Research Catalogue

the audience: drafts 1-x > is a series of experiments and expositions premiering in various venues and contexts > is more or less connected to the medium of performance and poses the audience as a question > considers the creation, or exposure, of a collectivity; a receptive, attentive many

Tuomas Laitinen is a doctoral candidate at Tutke, the Performing Arts Research Center of Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. The subject of his doctoral research is the audience: what is the audience? Why is the audience? How to be an audience? In the Research Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2019 Tuomas will engage in two projects: 1) creating a series of phenomenological etudes that focus on the phenomenon of audiencing. 2) observing the construction and opening of the Research Pavilion as a durational performance.

Through Phenomena Themselves Schedule

the second letter in the series of phenomenological etudes focuses on observing the explicit and implicit rules of our research environment.

What is an audience?

This is a workspace for the creation of some scores for the domestic space, in the context of a working group preparing a performance called "patch the sky with 5 colored stones".

Tästä löytyy väitöstutkimukseni lähdemateriaali: - esitykset, joihin olen osallistunut yleisön jäsenenä elokuusta 2017 lähtien sekä - kirjallisuus Here are the sources of my doctoral research: - performances, which I have attended as an audience member since August 2017 - literature

This exposition contains the textual materials of Audience Body, an artistic research performance that takes place at the Zodiak Stage, Cable Factory, Helsinki on the 10th, 12th and 13th of November 2022. The performance is part of the programs of Reality Research Center and Moving in November festival.

This is an apparatus designed to address the issue of a shared place in these times of distance and displacement. It aims to take sensible slices of multiple places and compose them into a site somewhere else.