Oulu – Dancing on the Margins of Climate Change

Dance in the Time of Coronavirus – article from Dance Info Finland

Tanja Råman and John Collingswood from TaikaBox write about creative strategies one must adopt while working on an international dance project under the restrictions of the current COVID-19 pandemic. What can be done when performances and workshops are cancelled? As sensory experiences – essential for dance artists – are restricted, how to respond to theContinue reading “Dance in the Time of Coronavirus – article from Dance Info Finland”

Oulu Research Online

Towards the end of March 2020, TaikaBox had planned to host a 3-day research seminar for the Dance Artists in Barents project. Due to the global restrictions in travel and gathering imposed to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus, it was not possible for the artists to travel from Sweden, Norway, Germany and RussiaContinue reading “Oulu Research Online”

Dancing together in 5 countries from your living room

I would like to reflect a little on todays virtual work day as well as the general situation and feeling of things happening in and around us right now. Because of COVID-19 we are pretty much out of work as are most of all the other freelancers and artists we know. We are also quaranteenedContinue reading “Dancing together in 5 countries from your living room”

Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds

Information has been used in artistic practises for quite some time. For simplicity’s sake in this post I mostly talk about information (or data) visualisation and sonification (changing data to sound). This should be thought of as a smaller subset of a bigger, amorphous field of creative practices, often referred to as Information Arts, orContinue reading “Tomi Knuutila: Dances with Datafeeds”

Oulu Research Days: Monday 23rd March

Unfortunately, due to the current situation with the Covid-19 virus alert, the Oulu Research days have been cancelled and we will conduct research online with Skype meetings and working on this blog.

Tony Rice-Perttunen

Tony will be running a session with us in Oulu in March. He has set two tasks for the artists in preparation for his workshop. 1 Devote a few minutes, at least weekly – preferably daily – in concentrated intention.Your intention will be to call upon your deepest creative self.You must call it with allContinue reading “Tony Rice-Perttunen”