Tero Nauha

Tero Nauha is a professor in Live Art and Performance Studies at Uniarts Helsinki, and a performance artist. In 2007 he co-created with political economists and artists the mollecular organization, which researched for experimental forms to rethink value and organization in the context of cognitive capitalism and knowledge production.

He defended his doctoral thesis on schizoanalysis and artistic practices at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts in Helsinki in January 2016.

He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Academy of Finland funded postdoctoral research project, How To Do Things With Performance, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2017.

His primary research interest is in the relationships between economics, artistic research, performative practices, and writing.

He is a member of the Performance Philosophy Network, Performance Studies International Association, and the International Federation for Theatre Research.

In 2015, he published his first fiction novel, Heresy & Provocation, for Swedish publishing house Förlaget. He has worked in various fields of contemporary art since 1995 and presenting extensively in Europe, Americas and Asia, in such places as the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Theatrediscounter in Berlin, CSW Kronika in Bytom, Poland, and Performance Matters in London.

He has actively collaborated with sound artists, performance artists, and in theatre in various contexts globally. In his artistic practice he focuses on the interstices between intangible forms and material cultures. Nauha’s researches the complex narratives that tie together global financialization, its effect on the social sphere, and the cultural knowledge production that takes place in institutions.