Ilze Mazpane

Ilze Mazpane is a performance artist from Riga, Latvia, with a background in philosophy, experimental theatre, visual communication, art education, and creative writing. In her work, Ilze seeks freedom from the tyranny of clock time and therefore explores pure duration (A. Bergson), kairos or the right moment, the right balance (Aristotle), and the concept of flow (M. Csikszentmihalyi).

Eero Yli-Vakkuri

Eero Yli-Vakkuri (b.1981) is a recovering survivalist whose work focuses on public spaces. In the past he made annoying street interventions which made people uncomfortable, presently he is advancing sustainable design through campaigns, workshops and artistic presentations. He prefers to work in groups and to develop antidisciplinary collaborations with specialists from different fields.

Alyssa Coffin

Alyssa is an interdisciplinary artist from the USA, based in Helsinki, Finland. She has a master’s in Time and Space Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Her work includes writing, spoken word, performance, moving image, and site-responsive structures. She collaborates with animate materials from the land to create primal structures for the body to remerge and be in dialogue with the earth and spirit. Her practice is grounded in attention, silence, and sensory embodied engagement.

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niko wearden

niko wearden (he/they) is a British performance artist who lives in helsinki now. At the moment, they have a practice of mostly refusing to talk about their practice. niko tends to their body in water, lying on the floor, ecological grief and waiting with his kin. He doesn’t want to wait alone anymore. niko will graduate in July 2025 from their master's in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) at the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. They are looking forward to welcoming audiences to their thesis production later this spring.

Clair Le Couteur

Dr Clair Le Couteur (they/them) is a visually impaired, non-binary vocalist, artist and scholar. They explore voice and folk heritage through performance and research. Clair has a 3+ octave range and is a specialist in overtone technique, performing and teaching internationally at a wide range of venues including music festivals, museums, universities, theatres and galleries. They received the British Music Collection’s 2021 LGBTQ+ Composers Award, the 2022 George Butterworth Award and the 2022 RNIB Elizabeth Eagle-Bott Award. Clair’s PhD project ‘The Fictive Museum’ (RCA 2017) explores the spaces between fact and fiction in museums and archives.