Maire Karuvuori: performace in Kankaanpää in spring 2013, duration five minutes. Images by Amandus Pedaspea.
It is almost impossible and also unnecessary to use performance as a means of thought manipulation and preaching. After all, the audience will detect the essential in the performance. There is no need to emphasize or cover something. Previously, I made great efforts to find an important topic. Now I can appreciate even those things that are part of my everyday life. For example, I can make a performance on a demented female pastor who is afraid of Obama and Osama and who makes calculations about the number of the Beast, because I know something about it. This is how the series “Aino-Maria Myllykoski’s Truths” was created.
I don’t make personal therapy performances but my performances are always about communication. Intuition, trust, courage and love guide me in my work and love is the most important component which gives rise to everything else. I treat people and my topics gently and with love. At the same time I feel that I draw a lot of love back. I’m also gentle to myself. I think that the most wonderful and thereby also the best work I could do would make the audience feel that I’m giving a present to them.
I have had performances which last several hours and where the audience takes a participating role and everything is based on interaction. On the other hand, I have made video performances and stage performances with show elements, where the audience is at the receiving end. However, the audience is always the reason for a performance.
Maire Karuvuori was born in Helsinki in 1984. See her homepage.
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