2025 BAD ARCHITECT
“Welcome to the playground of urban planning and installation that combines performance and community art. The architect’s workstation is located in Korjaamo’s workshop space, where urban planning innovations are discussed wearing architect’s glasses. How to turn the city into utopian living?”
/ Käänne Festival, Korjaamo, Helsinki
Game-performance for Käänne Festival in January 2025. Solo work combining workshop and performance.
Picture: Henri Tapani Salonen, 2025
2024 M – MERKINTÖJÄ YHDEN MALMILAISEN TAPAUKSESTA
“Helsingin Kaupunginteatterin ja Q-teatterin ensimmäinen yhteistyöesitys M – merkintöjä yhden malmilaisen tapauksesta saa ensi-iltansa Malmilla 30. elokuuta. Esitys on osa alueellista Pääroolissa Malmi -taidehanketta. Eri puolilla Malmia tapahtuva esitys kysyy, kenellä on valta päättää, mihin kenenkin tulisi oma elämänsä käyttää ja kuka päättää, miten täällä ollaan?”
/ Helsinki City Theatre, performance location Malmi, Helsinki
Facilitator and designer for a set design workshop for locals as part of participatory theatre play in Malmi area. Performance made together with professionals and amateur theatre makers. Collaboration between Helsinki City Theatre, Q-Theatre and Architecture School Arkki.
2024 SPACE X
“Designer lead space adventure Space X heads towards Mars and the perfect society.”
/ Theater Academy, Uniarts Helsinki
Scenography, performer and performance maker in a working group for designer lead performance. Part of Theater Academy Bachelor’s projects in spring 2024.
Link to performance video: https://vimeo.com/1048003958/7b5b85e412
2023 ONUR TAYRANOĞLU, PLUG’N’PLAY
/ MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre“Unpacking the different degrees of that which is private, semi-private or public in regards to the physical and conceptual organisations of intimacy; Plug’n’Play is an ongoing performative inquiry imagined through cybersexual practices being taken out of their usual context and presented elsewhere, translated else how.”
Spatial design for a live installation. Performed in Muu Gallery. Working with latex and metal structure.
2023 MILLA JARKO, TIIKERI
/ Cirko, Center for New Cirkus, Helsinki (January 2023)
/ Studio Pasila, Helsinki City Theatre (May 2023)
/ Forum Box, Gatt Festival (August 2024)“TIIKERI – The (some@bility) performance piece i.e. a concerto and a biennianal for The Stage for contemporary performance and other spaces.”
Visual and space design for a contemporary circus performance together with Milla Jarko.
COSTUME WORKSHOP
/ Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki
2024 HUMANOIDI. For Recovery Laboratory 10 year anniversary event.
2024 INFESTATION. Collaboration between Queer community of the UniArts Q.U.N.T. and MYÖS Collective.
2023 CYBORG WASTELAND. Collaboration between Queer community of the UniArts Q.U.N.T. and MYÖS Collective.
The costume workshop is a non-stop craft workshop where recycled material is the starting point for building an outfit. The costume workshop has been organized as part of three event evenings, where the creation of the costume has been part of a common theme. The community workshop encourages crafting and meeting, the task is to create an outfit for yourself that transforms the participant into a new kind of alter ego.
Duration: The recommended duration is several hours during which you can arrive and leave. For example, during a performance program.
2021 MACHINE FOR LIVING
/ Merihaka, Helsinki
A site-specific participatory performance-game.
2019 TULEVAISUUDEN OSTARI
/ Kontula Library, Helsinki
Exhibition of architecture master’s thesis: Suburban Community Center.
2019 ITSE TEHTY WORKSHOP
/ Kontula Electronic Music Festival, Helsinki
Architecture game workshop as part of Kontula Electronic music festival in May 2019. Granted by Finnish Cultural Foundation
Education:
2013-2018 Architect MA. School of Architecture, University of Oulu.
Anna Pietilä 