patriotic body that is unsure of itself

a solo dance work. May 2022

photo by Taina Koistinen

Patriotic body is an attachment body – it needs to attach itself to something else bigger than a single body to exist.

Patriotic body is a failure that has always remained a fiction in the gap between the constructed past and imagined future.

Patriotic body can be activated and can be suppressed but it is always there.

I might have a patriotic body while always trying to flee from it.

This 30-minutes dance work continues my physical and affectual research of a patriotic body in the time of war. The dance is performed in old Outokumpu mine both outside and inside.

photo by Taina Koistinen
photo by Taina Koistinen
photo by Taina Koistinen
photo by Visa Knuuttila