MEDIATHEK

Departing from my ontological quests; ‘what am I?’ and ‘what are we?’, the focal point in my practice is ‘what is being a human?’ attempting to see every ‘human-ness’ equally important. I consider the awareness and understandings of our existence, in relation to our surroundings, would be the key to important changes in our perceptions of human life, which I believe will benefit us as well as all other beings. Since 1997 I have been investigating on the notions of ‘the body’. After the first encounter with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writing I was deeply influenced by existential phenomenological thinking. Lately, I am undergoing a research with an ontological conception inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical term ‘Being Singular Plural’ to investigate the inseparable relation between ‘we’ and ‘I’. Having had a Budo class with Akira Hino in 2008 lately I am very much interested in Budo. My recent practice is the attempt to completely fuse my oriental roots and Western perspectives in order to form a more proper view on ‘being a human’ in this world. After the study in Nottingham I founded the idea of ‘theatre as a medium’. This was my conclusion that concepts of theatre could hold any aspects of performativity within the frame of everyday life and beyond, which came up after the intensive questioning about the boarder(s) between art and everyday life. Based on the idea of ‘theatre as a medium’ I believe art, especially performance can be a great means for enriching our perspectives and deepening our understanding of life. Types of my work vary from a one-minute frantic dance performance piece to three and a half hours of standing still performance-protest (against NATO bombing in 1999), from outdoor open-improvisations to carefully structured black box theatre pieces. I work both as a solo artist and with others. I also work on video for others’ and my own work. In 2004 Anna Torkkel and I formed Ehkä-production. (Quelle: www.ehka.net) / jst