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SIDESHOW

BODY ART

Body art professionals will offer their services in Kattilahalli’s EXPO. Impossible Bodyart’s carefully chosen team has both familiar faces and new acquittances. The team consists of experienced tattoo artist and body piercers, along with a massager with magic hands and a body suspension artist, who turns her rituals into art. A completely new service in the area is Mosh Massage. This year the stiff and sore necks can be treated so that one can mosh at the gigs like there’s no tomorrow.

Tattoos and body piercings are walk-in services and, therefore, the artists take no bookings beforehand. The artists’ portfolios are available on their personal Instagram accounts so one can choose one’s favourite artist to perform their tattoo at the festival. However, the rope and hook suspensions can be prebooked by contacting The Occult Therapy directly or by consulting Impossible Bodyart. The suspensions are also available on the spot, so booking ahead is not mandatory. The contact information for every artist is found on their personal Instagram accounts. 

This year, like the last, the Body Art area will have a sideshow program. The program will include ritualistic body suspensions with hooks and ropes that are performed by The Occult Therapy with the help form other members from the team. More classic sideshow art is provided by a freak show artis Nes Tiffany.

SIDESHOW PROGRAM

ROPE

As The Occult Therapy unfolds and rebinds her ropes, the stage becomes a safe space for the mind to quiet down. The rope tightens around Nes Tiffany as these two performers demonstrate the therapeutic power of body arts. Join us to witness the letting go of defences and surrendering to a protective embrace.

Rope suspension demonstration by the_occult_therapy with @nestiffany

www.theocculttherapy.com

 _Bound in Motion_

This artwork demonstrates a dialogue between the art of circus and shibari. The performance presents a duo consisting of a circus artist, Veera Hakala, and a rope that has a will of its own. The rope takes the path of its choosing. The rope is guided by Brass Michel whose hands lead the audience to a world where the dynamic move of circus intertwines with the delicate nature of shibari.

Rope performance by brassmichelworkshop with hakala_modeling

www.brassmichel.com

HOOK

What can be discussed in a hook suspension? In a society that keep us apart, make us afraid of one another, let’s defy the norms and embrace our true human nature made of love, by embracing each other. It might hurt at first to walk in unknown territory, to walk in each other personal space, but let’s walk in there together. This performance includes piercing of the skin and possibly blood, and therefore viewer discretion is advised.  

A hook suspension ritual performance facilitated by @the_occult_therapy with @hippistouch and @_fuckwads_

www.theocculttherapy.co

The Floating Nana

Tuska’s sideshow performance, Fluff, will enter the Body Art area as one of the alleged grandmothers floats on stage in Nina Mamia’s dance choreography. Read more about Fluff https://tuska.fi/en/program/sideshow/hahtuva/

Fanny Smith

On Sunday the Body Art area stage is taken over by a senior citizen. In her new sideshow performance, Nes Tiffany explores the aging body. The limitations brought by age and the absurdity of everyday life embody on stage as the classic elements of freakshow are enacted by an elderly lady. The performance includes piercing of the skin and outrageous behaviour, and therefore, may not be suited for the fainthearted.

Sideshow artist nestiffany

Impossible BOdyart

TATTOOS

ARTIFACT

Sampo

CABBIT TATTOO

Erika

LA FAMILIA TATTOO
Polaris Tattoo
Luna Kreativa
BODY PIERCING
BODY SUSPENSION
MOSH MASSAGE
SIDESHOW-PROGRAM