that acts as a possible crossing of different time and space layers. Art that possibly stretches out as messy materiality. This messy condition is full of tension and usually unpleasant. Art is not a solution. Art is a problem and therefore to me endlessly interesting. We can always talk more about this. Txt me if you want to talk +358409683663. See, after all, I ended up defining art as something.''
Bio
Suvi Tuominen (b.1989) is an artist, archaeologist and dance-performer based in Helsinki, Finland. She works in the extended fields of choreography, physical dramaturgy, performance, installation, live art and heritage studies. In the year 2021 she started working as a co-curator of contemporary performance for Helsinki City Theater with Tuomas Laitinen and Riikka Thitz.
Education
2021 MA in Live Art and Performance Studies - University of the Arts Helsinki
2021 MA exchange in Choreography 3 months - Danish National School of Performing Arts
2019 MA in Arts (archaeology) - University of Helsinki
2017 Vocational degree Contemporary Dance - North Karelia College Outokumpu
2014 BA in Arts (archaeology, anthropology, heritage studies) - University of Helsinki
1998- Suvi carries also a deep practice and experience in the professional field of oriental dance / raqs sharqi. She has learned from many teachers who work professionally in Near Eastern, North African and European contexts. Her take on the practice and the way the dance is conceptualized is critical. Staying with these practice(s) is important for Suvi since, for example, art academies do not accommodate such movement practices.