CONTACT
Teo Ala-Ruona
pronouns: he/him
e-mail: teo.alaruona@gmail.com
Instagram: teoalaruona
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-183555881-487084550
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user34258659
CV
EDUCATION
2016 – 2018 MA in Ecology and Contemporary Performance, Theatre Academy of the University of Arts, Helsinki
2014 – 2016 MA Programme, Art Education, Department of Art, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki
2010 – 2014 Bachelor of Arts, Art Education, Department of Art, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki
2011 – 2012 Minor Subject in Contemporary Art, Department of Art, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2023 Enter Exude. Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art. Vilnius.
2023 SLIT. w Artor Jesus Inkerö. Centrale Fies. Dro.
2023 Enter Exude. Kiasma-theatre. Helsinki.
2023 Babymmalian. w Anni Puolakka. HAM-gallery. Helsinki.
2023 Lacuna. ICA. London.
2023 Lacuna. VEGA. Copenhagen.
2022 Babymmalian. w Anni Puolakka. Parting With Return (You’re so Busy). Vapaan Taiteen Tila. Helsinki.
2022 Lacuna. Stoa. Drifts-festival. Helsinki.
2022 Slow-sex-death-drive. Jason-platform. Copenhagen.
2022 Lacuna. Takomo. Helsinki.
2021 Lacuna. XS-festival. Kutomo. Turku
2021 Deep Time Trans. Baltic Circle -festival. Helsinki.
2021 My flesh is in tension, and I eat it. Kutomo. Turku.
2021 Extinct. Nocturnal Unrest -festival. Frankfurt.
2020 SYMBIO. Collaboration with Boat Sutasinee Kansomdee. Bangkok Biennial.
2020 My flesh is in tension, and I eat it. SIC-gallery. Fantasy 1 & 2 -exhibition. Helsinki.
2019 toxinosexofuturecummings. Mad House Helsinki.
2019 toxinosexofuturecummings. Human Resources. Los Angeles.
2019 Clay erotics. Wonderlust-festival. Helsinki.
2019 toxinosexofuturecummings. Asbestos Art Space. Helsinki.
2018 Nowhere in Particular. Vapaan Taiteen Tila. Helsinki.
2017 Garden of Others: Lunch as a Temporary Autonomous Zone. Pixelache festival. Helsinki.
2016 – 2017 KSENOS. Helsinki.
2016 – 2017 Non-human Island. Reality Research Center. Helsinki.
2016 On Streams, Transitions, and Echoes. Re-Timing performance project. Asematila. Helsinki.
2015 The BodyBuilding Project: Acclimatization. /teatteri.nyt. Kiasma. Helsinki.
2015 Johdatus/Guidance. Reality Research Center. Espoo.
2015 Relation Tryouts: Water & Air performance installation. Break a Brain Ecojustice Art Festival. Tampere.
2015 The BodyBuilding Project, Excavations. Gallery Augusta. Helsinki.
2015 The BodyBuilding Project: An Assemblage. LAPSody festival. Helsinki.
2015 KIL: Make Yourself at Home – Focus. Living Room Exhibition. Helsinki.
2014 KIL in Titanik. Titanik-gallery. Turku.
2012 Please, close the door. WerkStadt Kulturverein e.V., Berlin.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS & TEACHING
2022 Wet Body Fictions. w Even Minn. Warehouse9. Copenhagen.
2020 – Visiting lecturer. Theatre Academy of Helsinki.
2020 Care Practices: Recipes for Resilience. Online writing workshop with Even Minn. Curated by Ceci Moss and Ki Nurmenniemi. Organized by Gas-gallery.
2019 TWAH (=These Worlds Are Here) writing workshop. NAVEL. Los Angeles.
2019 Peer Group for Trans and Non-binary Artists. In collaboration with Feminist Culture House. Museum of Impossible Forms. Helsinki.
2018 Writing Pleasure, Fiction, Avatars: writing workshop for trans, non-binary and queer people. On Transformations -festival. Third Space. Helsinki.
2018 Writing for Multiple Future Worlds -writing workshop. In collaboration with Tereza Silon. Hybernská ožívá. Prague.
2018 Words Make Worlds -writing workshop. Spinnboden Lesbian Archive and Library. Berlin.
2017- 2019 Feminist and Anti-racist Night School. Organizer. Helsinki.
2016 Emergent Economies. Three-day event in a Skills of Economy project. Mattering City exhibition. Copenhagen.
2015 The BodyBuilding Project. Inhimillisen rajamailla. Mad House Helsinki.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 You bring the light. w Venla Helenius. Titanik-gallery. Turku.
2019 TWAH (=These Worlds Are Here). Gas-gallery. Los Angeles.
2014 White Horses. w Venla Helenius. B-gallery. Turku
2014 rituaLIFER. w Jyri Ala-Ruona. Kalleria-gallery. Helsinki.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Gentle Gestures — Non-binary Conceptions of Difference. Curated by Camille Auer. Titanik-gallery. Turku
2020 Fantasy 1 & 2 -exhibition. Curated by Max Hannus. SIC-gallery. Helsinki.
2020 Kirjoittaa X uusiksi. Internet exhibition for youth. Curated by nynnyt.
PUBLICATIONS
2021 The elegy of the Bambi. A text for exhibition Alagya by Silvia Bolla and Áron Lodi. Budapest.
2020 Rajankäyntiä transrepresentaatioista taiteessa. In collaboration with Camille Auer. Kritiikin uutiset.
2019 HOMEBUILDING ELSEWHERE: On embodied transitional fiction writing. Borrowing Positions -book.
2018 Nämä maailmat ovat jo: Kirjoittaminen queer-feministisenä maailman tekemisenä (Master thesis work in MA in Ecology and Contemporary Performance) “These worlds are here already: Writing as a queer-feminist world-making”
2015 Erottamattomuuden harjoitus – Kanssaolo ekologisen ajattelun perustana (Master thesis work in art Education)
SEMINARS & CONFERENCES & LECTURES
2022 Somatic fiction and transmaterial realities. The Realm of Senses -lecture series. Aalto-yliopisto.
2018 Wild Core: A seminar with MAECP, Helsinki.
2017 Matter and Process, Helsinki (Performer).
RESIDENCIES
2023 Centrale Fies, Live Works vol. 10. Dro.
2023 BUDA-residency. Kortrijk.
2023 Zodiak Laboratory -residency. Helsinki.
2022 London Performance Studios. London.
2022 FABRIKKEN-residency. Copenhagen.
2021 Kutomo-residency with Deep Time Trans -project.
2021 HIAP-Eskus residency. Helsinki.
2020 Mustarinda residency with Even Minn. Hyrynsalmi.
2020 Saari Residency with Deep Time Trans -project.
2020 Kutomo-residency. Turku.
2017 Ponderosa residency. Stolzenhagen. Germany.
2016 Mustarinda residency with Gesa Piper. Hyrynsalmi.