Research Catalogue

ENG My doctoral artistic research project (2013-2019) examines choreography as reading practice. In the research, the notion of choreography operates simultaneously as an analytical device, problem to be examined, and an artistic outcome. The primary method for the research is choreographic experimental practice that delves into the process of dynamic place-taking in which the human body couples with surrounding movements, from microscopic to telescopic, without the aim of mastering the movement. The research project contains two examined artistic parts; the first one consists of five choreographic projects and the second materializes choreoreading practice as performance with three performers. The research practice delves into the conditions of movement and choreography through the following transformations: from choreographer to choreoreader from choreographing to choreoreading from grounded embodied choreographic construction to astroembodied choreostruction from human vessel to human atmospheric organism In the framework of choreography studies, the research contributes to the shift and expansion from the historical notion of choreography as writing practice, in which the human body masters the movements to a choreoreading practice. The research project also contributes to the genealogies of site-specific and context-responsive practices, extending the notion of site to outer space. Errata On the cover page of the exposition, the peer review logo of The Federation of Finnish Learned Societes should be ignored as the publication has not undergone anonymous peer review. The logo was inserted by the publishers. FIN Tohtorintutkintoon johtanut taiteellinen tutkimusprojektini (2013-2019) tarkastelee koreografiaa lukemisen praktiikkana. Prosessissa koreografia toimii samanaikaiseseti analyyttisenä välineenä, tutkimuskysymyksenä sekä taiteellisena lopputulemana. Ensisijainen tutkimumetodi on ollut kokeileva koreografinen praktiikka, jossa paikantuminen ja paikan ottaminen toimii taiteellisena strategiana jossa ruumis linkittyy sitä ympäröiviin liikkeisiin mikroskooppisesta teleskooppiseen mittakaavaan ilman liikkeen mestaroinnin tavoitetta. Tutkimusprojekti sisältää kaksi tarkastettua taiteellista osaa; ensimmäinen osa koostuu viidestä koreografisesta projektista ja toinen osa on koreolukemista materialisoiva esitys kolmelle esiintyjälle. Tutkimuspraktiikka tarkastelee liikkeen ja koreografian olosuhteita seuraavin muutoksin: koreografista koreolukijaksi koreografioimisesta koreolukemiseen maadoittuneesta ruumiillisesta koreografisesta konstruktiosta astroruumiilliseen koreostruktioon ruumis-säiliöstä atmosfääriseen ruumiiseen Tutkimus asettuu siihen koreografiaa koskevaan historialliseen jatkumoon, joka laajentaa koreografian ymmärrystä kirjoittamisen praktiikasta, jossa liike ymmärretään mestaroituna materiaalina. Tutkimuksen esittelemässä koreolukemisen praktiikassa ruumis kytkeytyy liikkeeseen taiteellisessa prosessissa toisenlaisen asenteen kautta. Tutkimus sijoittuu myös paikka-, tila- ja kontekstisidonnaisen taiteen historian jatkumoon venyttämällä paikan ja tilan käsitteen ulkoavaruuden mittakaavaan. Errata Ekposition avaussivulla oleva Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnan vertaisarviointitunnus tulisi jättää huomiotta, sillä tätä julkaisua ei ole anonyymisti vertaisarvioitu. Virhe on julkaisijan.

pompom A project by Simo Kellokumpu in collaboration with Vincent Roumagnac & Nao Yazawa

For the first research episode in the new artist-researcher-run space Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone in Helsinki, Vincent Roumagnac chose to address, with a sense of urgency, the viral issue, at a time when we have entered the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in order to, collectively, try to understand more, from various perspectives, experiences, and sensitivities, what this virus is doing to our stage practices. Initially, we thought to organize a seminar in Helsinki, but the general situation in which we are does not allow it any longer. Hence, this proposal. But not as a Plan B. Rather an alternative form and attempt of making « sense » together. All the contributors work in relation to the « stage », through the lens of scenography, dramaturgy, choreography, directing, acting, performing, dancing, reflecting... They were invited to respond to the call with a short videographic object, in which they address the (notion of) virus in relation to their ongoing scenic practice. An online and open access collective publication is launched on Työhuone pages on the Research Catalogue (International database for artistic research) on December 11 2020. A celebrative display and live broadcast on SN will also takes place Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone on December 12 2020. Contributors: Hanna Ahti, Ignacio De Antonio, Horacio Banega in collaboration with Eduardo Safigueroa, Mai Endo, Simo Kellokumpu, The Institute Of Interconnected Realities (Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Marie-Louise Stentebjerg & Jonathan Bonnici), Carl Lavery in collaboration with Simon Whitehead and Lee Hasball, Maiju Loukola, Elina Pirinen, Vincent Roumagnac, Charlotta Ruth, Stacey Sacks, Carolina E. Santo, and Marc Salicrú Julià

Astrotrilogy Documentation

ENG SPACETALKS is a dialogue between choreographer-researcher Simo Kellokumpu and philosopher Tuukka Perhoniemi. The dialogue considers what kind of starting points astronomy opens for both the artist and the philosopher. The motivation for the discussion is to address the conditions of life, being human, and making art in the light of contemporary astronomical knowledge. The goal of both makers is to find new perspectives on the human experience of the Universe. FIN Avaruudesta on keskustelu, jossa koreografi, tutkija Simo Kellokumpu ja Ursan tähtiopas ja filosofi Tuukka Perhoniemi pohtivat millaisia lähtökohtia tähtitiede tällä hetkellä avaa niin taiteilijalle kuin filosofille. Keskustelun motivaationa on käsitellä ihmisenä olemisen, elämän ja taiteen tekemisen ehtoja nykyisen astronomisen tietämyksen valossa. Kummankin tekijän tavoitteena on löytää uusia näkökulmia inhimilliseen kokemukseen maailmankaikkeudesta.

OUMUAMUA _Gravity Escape (...) It arrived on October 19, 2017. By that time, the flies had already disappeared and several swallows had collided with my bedroom window. October evenings were warm. Rick Deckard’s words brush softly my lips: “Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger.”_ Oumuamua_Gravity Escape is a choreographic installation that shifts the geo-centered human place-taking towards interplanetary scales and speeds. The work amplifies the history of site-sensitive practices by projecting the notion of place to Outer Space. It brings together speculative fiction, terraforming imaginaries, and the choreographer’s experiments on astroembodiments. Spotted in October 2017, Oumuamua is the first interstellar body that moves through the Solar System. The work premieres in May 2021, when the vegetal and other organic life forms unfold in the northern hemisphere of the Earth. The work is part of Kellokumpu's artistic-research postdoc -project "xeno/exo/astro-choreoreadings". Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Performing Arts Research Centre, TUTKE, Theatre Academy University of the Arts Helsinki

Intervention in the symposium "Interdisciplinary art in the 20's" Copenhagen, Nov. 2021 Toaster platform/Husets Teater