WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? (2024)

(Photos: Sonja Hyytiäinen/HAM)

What Kind of Animal Are You? is a bodily exploration of human animality. Using both speech and non-verbal expressions of the body, the performance deconstructs, critiques, and invalidates the dualistic human-animal dichotomy and examines humanity thereafter. The performance moves among and interacts with the artworks and space of the Who Is an Animal? exhibition at HAM.

Choreography and performance: Matilda Aaltonen
Text: Salla Tuomivaara
Sound design: Markus Tapio
Artistic mentor: Riikka Lakea
Production: Reality Research Centre and HAM

Premiered 16.08.2024 at HAM Helsinki