Performance beyond the stage
Site-responsive, participatory and physical practices for museums, galleries and public spaces
DREAMSCAPES IN TRANSIT at Be(a)ware Butoh Festival (Helsinki, 2025). A performance-journey, morphing into specificity of a cityscape where it unfolds
MUNDANE.MAGIC in Tallinn public spaces and Viimsi Artium Contemporary Art Gallery (Estonia, 2024). A participatory location-fluid event, a series of one-on-one interactions and collective gatherings, nestled within secret locations and in public spaces
CONCORDIA in EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Finland, 2022). A butoh performance as an accompaniment to the Chiharu Shiota and Daniel Buren exhibitions
SOMETHING ELSE at Bar Musta Kissa (Helsinki, 2026). An expansive night of improvised music and physical performance with Viktor Toikkanen (electronics) and Wilson Tanner Smith (cello)
A THIN RED LINE in Gallery Myymälä2 (Helsinki, 2020). A (video)performance co-created with Maria Bayat. In response to the exhibition by Edwina Goldstone “MOTHER – A Thin Red Line”
DESCANSOS at Quantum Critic, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Gallery Myymälä2 (Helsinki & St Petersburg, 2020). A video performance with a live component at Gallery Myymälä2, co-created with Maria Bayat
LISTENING AND LIMINALITY in Berlin public spaces (Germany, 2025). An artistic research process, a methodology-in-training for an upcoming international performance-journey series tested and documented in collaboration with Misia Żurek
BORDER CROSSING in Kunsthaus Jägermeister (Helsinki, 2023). A solo live art intervention into Finissage’23 - moving through butoh, interaction and provocative spoken word
SIDEBAR OF SHAME in Viimsi Artium Contemporary Art Gallery, directed by Elo Järv (Estonia, 2024). A physical, verbal and visual journey that examines the feeling of being watched in a gallery settings
PRESENCE Y in Globe Art Point (Helsinki, 2021) & Compostival (Peniche, Portugal, 2022). Solo performance, a durational butoh exploration of presence in pedestrian world
BALTIC WAVES on Hietsu beach (Helsinki, 2021). An interactive movement and live guitar performance co-created with Yunjia Liu for pop-up events in public spaces across Helsinki
A RANDOM WHISPER in gallery Oksasenkatu 11 (Helsinki, 2021). Co-created with Aino Johansson to be set in her exhibition “In the Middle of Everything and All”
COSAS Y TIEMPO at the Festival NUN Local (Spain, 2018). An interactive micro-theatre piece, a performance-journey on the streets of Vigo, co-created with Lucía Sánchez
DAZED at the Night of the Arts, directed by Petra Haapio (Helsinki, 2019). A feminist devised performance exploring violence against women, performed in public space in front of the University of Helsinki
MY BODY.MY REBELLION & BODY EXPERIENCE(D) at Gallery Myymälä2 (Helsinki, 2019). A series of multidisciplinary performances by the UtoUto duo (Katia Skylar and Anna Olkinuora), featuring artworks by Virpi Velin and Erika de Martino
Shared Frequencies Pixelache Festival
20-25 October 2026
UPCOMING
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE REALLY PAY ATTENTION?
A two-day workshop led by Katia Skylar, 20 & 22 October 2026
Through movement, attention and improvisation, participants explore ways of perceiving, responding and creating together. Towards the end of the workshop, participants are invited to create and share a collective improvised performance.
CATERING. KORISTAJA TULI!
A short film by Elo Järv, Katia Skylar and Maria Bayat, 24 October 2026
A short film and live performative intervention that breaks the boundary between screen and audience, turning the screening into an encounter between the fictional and the real.