2025
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In the Search of Hope and Connection
While working as an ambassador at NPT Biennale I designed two audience workshops; one for upper secondary schoolers and one for young adults. I planned the experiences and chose which performances to visit based on topics that…
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Paradise, perhaps, is not lost
Nurturing, thoughtful and creative work in the encounter with art In the training offered by the Audience Ambassador Programme at NPT, I discovered —or perhaps finally understood— the way performative art operates. And thanks to it, I…
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Too Much Perfection Is A Failure
By Ionas LaineFragments, Reflections And Notes From The New Performance Turku Festival The audience ambassador is a border-crosser – a person who moves across the thresholds between institutions and communities. They are an interpreter, someone who tries to put…
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Fresh starts, building connections and new experiences
I have lived in Turku for seven years and have come to see this city as one with a beautifully active and vibrant independent culture scene, much more so than in most cities of a similar size.…
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A little bit hungry after dinner
It all started last April when I was checking Facebook and my eyes caught an interesting advertisement: an ‘open call’ for NPT Biennale audience ambassadors. I still wonder how I have reached the point of telling my…
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Dream big, imagine the Walking Iris
By Mika PasanenAs an anthropologist, I am interested in art in everyday life, before it is framed as Art, as it were. Not only in the content and aesthetics of art, but also in the social, political and affective…
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Unexpected encounters and conversations on performance
I choose the performances I would work with as ambassador in a rather intuitive way. I hadn’t seen any of them, so it was just a hunch: Parsa Kamehkhosh’s Calling Piece, and Darius Fodczuk’s Dialogue with a…
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From theater world to performance art – My experience as Ambassador
I approached my work as audience ambassador with a strong interest in engaging young people and also activists interested in art; people who likely had no previous experience with performance art but may discover new things through…