When performance
Posts from students and staff of the Live Art and Performance Studies MA programme.
About this blog
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Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going?
Xiaole Wang started studying at LAPS in 2023. Since she arrived at Uniarts Helsinki, the cultural and contextual differences have been obvious. This article presents some thoughts and reflections on encountering cultural differences.
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Unorthodox friendships, catholic guilt and queer resolutions
LAPS MA student George Rallis writes as a genderqueer person on their experience of the energy in Helsinki and their collaboration with artist Kajetan Wójcik in workshop in Oronsko, Poland.
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LAPS graduates receive Kone Foundation working grants
LAPS programme has reason to gratulate Stefanía Olafsdottír and Onur Tayranoğlu who received a grant from Kone Foundation to develop and continue their artistic practices in 2024 and 2025.
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New LAPS MA students 2023
New LAPS MA students started their journey in September 2023. The autumn has been busy and the first time this year’s cohort has been able to find a moment together on camera was at the end of a course with students from the Academy of Art Szczecin in Warsaw in December.
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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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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 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. This blog discloses the various aspects of the LAPS programme, from individual notions and statements by students to providing background for LAPS MA thematic interests.
