NPTB: Miradonna Sirkka (& Aleksi Kinnunen, Alpi Vaalaja) (FI) – Nonstop Paradise exhibition

Three videoworks with a sound loop in the exhibition: Open Call for a Kiss, Living like there is No Tomorrow and Minun Ystäväni, My friends, Mina Vänner. The videoworks are part of Nonstop Paradise performance. 

We got everything
While we did nothing
We only waited 
And the eternity arrived 
That’s not enough
Today the sky is empty, and I feel nothing
Today the sky is empty, and I can do nothing

Nonstop Paradise relentlessly strives towards paradise, gradually examining and deconstructing the image of paradise. Initially, paradise appears to be a naively idyllic, sugary safe haven but upon closer investigation, it reveals the unsustainability of the Western way of life. Beneath the hedonistic escapism lies a deep, scary need for human connection. 

<3 The ideas are extremely romantic and therefore doomed <3

Working group of the exhibition: Miradonna Sirkka, Kissing video filming Iida-Liina Linnea, sound design Aleksi Kinnunen

The work has been produced in cooperation with STUDIO ALTA and MeetFactory in Prague, and the artists have been workin in their recidencys.

Miradonna Sirkka (she/her) is a contemporary circus and performance artist, director and performer. Her works are multidisciplinary blends of performance art, installation, video, sound and media art. Among her recurrent themes are pleasure, joy, emotions that are too big to handle, disgusting secret thoughts, human contact, and everyday awkwardness. Plasticity, pine forest, femmeness and grittiness all feature in the works.

Miradonna graduated as a circus artist from Turku University of Applied Sciences and has a MA from Aalto University in Visual Culture and Curating Contemporary Art. She is the founder and co-Artistic Director of Recover Laboratory, a multi-disciplinary group whose works have been presented in Finland and internationally. Nonstop Paradise’s core team includes absolutely amazing, skilled, fabulous artists Aleksi Kinnunen (sound designer) and  Alpi Vaalaja (light and space designer) <3

www.miradonnasirkka.com

www.recoverlaboratory.com