LOOK BACK AND LAUGH
Museum of Impossible Forms presents LOOK BACK AND LAUGH, a long durational research project on laughter. Together with the participants we are going to explore, exploit, experience laughing. A group of people will meet regularly every 3 weeks for about 2 hours to laugh together. Everyone is invited to join. Everybody who feels tired by waiting for the next good joke or just wants to laugh their ass off is welcome!
The dates for the first four sessions are:
Saturday, 22.02.2020
Sunday 08.03.2020
Tuesday 24.03.2020
Saturday 08.04.2020
There are no rules: you can come whenever you want and leave whenever you like. We will offer breathing exercises and ideas coming from laughing yoga as well as performative and playful tools to keep on laughing. We aim to learn about the ecstasy of laugh and to spend as much time as possible laughing. This regular exercise could lead to some impromptu performances at a Live Arts Festival at M{if} in November 2020 or at other events if the group feels up to it.
Varia Sjöström and Hatz Lambo will facilitate the group.
Varia Sjöström, born in 1980 in Vienna, works as a Performer, Actress and Musician. She grew up in a musical household and recieved a classical Piano education. While studying acting at the Academy for Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main she founded the Performance Group Nova Kleingeldproduktion with Norbert Pape. She has been working in Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Theater Bremen, HAU Berlin, Radialsystem amongst many others. With Mirko Borscht she created the long-durational performance project Station Neu Blumenthal. Since 2016 she worked with the Director Herbert Fritsch at Volksbühne Berlin. Currently she is collaborating with the Artist Hatz Lambo. Their Performance The 1755th Anniversary of Dust and Seeds, was invited to the Festival Today is our Tomorrow, Helsinki, 2019. Their work is focused on violence-based Symptoms and questions on Trauma.
Hatz Lambo, 1980 born in Germany, is working since 2008 in poetry and prose. His family background is Contemporary Dance and Martial Arts. He studied Philosophy at the University of Zurich. Amongst others he worked with the Poetrycollective G13, the Performancollective Showcase Beat Le Mot and the Director Jasco Viefhues. In 2018 he started collaborating with Varia Sjöström. Currently they are developing the Performance-Installation The Itching Triangle. In 2019 he finished the Novel The young Mesut. For his new Poetry Collection Dancing with Pilotes he started writing in english.
* Because laughing is bodily intensive, some refreshments will be offered.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a cultural space, located in Kontula, Helsinki. It is a contested Space and it represents a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking. Impossible Forms are those that erase and facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator. For 2019-2020, Museum of Impossible Forms operates under the curatorial theme of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a Safer Space. We follow a Safer Space policy to create a welcoming, inclusive, awesome environment.
Events at the Museum of Impossible Forms are completely free and accessible without prior booking.
Museum of Impossible Forms is accessible by lift with thresholds up to 4cm on the way. The toilet has no thresholds but is not spacious enough to meet accessibility standards. The nearest accessible toilet is located at Kontula metro station.
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