15.04.2023
My fingers are not as tender today as they were yesterday, not at all like yesterday, nothing is like yesterday, and that’s the beauty of it all I guess. I am starting to feel there is something kept in the friction, secrets maybe. I am thinking how half of the journey is forgotten, half of the giggles, touches and smells.
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Hot hands, tender cheeks. Oh how we were laughing and probably for totally different reasons. Everything was cracking in the right places at the wrong times. I grabbed some imaginary buttocks and then dropped them on the ground one by one, you were already gone.
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It would be so nice to trickle a bit with you.
Trickle in cycles, trickle to waste, to leak all over.
And not to waste for real but just to pretend. To be a trickler.
All this just streamed to my mind now.
We could trickle something and look at it pour, together. Quite intimate, don’t you think?
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I touch faces, stones, whatever life brings on my way.
intimate expectations is a performance that has gotten its spark from a desire to surrender to different kinds of states, echoes, traces and frequencies of touch. We have been asking ourselves what kinds of yearnings and expectations for intimacy we carry, what these look like, and how these could possibly be twisted. Intimacy in this work doesn’t only refer to bareness, something private or fragile. Though it can refer to this, too.
2023, Nykytaidetila Kutomo, Turku
Choreography and performance: Tuuli Vahtola and Ella Skoikka
Lighting design: Luca Sirviö
Set and costume design: Kaisa Rajahalme
Sound design: Tiikka Drama
Technician: Irene Lehtonen
Production: Ehkä-production, Ella Skoikka and Tuuli Vahtola
Residency: Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku)
Supporters: Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Kari Mattila Foundation
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