When performance
Posts from students and staff of the Live Art and Performance Studies MA programme.
About this blog
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LAPS graduates receive Kone Foundation grants
Congratulations to Dash Che, Minerva Juolahti and Suvi Tuominen for receiving grants for their projects.
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The Urban Pigeon Project as a part of LAPSODY festival is where we are gathering for rehearsing hospitalities
Written by Ladapha Sophonkunkit, student in Live Art and Performance Studies.
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Bergen?
Written by Stefanía Ólafsdóttir, student in Live Art and Performance Studies.
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New curriculum for LAPS MA programme, but why now?
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Imagining Contemporary Art Otherwise, Lumbung One
Written by Onur Tayranoğlu, student in Live Art and Performance Studies.
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ANTI festival 2022
Written by Tina Jeranko, student in Live Art and Performance Studies.
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Visiting the LAPS programme as an exchange student
Written by Sooyoung Park, an exchange student in Live Art and Performance Studies.
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A moving pillar, a living archive
A one-week residency project at Helsinki Central Library Oodi facilitated by Urbanapa. Written by Yun-Chen Chang, student in Live Art and Performance Studies.
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The posture of impermanence
An exhibition on live art practices and education in Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, 12.11.2021-23.1.2022.
About this blog
The master’s programme in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) was launched in 2001 as a Finnish-language degree programme, Esitystaiteen ja -teorian koulutusohjelma. Since 2013, LAPS has been an English-language, international and residential MA programme based in Helsinki. The programme combines critical thinking with experimentation in artistic work and artistic research. The objective of the programme is to enable artists coming from different environments, classes, cultures and upbringings to focus on their work, develop their research and map out the future of their artistic practice. The central question for contemporary performance concerns the futures of performance and cultures at large —on the exploration of the possible futures, ecologies, technologies, cultures and economies of performance. These themes are widely explored over the duration of the two-year programme. This blog discloses the various aspects of the LAPS programme, from individual notions and statements by individual students to narrations of themes or topics of a course or providing background in preparation for a public performance event. The blog posts reflect the various collaborations, projects, or individual artistic processes taking place within the LAPS programme.
