textual
motion
company
Multidisciplinary artist collective based in Helsinki, Finland. Community art projects and border crossing art pieces from 2019 to 2023.
textual
motion
at the box
Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki 2019
A multidisciplinary work that combined stories by the audience, modern poetry and dance improvisation. The work explored encounters and their interfaces; instants turned into encounters, stories of these moments turned to texts and text interpreted as emotions through motion.
Creative director, concept and production / Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen
Assistant Director / Alejandro Flores Monroy
Text / Henrik Pathirane
Motion / Elina Valtonen, Meri-Tuuli Hirvonen, Veera Leppänen, Taru Miettinen, Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen
Voice / Outi Ikonen, Heikki Mäkäräinen
Costumes / Minna Paussu Desing
Pictures / Martina Näreharju
Moving RecollectionS
Helsinki 2021
A duet for two dancers that turned by-passers and traffic into spectators and moving visual landscapes. Performed in an empty store space in Helsinki during the 2021 lockdown.
Concept and choreography / Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen
Dance / Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen and Alejandro Flores Monroy
Production / Textual Motion Company
Supported by TAIKE
MADE BY
US
Helsinki 2020
The Made by Us dance art project offered young people between the ages of 14 and 17 an opportunity to participate in versatile dance art workshops free of charge.
During the project, the participants realized their own choreographic production.
The project was supported by the Uusimaa fund of the Finnish Cultural Fund at organized at the Cable Factory in Helsinki.
PLATAFORMA
virtual de arte
Plataforma Virtual de Arte was a collaborative project between artists; a virtual art collection available online, showcasing works by young Latin American artists.
Virtual Exhibition was open 15.5.2020-31.8.2020. Exhibition featured young artists from Latin America from diverse fields of art.
Featured works by:
Yuri Lumin, Belinda Talavera, Irma Leiva, Layda Angulo , Angelo di Paiva, Nicole Riquelme, David Montoya, Miguel Angel Galindo Alvarado, Alzynney Pereira and Kemerson Freitas, Maurício Hilgert, Kaú Carvalho and Isabelle Medeiros, Mero Reymond, Erick Aguilera, Camila Arcaya, Thábata Marques, Mauricio Mendoza, OBELIZKO RZ, Arthur Costa, Felipe Marques, Johnny Caldas, Jhoyman Bedoya, William Acuña, Juan Muñoz Martínez, Juan Costa Viaggio, Nicole Blanco, Bianca Foratori, Jose de La Peña, Manuel Villa, Israel Sullivan, Peste Negra, Sebastian Calvo García, Daniel Oropeza, Mikaela Buzeta, Juan Leiva, Emiliana Pagalday, Siddharta Muni, Lucia Lisperguer, Elio Benítez, Isabela Rossin, Cecilia Silva, Elizabeth Espinel D. , Carolina Garcia Muñoz, Medula Ensamble, Daniel Normal, Matheus Diaz, Guido Lamim
Bianca Foratori / Bruja (2019)
Acrylic on canvas.
dance around
the worlD
‘Dance around the world’ project produced an online dance portal for 10-17-year-olds and a book called ‘Tanssi - an information book for young enthusiasts’ that introduced danceart for young dancers.
Supported by TAIKE
Book sales in collaboration with Cable Factory Museums
PILARES
CDMX
Mexico City, Mexico 2022
Contemporary movement and improvisation workshops for professionals and dance enthusiast in Mexico City. Workshops were instructed by Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen.
In collaboration with PILARES Vasco de Quiroga, Mexico City
ABOUT
Textual Motion Company operated as an artist-led collective in Helsinki in 2019-2023. The collective was facilitated by artist and cultural studies doctor Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen.
During its five years of operation, the collective realized multidisciplinary art works and collective art projects in Finland and Mexico.
