Photographs: Hmm © Timo Wright
Hmm
Artist: Sonja Jokiniemi
Country: Finland
Type: Dance / Performance
Year of creation: 2015
An intimate, dependent, sensual, at times violent and fragmentary experience of the universe. In Hmm, Sonja Jokiniemi investigates playful processes of language formation as linguistic actions: speech sounds, physicality, touch, repetition and accumulation. Instead of signifying, her language fumbles, gropes around and makes noises, eventually forming a collage-like, chaotic, strangely musical whole.
Hmm is principally about search and disorder: the objects and the human figure set in the space engage in a dialogue and mutual exploration. Feeling her way, shuffling, stumbling through a world that seems to have no cohesion, a confusing universe in which objects and sounds seem to have no meaning, a narrative emerges.
Hmm explores the transition from chaos to order, from senselessness to meaning, from indiscriminate sound to language. An intimate, dependent, sensual, at times violent and fragmentary experience of the universe.
Hmm is principally about search and disorder: the objects and the human figure set in the space engage in a dialogue and mutual exploration. Feeling her way, shuffling, stumbling through a world that seems to have no cohesion, a confusing universe in which objects and sounds seem to have no meaning, a narrative emerges.
Hmm explores the transition from chaos to order, from senselessness to meaning, from indiscriminate sound to language. An intimate, dependent, sensual, at times violent and fragmentary experience of the universe.
CREDITS
Concept, direction & performance
Sonja Jokiniemi
Music composition
Natalia Dominguez Rangel
Visual design & dramaturgy
Miguel Angel Melgares
Light design
Katinka Marac
Costume
Janneke Raaphorst
Co-production
Eastern Finland Regional Dance Centre, Frascati Theatre, Zodiak, Workspace Brussels
Promotion & Touring Producer
Something Great
Co-production
Eastern Finland Regional Dance Centre, Frascati Theatre, Zodiak Centre for New Dance, Workspace Brussels
With the support
Dampfzentrale Bern
Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux
Kutomo
Les Urbaines
STUK Leuven