Iida Hägglund, Helka Saariniemi, Jenni Räsänen, Vilma Vantola & Eeva-Maaria Halonen: tyttörakkauszine

17 May.

The performing arts designers Iida Hägglund, Helka Saariniemi, Jenni Räsäsen, Vilma Vantola and Eeva-Maaria Halonen have collectively created a stage zine and a performance installation.

The grief of the grieving girl is a resistance in a society that is typically stuck in the idea of presenting girlhood as joyful and fun. For many, girlhood is an experience of otherness, and grief girlhood is a subversion of patriarchy by resting in sadness. The work normalises failed narratives of girlhood and takes a stand against hyperbolic and performance-oriented bossgirl feminism. If girlhood is experienced together, will there be collective understanding, liberation, sincere joy and love?

tyttörakkauszine is an attempt to describe, perform, love and write oneself and one's girlhood, both present and the already forgotten. It opens up a passage into five different experiences rooted in girlhood, as well as into a shared landscape that they form. tyttörakkauszine is a hauntological, breathtaking, dramatic, yet plodding, naïve, melancholic and yet silly sad girl.

Performance information
Iida Hägglund - sound design and music, performance
Helka Saariniemi - set design and performance
Jenni Räsänen - costume design, performance
Vilma Vantola - lighting design, performance
Eeva-Maaria Halonen - dramaturg for performance

The text material and dramaturgy of the performance is collectively created by the working group.

tyttörakkauszine is made in collaboration with the Live Art Society. The artwork is supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, the Kone Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.