Monologue in Johanna Lecklin’s In Dark Water
Saturday 10 June from 6 to 6:45 pm
Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre
Culture House Valve, 1st floor
Hallituskatu 7, 90100 Oulu
Johanna Lecklin’s exhibition In Dark Water explores the traces of the Finnish Civil War and the silenced stories of our history. Some of these stories are transformed into a monologue on Saturday 10 June 2023 at 18:00 in Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre’s exhibition space. The performance named Hear the Cry of Your Brother’s Blood by theatre instructor, musician and producer Anna-Kaisa Kettunen is based on an interview with Eeva Eufemia Järvinen (formerly Rimpilä, born 22 December 1891) made by Johanna Lecklin. The performance recalls memories of the years of conflict and the Finnish Civil War, and also features Kettunen’s composition Prisoner’s Song. The lyrics of the song also appear in one of the images in the exhibition.
Anna-Kaisa Kettunen’s performance lasts approximately 15 minutes and will be performed three times during the evening. The performance is free of charge, and you can come and go while the performance is in progress.
Born in Kaustinen, Anna-Kaisa Kettunen is a theatre instructor, musician and producer based in Oulu, Finland. Her speciality is theatre music inspired by folk music. She works as a festival producer, but is also a freelance actress in local theatre companies including Akseli Klonk and Teatteri Saaga. Johanna Lecklin is a Helsinki-based visual artist whose works have been shown in several solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. She graduated with a PhD in Fine Arts from the Uniarts Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. Her doctoral thesis Performed Realness: On Participatory Art and Its Ethics focuses on questions of ethics in participatory art. She graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Department of Space-Time Art of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003 and with a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Helsinki in 2008, majoring in Art History. Johanna Lecklin was awarded the annual prize of the Artists’ Association of Finland in 2001.
Read more about the exhibition here.