Punch Up! is a regular drag, burlesque, stand-up, spoken word, and rap variety show that’s unapologetically queer and underground, but open and accessible for all. Emphasising acts that are political, vulnerable and commercially questionable, we are openly anti-fascist,… Read More
Starting in 2015 at Mad House Helsinki, Feminist Comedy Night carved out a place for stand-up comedy that doesn’t rely on patriarchy for its punchlines. Since its beginning, it’s featured local and international guests, moved from Mad House… Read More
Audiences at Feminist Comedy Night kept pestering James Lórien MacDonald to “do a workshop or a course or something” for beginners in stand-up comedy, and Feminist Comedy Academy is the result. FCA is a short course led by James… Read More
In 2012, I and Aarni Korpela created a game/performance crossover out of a fake pop-up dating agency. We ran the piece three times in Helsinki and also in Oslo, Tromsø, and Copenhagen. The full piece runs over 5… Read More
“Post-performance selfie. Subject: the uncanny valley + national identity. I feel a bit dream-of-electric-sheep. The idea with the valley is that as robots and androids look, sound, and move more human we empathise with them more and more…. Read More
Itäminen / Germination, 2009 Part of the Taiteen tiet site-specific summer installation along Hiidentie, from Salo to Rekijoki, Finland. This project had a number of parts, but the chief public performance involved two mailboxes installed at either end… Read More
“Gender Euphoria is kind of a comedy snapshot of transitioning; it’s a solo show about the process I went through. But it’s also a place where I get to joke about the really messy areas of identity and… Read More
“The forces that continue to sculpt my life encounter each other in this installation: identity meets legality, sexual meets mechanical, and medical meets the curation of the self-image.” Opened April 21, 2016 at Love & Money, curated by… Read More
Conflict of a body in discomfort. What has been added, what has been removed. What has NOT been removed (his agency, his consent, his freedom to fantasise). What you’re seeing here is a man… he’s been practicing BDSM… Read More
