SAAL Biennaal 2025 | Michikazu Matsune´s workshop: Dreams and Nightmares
Wednesday 27. August at 20:00 - 22:00
Kanuti Guild Hall, Tallinn
A story-sharing workshop.
What are your dreams and nightmares? In this workshop, we share our experience and knowledge of dreaming, in its various forms, while being asleep and awake. Michikazu Matsune, who involves the method of story-sharing in his performances, invites the participants to collectively reflect on our dreams and nightmares. What seem personal and private are often constructs of our socio-cultural, economic or political circumstances. Are we dreaming the same dreams? Are we haunted by the same nightmares? Let’s check it out!
The workshop welcomes everyone who can sleep well or cannot sleep well.
No previous experience with arts or writing is necessary.
Michikazu Matsune, born in Kobe and lives in Vienna, is an artist working at the crossroads between documentary and conceptual performance, in which poetry, humour, the absurd, and criticism meet. His work explores the relationship between public and private, identity and globalisation, story and action. Michikazu is the initiator of The Institute of Sleepless Nights, a research project devoted to the art of sleeplessness and a wide range of troubles related to the act of sleeping. Michikazu’s work All Together can be seen at this edition of SAAL Biennaal.
www.michikazumatsune.info
www.instituteofsleeplessnights.org
Satu Herrala (Helsinki) is a curator and researcher with a background in dance and choreography. She is interested in exploring how attuning to bodily coexistence informs ways of being, knowing and acting, and how collective action emerges from embodiment.
Currently she is working on a doctoral research on embodied curating at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Together with Anna Karhu-Cormier and Maija Mustonen, she founded and co-curated Love Harvest Festival at Frantsila Herb Farm in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 she co-directed Forest as a Geopolitical Stage, a Finnish-Uruguayan art and research initiative, with Tamara Cubas, Jussi Lehtonen and Julia Asperska.
She is a performer and a member of the working group of Pauliina Feodoroff’s performance piece Matriarchy which premiered at The Sámi Pavilion in the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.
Together with Hans Rosenström she co-curated a contemporary art programme A I S T I T / coming to our senses consisting of exhibitions, performances, discursive events and public art in 2021, produced by four Finnish Cultural Institutes.
Between 2015 and 2019 she worked as the artistic director and curator of Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival in Helsinki. She is a regular guest lecturer and mentor at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Marta Keil (Utrecht) is dramaturge, curator and researcher. Her curatorial and research practice focuses on re-enchanting the ways of instituting in the performing arts. As a fellow of BAK in Utrecht she started in 2023 her research on dramaturgies of withdrawal in performing arts, which she continues at AP School of Arts in Antwerp.
Marta works as tutor at DAS Theatre, Academy for Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts, and collaborates as freelance dramaturg, curator, teacher and advisor with various European institutions and artists, e.g. Ira Brand, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Samara Hersch, Milla Koistinen, Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué, Jagoda Szelc.
Recently, she curated an artistic research project Breaking the Spell, co-produced by Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, München Kammerspiele, Performing Arts Institute in Warsaw and Viernulvier in Ghent and collaborated with the New Theatre Institute of Latvia in Riga and Rosendal Teater in Trondheim for The Shake Down project, involving teenagers to curate two internationally renowned festivals. Marta edited several books on curation, choreography and performing arts and holds a PhD in Culture Studies. She is a member of the Performing Arts Institute collective in Warsaw.
Duration: 240´
In English
Kanuti Guild Hall • Pikk tänav 20, 10133 Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
