Hold yr ache 2 my ache
Zeynab Kirikou Gueye & Lau Lukkarila
Slow burner with a heated heart. Enraged, more salt. As unready as stubborn. With Hold yr ache 2 my ache, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila take their unfolding collaboration to the black box. Joined by performer Marika Peura in a scenography created by artists Ju Aichinger and Val Holfeld, sound, dance and gut feelings meet as expressive protagonists. The piece researches the emotionality of the body and how it gushes out of different social and historical contexts. With Laura Hähnel behind the logistics, the artistic process is accompanied by a co-working care team mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni as racial awareness doula and Claire Lefèvre as performance doula. In a fountain-like dramaturgy, an asymmetrical spillover of embodied as well as fictional feelings surge from restraints of structural oppression and the alluring appeals of affect. Lowkey annoyed and flirty. Audaciously cringe. Overstimulated, feeling it all.
Artistic direction Lau Lukkarila Sound design, live sound, conceptual collaboration Zeynab Kirikou Gueye Performance Marika Peura and Lau Lukkarila Stage, costume, light Ju Aichinger and Val Holfeld Racial awareness doula mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni Performance doula Claire Lefèvre Production Laura Hähnel
Coproduction of not your babe and Tanzquartier Wien. With kind support from the City of Vienna Culture Department; the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports Austria; Mad House Helsinki and Creative Crossroads – Life Long Burning, a project of Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
Biographies
Zeynab Kirikou Gueye (they/them) (*26.5.1999, Prague) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vienna. Their practice is influenced by their research in postcolonial studies and the abilities to dream of visionary futurisms amidst social depression. Since 2017, they have been articulating their artistic practices mainly through the study of music, performance, and the politics of the dancefloor, and through collaboration with artists and researchers on interdisciplinary and politically involved projects.
Lau Lukkarila (they/them) is a choreographer and performer based in Vienna, born by the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland. They explore awkwardness, visceral interactions, power dynamics and the charms and demands of affect. Likes: accountability, music, feelings, words, attentive touch. Dislikes: stagnant paradigms, “but there is no scientific proof”, pricks.
Marika Peura (she/her) is a choreographer and dancer based in Helsinki. She works with the emotional, poetic and political landscapes that unfold from the experientiality of the body. Her previous research focused on the intimacy of the dancing body; studying the emotional, sensual, sexual and social energies in the intersection of club/rave dance & culture and contemporary choreography. Peura graduated from MA choreography program from the Uniarts Helsinki in 2020.
Ju Aichinger (they/them) is a Vienna-based artist working across ceramics, installation, costume and painting. Since two years they mostly work with clay, which offers them the possibility to create familiar and abstract objects, integrating visual references of fashion, pop-, queer-culture and everyday life. An underlying focus point in Ju’s work is the involvement with various forms of identification, society and self, that seek to capture how we think about notions of expression, criticism and influence.
Val Holfeld (they/them, no pronouns) is a freelance worker based in Vienna and treats each project like a stomach. In their curatorial and set & costume design work, they reflect on pop- and queer culture through playfulness. In 2023 Val founded the Off Space Kollektiv Zirkusgasse together with four artists in Vienna. They worked as a production manager at Schauspielhaus Wien in cooperation with Wien Modern (2023) and have collaborated with set & costume designers in various plays mainly in German speaking theaters.
mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni (they/them) The interdisciplinary artistic practice of mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni focuses on empowerment and collaborative healing processes. Inspired by everyday life experiences, de-colonial and anti-racist methods are used and elaborated to take up space in diverse public and private spaces, with non-binary, queer, Black aesthetics. Moving bodies, self-presentation and continuous energy exchange as well as music, text, painting, styling and sculpture are the main components for these complex creations, representing visible signs of change.
Claire Lefèvre (she/her) Claire is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna. She is researching the archetype and working methods of a performance doula, a role imagined to disinvisibilize care work in the context of performance making. Claire’s work with text spans from poetry to grant applications, at times flirting with performance criticism, stand-up comedy or queer feminist theory.
Laura Hähnel (she/they) is a Berlin-based producer combines their cultural and media education from Hochschule Merseburg with a commitment to social engagement and event organization. They began their career with diverse projects like Hilfebus Leipzig and curating events in clubs in Leipzig and Dresden. After gaining experience as a production assistant at CTM Festival, they advanced to leading roles at festival venues such as Berghain. Currently, they work in art, festival and tour productions as well as contribute to festivals like WHOLE, Melt, and Performing Arts Festival Berlin.
Photograph by Hanna Fasching and @dashugar, collage by Lau Lukkarila
SCHEDULE
24.10. at 19
25.10. at 19
26.10. at 19
LOCATION
Mad House Helsinki, Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki
DURATION
approx. 50-70 min
LANGUAGE
English, Finnish and Czech
PLEASE NOTE
Loud noises, theatre sound, flashing lights. No late arrivals.
ON ACCESSIBILITY
AGE RECOMMENDATION
12+
TICKETS
5-30€
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