Performance club: Tuomas Laitinen: Audience Body

What happens when we gather to follow a performance? What do we let go of, what do we gain? What kind of a being is an audience?

Fri 7.11.2025, at 6-7.45 pm, Hugo event space at Kalevan Navetta. Free entry. Duration 100 min.

Pre-booking at: https:/­/­link.webropolsurveys.com/­S/­0ABC7E9F134CB48D

You can also attend the performance without a reservation if it has not been fully booked by the day of the event.

Audience Body is a performance without performers, like a book misplaced into the space and time of theatre.

It is composed of several reading objects available to the audience: rolls of paper unwinding, love letters ripped, words eaten and hands immersed in water. Audience Body addresses the phenomenon of audience: its collectivity, liveness and the related tensions that appear when we gather in order to receive.

Event is supported by Art University Seinäjoki Unit and Art Promotion Centre Finland.

Working Group
Script and direction: Tuomas Laitinen

In collaboration with:
Lighting designer Nanni Vapaavuori
Graphic designer Visa Knuuttila
Sound designer Carolina Jinde
Spatial designer Alexander Furunes Eriksson

Production: Reality Research Center
Production in collaboration with: Moving in November

With the support of: Zodiak – Center for New Dance

Audience Body premiered on the 10th of November 2022 as part of the program of Reality Research Center at Moving in November festival in Helsinki, in collaboration with Zodiak the Center for New Dance. It has been performed also at New Performance Turku Biennale 2023 and at Theaterszene Europa -festival in Cologne. It was examined as a part of Tuomas Laitinen’s artistic doctorate in the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.