Maria Nurmela & Vesa Loikas (FI)

"Entanglement" is an interdisciplinary artistic project of the intricate connections between an oak forest, its trees, vegetation, animals and human beings. Using contemporary dance, moving images and sound design to better understand our place in the biosphere, dance artist Maria Nurmela, photographer/filmmaker Vesa Loikas and composer Jane Sheldon turn to the ancient oak grove in Kaarina Vaarniemi. Their artistic exploration will result in a multichannel installation, an aesthetic-embodied ecosystem in which nature, human biology and the layered reality of the meta-level (e.g. AI created visuals) intertwine in a networked narrative, aimed to stimulate our senses and emotions – and prompt contemplation about our role in preserving biodiversity.

Artist / Company Bio

Maria Nurmela often works with interdisciplinary interfaces and different performance spaces, and regularly collaborates with Vesa Loikas. Their short films have attracted attention with their original visual and choreographic language in which movement, physicality and cinematography intertwine to create a complete dramaturgy.

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