How to work with chaos, absurdity and site-specific creation? Pasi Mäkelä invites you to take a look into his artistic process and share the principles that have shaped his most important works. Through improvisation, physical theatre and sound art, he seeks ways to combine structure with freedom and to give shape to even seemingly random situations. What is the place of ritual, chance or instinct in performance work? And when is it best to just let things flow?

The artist talk will include a workshop inspired by the FUGK project - Finno-Ugric Garage Kabuki, which combines elements of Japanese kabuki with garage aesthetics and Finno-Ugric roots. Pasi Mäkelä works with the body as an instrument, voice as music and space as a scenario. Come explore the boundaries between the rational and the irrational, between order and madness - and find out what happens when you venture into the unknown.

Running time: cca 150 minutes

Artist talk will be held in English.

Bio

Pasi Mäkelä is a Finnish performance, conceptual artist and musician based in Prague. In his work he moves between improvisation, body art, sound art and site-specific performances. His latest projects, including Sabotanic Garden - Gardens of Death and Walrus Vampire Show, show his unique approach to theatre and performance. As a musician, he is active in the Prague improvisation scene and in the band The Spermbankers. From 1998 to 2002 he studied theatre directing at the Academy of Arts in Turku. Between 2012 and 2017 he performed with his solo physical performance Tonttu in Slovakia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Austria and the USA and with his long-term site-specific project Buto Uuno Turhabuto (2004-2008) mainly in Finland, but also in the Czech Republic and France. He is currently a teacher at DAMU in Prague.