Emitting Things
Emitting Things is a project that delivered several artistic outputs during 2019-2022 on stage and gallery contexts as well as in the internet. The combining web between the outputs is choreographer-dancer Lin Da’s practice where they looked for mindful and meaningful ways to work with things, objects and matter, other than human body. In the emit solo-work (2019) they were busy with investigating the possibilities of physical dialogues between human body and more-than-human bodies. In emit_duet (2020) the focus and the choreographic question was on how to emphasize the materiality of things and the stratum of time through the human body (which in comparison to many non-human entities exists only for a short while) .
emit is a solo-work (2019) that looked for material and immaterial manifestations of the English word raw (a word that indicates unreadiness and a state of being undone). In this project the main focuses of interest were rhythms, directions and affects that those material beings propose to the human-body. How does it feel to be raw? In the work the human-body tries to situate itself among the other material beings whose sense of time and duration are different. For how long is a thing raw? The solo was performed in Tanzfaktur, Cologne, and in Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki
On autumn 2020 the working group choreographer-dancer Lin Da and composer-sound desigher Jyri Pirinen recomposed the solo-work, emit, into a studio-performance where they both had an activating role. The studio-performance took place on Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki.
In 2021 the working group consist of choreographer Da, costume-set designer Amita Kilumanga, sound designer-composer Jyri Pirinen, lighting designer Olivia Pohjola. Together they work on a audio-performance, rinnakkaisuus_amongness, that will be released in June 2021. The piece is a co-production with Live Art Society.
In February 2022 the project took over the gallery of Stoa in Helsinki to rehearse Jäljellä olevaa dance performance and to install Jälki exhibition. Jälki is an installation that is based on Emitting Things project’s (2019–2021) performance materials that the working group set in new relationships. The installation also offers an opportunity to experience rinnakkaisuus_amongness audio performance.
The project has been supported by: Niilo Helander’s Foundation, City of Helsinki, Arts Promotion Center Finland (Mobility grant), Creative Europe program/i-Portunus and TelepART Mobility Support
Residency: Inkubator/Tanzfaktur
Lin Martikainen aka Lin Da 