Why So Myrtsi? Myyrmäki Arts Night 2024
The Other Side is excited to bring the first edition of the ONE-DAY STAND event in collaboration with Catalysti Artist Association to Myyrmäki Arts Night 2024, organized by Myyrmäki-Seura.
Vantaa is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and Why So Myrtsi is marking its 10th anniversary. To celebrate, The Other Side is collaborating with Catalysti RY, a non-profit art association founded in 2013, which is a network of transcultural artists working at the intersection of activism and art. The importance of this collaboration lies in the multicultural environment of the Myyrmäki neighborhood, the transcultural nature of the Catalysti association and its members, and the interactions and relations built through the medium of performance art between artists and the public.
For this event, The Other Side selected five proposals from an open call for Catalysti artists. The selected performances all incorporate participatory elements and engage socially with their audiences in public spaces. Artists construct an immersive environment in which socio-political issues are articulated through their playful and radical presence, and striking actions and gestures.
Learn more about Why So Myyrtsi: Myyrmaki Arts Night here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/470275838737856
Design: Parsa Kamehkhosh
One-Day Stand No.1
Photo credit: Aman Askarizad
TianRui Pan
Tianrui (b.2000, Yunnan, China) is an artist currently based in Prague and Finland. She mainly works with performances, texts, images, and installations based on her embodiment experiences of constant relocating. She is often inspired by ambiguities within naming, language, history, and children's plays. The dynamics between the personal narratives and social intervention is a crucial drive of her art practice.
Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is a choreographic entity founded in the year 2019 by Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen. They have created performances for different dance and performance art institutions such as Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Tanzhaus Zürich residency, Contemporary Art Space Kutomo Turku, Santo Tirso Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, and festivals such as New Performance Turku Biennale, Riga Performance Art festival, MIR - performance festival Athens and Pas Si Fragile - performance festival Brussels. Between 2023-2025 MTBF works with the support of the Kone Foundation. MTBF works at the intersection of dance, performance art, and conceptual art. MTBF creates works that bring humor, provocation, and physicality together.
Maria Gat’sal
Maria Ga'tsal is a Mexican-Spanish teaching artist based in Helsinki, Finland, specializing in contemporary dance, dance improvisation, and acting. With a BFA in acting and extensive experience in both acting and dance, she has a thorough understanding of stagecraft and performance. Her dance education includes training in contemporary, modern dance, jazz, and Urban Dance styles, enriched by self-learning and exploration. Maria believes strongly in art’s ability to unite people and considers it fundamental to the health and prosperity of any society.
Chih-Tung Lin
Chih-Tung Lin (she/they) is a curator and artist based in Helsinki, Finland, originally from Taiwan. They express through curating, illustration, performance art, and a blend of these mediums. They are interested in interdisciplinary qualities and playfulness in their practice and aim to blur the boundaries between their roles as a curator and an artist. They work with topics related to social relations, societal roles, and the artist-curator relationship. Lin holds a MFA in Praxis Exhibition Studies Program at University of the Arts Helsinki.
Tangmo Ladapha Sophonkunkit
Tangmo Ladapha S. is a Thai performance artist and producer working between Bangkok and Helsinki. She is continuously researching and processing more ways to work with memories as a medium in her performance. Her practice in memory art revolves around exploring personal and social memories in performance with the aim of re-remembering the past and reimagining possible futures. In these regards, she often utilizes shared physical and emotional spaces alongside her audience to act as a vehicle for conjuring up memories and discovering what lies behind and beyond them.