Photo credit: Aman Askarizad

Paria Mohajerani

Paria Mohajeani is a performance artist based in Helsinki studying Live Art and Performance Studies at the University of the Arts, Helsinki, and originally from Iran. Her background is in acting and directing both in stage shows and experimental, site-specific, and online performances. Working with audience responsibilities and ethics in performances drew her to question how to engage the audience to redefine power structures in performance arts and events. She also works with concepts of alternative ways of storytelling, navigating historical gaps, and challenging the constructs of memory. Her portfolio spans political, immersive, documentary, and site-specific performances often intertwining with video installations and multimedia arts.

Xiole Wang

Wang Xiaole is a young performance artist who prefers to identify as an experiencer and explorer. Her interests often stem from paradoxical personal feelings toward common human issues. Drawing on insights from Chinese cultural background and her education in philosophy, she employs absurdity as a tool to approach political questions, striving to embrace irrationality. She also delves into the body-mind relationship, placing a strong emphasis on the body. A weirdo, foodie, overthinker, and a contradiction, she possesses a curiosity about the world and humanity. Currently, she is exploring and experiencing life in Finland and Europe, pursuing studies in Live Art and Performance Studies at the University of Arts Helsinki.

Anita kremm

Anita Kremm (1998, Tallinn, Estonia) is a visual artist working with film, video, and performance. She demonstrates versatility in constructing her art across various styles and mediums, always with a specific intent: a focus on interpersonal relations, the boundaries between the known and unknown, the every day and uncanny, and the dynamics of mastery and subordination. By disrupting automatic routines and pushing beyond comfort zones, she creates moments that are out of the ordinary, challenging the familiar and inviting the unknown. Her works and performances were exhibited in Tallinn, Helsinki, Moscow, Weimar, Graz, and Prague; her experimental short films were selected for several festivals in Europe. She lives and works in Tallinn and is currently studying in the MA program in scenography at the Estonian Academy of Arts under Professor Ene-Liis Semper.

Raphaël Beau

Raphaël Beau is a performing artist from France, based in Helsinki. His artistic practice is inspired by somatic practices, contemporary dance, improvisation, and instant composition. His performances are his practice at work, integrated into a score, implemented in the presence of an audience. He explores performing in different contexts where the performance reveals the multiplicity of ways to be present to a place. His practice grows and accumulates layers by being implemented again and again in various locations, including public spaces.

Photo credit: Tiia Junnila

Aeon Lux

Aeon Lux (b.1993, Karkkila) is a visual and performance artist from Seinäjoki. Lately, she has been inspired by fooling around in her own performance practice and having fun. It is typical for Lux to create humorous performances that deal with the short journey between extremes, which deal with the sacred and the taboo, the clean and the dirty, and admire the beauty of the moving body.
Lux graduated from The Art School of Kankaanpää with a Bachelor of Culture and Arts in 2017, where she studied performance art. She works annually as a performance club curator for Kunsthalle Seinäjoki.

Photo credit: Pasi Puskala

Artists

Aman Askarizad

Aman Askarizad (b.1986 Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and producer based in Vantaa. As a multidisciplinary artist, he is interested in using different mediums to create works, situations, and conversations that unravel power dynamics and highlight the ethics of encountering others. His research focuses on the politics of representation in art and music. He's driven to promote inclusivity and tackle challenges posed by power structures and hierarchies through open dialogue and collective problem-solving. Since 2024 he’s been co-founder and co-curator of The Other Side, a performance art platform based in Vantaa, Finland.

Photo credit: Yingruo Zhou

Dongbin Lee

Dongbin Lee (1988) is a traditional Korean artist currently based in Tallinn, Estonia. Mr. Lee's work is focused on the field of performative arts, in which he serves as a director, actor, and creator. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from Chung-Ang University's Department of Traditional Arts and a Master's degree in Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EAMT). He has inherited the Bongsan mask dance, an important intangible cultural asset of Korean traditional art, which has recently been designated an intangible heritage of humanity. His interest has led him to explore theatre, art and traditional dance, thereby expanding his artistic portfolio. He works with a number of different partners in Korea and Europe, and his work has been very well received.