Perspectives on art and activism
Discussion on Saturday 12th of April at 4:10 pm
How do art and politics intertwine, and in what contexts? She was a friend of someone else director Gosia Wdowik and Homa Shokri, an Iranian performance artist living in Helsinki will discuss the relationship between art and activism. Dramaturg Pauli Patinen will moderate the discussion. which will be in English and free of charge.
Discussion after the She was a friend of someone else performance on Saturday, April 12 at AHJO Exhibition Space
Discussion in English, free entry.
Gosia Wdowik
Gosia Wdowik is a theatre maker and active member of GILDIA, The Union of Polish Theatre Makers. Her heart is based in Poland, but her imagination is always somewhere else. During her Master Studies at DAS Theatre (2020–2022), she worked with the topic of burnout and explored the space between exhaustion and agency by implementing methods from activism into her artistic practice. Her main question was: how to create both theatre and change from a place of exhaustion? In May 2023, her graduation work She was a friend of someone else premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in May 2023.
In her recent performance Shame (NOWY TEATR, Warsaw) she explored social shame connected with the working-class origins in her own family, over three generations of women.
Homa Shokri
Homa Shokri is a Helsinki-based performance and video artist originally from Iran. Shokri graduated from the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2024 with a Master's degree in theatre and drama. Her work explores political violence and the uninhabitability of bodies, often drawing from personal and collective experiences of oppression. With a background in dramaturgy and directing, her practice challenges dominant narratives about how fear and violence mobilise bodies, engaging with themes such as necropolitics and resistance.
Photo: Antti Rintala
She was a friend of someone else
With a powerful dramaturgy and a minimalist direction, Polish theatre-maker Gosia Wdowik explores the link between burnout and activism.
Fri 11.4. at 7 pm
Sat 12.4. at 3 pm
&Louhi, Espoo Cultural Centre
Kulttuuriaukio 2
