Vantaa Art Museum Artsi- April 10th 2025
The One-Day Stand No.3 comes to our audiences in collaboration with Vantaa Art Museum Artsi and within the context of the exhibition, Steps in the City. As the exhibition explores the cultural and visual dimensions of urban space, performance art brings these themes into the present moment through live and lived action and direct engagement. Its ephemeral and embodied nature resists fixed meanings, inviting audiences to witness and participate in shifting dynamics of presence, power, and public space. Whether through subtle gestures or bold interventions, performance art creates fleeting yet impactful encounters, transforming the way we experience the public and private spaces and the relationships within it.
Poster Design: Parsa Kamehkhosh
One-Day Stand No.3
Ilze Mazpane
Ilze Mazpane is a performance artist from Riga, Latvia, with a background in philosophy, experimental theatre, visual communication, art education, and creative writing. In her work, Ilze seeks freedom from the tyranny of clock time and therefore explores pure duration (A. Bergson), kairos or the right moment, the right balance (Aristotle), and the concept of flow (M. Csikszentmihalyi).
Eero Yli-Vakkuri
Eero Yli-Vakkuri (b.1981) is a recovering survivalist whose work focuses on public spaces. In the past he made annoying street interventions which made people uncomfortable, presently he is advancing sustainable design through campaigns, workshops and artistic presentations. He prefers to work in groups and to develop antidisciplinary collaborations with specialists from different fields.
Alyssa Coffin
Alyssa is an interdisciplinary artist from the USA, based in Helsinki, Finland. She has a master’s in Time and Space Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Her work includes writing, spoken word, performance, moving image, and site-responsive structures. She collaborates with animate materials from the land to create primal structures for the body to remerge and be in dialogue with the earth and spirit. Her practice is grounded in attention, silence, and sensory embodied engagement.
Artists & Documentation of Their Performances
niko wearden
niko wearden (he/they) is a British performance artist who lives in helsinki now. At the moment, they have a practice of mostly refusing to talk about their practice. niko tends to their body in water, lying on the floor, ecological grief and waiting with his kin. He doesn’t want to wait alone anymore. niko will graduate in July 2025 from their master's in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) at the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. They are looking forward to welcoming audiences to their thesis production later this spring.
Clair Le Couteur
Dr Clair Le Couteur (they/them) is a visually impaired, non-binary vocalist, artist and scholar. They explore voice and folk heritage through performance and research. Clair has a 3+ octave range and is a specialist in overtone technique, performing and teaching internationally at a wide range of venues including music festivals, museums, universities, theatres and galleries. They received the British Music Collection’s 2021 LGBTQ+ Composers Award, the 2022 George Butterworth Award and the 2022 RNIB Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Award. Clair’s PhD project ‘The Fictive Museum’ (RCA 2017) explores the spaces between fact and fiction in museums and archives.
