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Profile Information

Occupation
Performance Artist & Researcher
Bio
Ilka Theurich (based in Helsinki, Finland & Hannover, Germany) is a performance aritst who is centrally concerned with modes of non verbal poetic encounter with strangers.

Theurich has exhibited and performed in a variety of countries and contexts. She works as a researcher, curator and teacher of a broad range of projects, including large-scale events, intimate performances, publications and workshops.
Website
http://ilkatheurich.blogspot.com

Artist Statement

My art practice evolves around the themes of performative context of space, as well as the performative aspect of making and experiencing art. My interest in space and site-specific action stems from my studies in sound art in Germany and Japan, which eventually led me to study 'Live Art and Performance Studies' at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki (TEAK) in Finland.

As a performance artist I am centrally concerned on modes of non verbal poetic encounter with strangers in public places.
 
I take the tradition of site-specific art as a starting point of departure, while addressing social, political and cultural conditions of a site. I create places for negotiation of diverse cultural, physical, and emotional knowledges like the modern speed dating for singles vs. deep encounter in a poetic sense. I aim to provoke passers by to behave and experience a particular social-poetic practice.
 
My thesis is, that the moment of a poetic encounter may irritate, disclose, or unsettle, but at the same time has the potential to be a stimulus to the public space and the residents. This moment has the power to activate, to give shape to public places through actions, and to creat space for shared human experiences.

Ilka Theurich's Blog

ALASTAIR MACLENNAN to be aware of the moment - or the quality of engagement

Posted on April 24, 2011 at 8:00pm 0 Comments

an essay written by Ilka Theurich

 
FIRST ENCOUNTER
While I was looking at the cover of Manuel Vasons book “encounters” for the first…
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TRANSFORMATION from body technique to body knowledge?

Posted on March 2, 2011 at 7:30pm 0 Comments

an essay written by Ilka Theurich

 

The phenomena of intercultural performance is growing worldwide and often analysed through the lens of globalization. But what does it mean in particular for the performer who is working between two or more cultures? How does it change his or her body knowledge also with regard to future…
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ME AND THE BLACK BOX

Posted on February 20, 2011 at 11:30am 0 Comments

a site-specific research and an institutional critique

thoughts about the theatre frame in contemporary performance art 

written by Ilka Theurich  …

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Month of Performance Art-Berlin and Ilka Theurich are now friends
May 8
Ilka Theurich and Dimanche Rouge are now friends
Apr 27
fmmw liked Ilka Theurich's discussion Call for papers, presentations and performances for LAPSody 2011
Dec 4, 2012
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The City of Dream and Future goes to New York !!! at Times Square

June 18, 2012 from 7pm to 10:30pm
You can see my scores @ The Times Square Billboard Premier Event See More
Jun 5, 2012

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At 1:57am on April 23, 2011, Tania Frolova said…
I like your work! It's amazing!
 
 
 

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