Vappu Jalonen
Noise Time
Text and sound performances, 2016–2017
Noise Time deals with the experiences of depression and anxiety and the knowledge production about them. Severe depression and anxiety are often overwhelming, strange, scary and isolating experiences. They can feel (and sometimes are) endless and deadly. At the same time depression and anxiety are theorised and re-theorised, medicalised, pathologised and popularised, sometimes in very contradictory ways. The performance considers the personal experiences of depression and anxiety in relation to medical, academic and popular knowledge production about them. It also takes part in this knowledge production, as a noise improvisation and in text form, as an incomplete listing of what and who participates in the entanglement of the so-called mental disorders or illnesses. The listing includes the gendered history of benzodiazepines as well as a dream of a beach, a chosen family as well as low magic, the mind-body split as well as neoliberal capitalism.
Performances
Noise Time: 3, CARPA5 colloquium: Perilous Experience?– Extending Experience through Artistic Research,Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, 2017
Noise Time: F43.22, opening of Antiphallic Dick, a solo exhibition by Camille Auer, Exhibition Laboratory Project Room, Helsinki, 2017
Noise Time: 2, Galleri Syster, Luleå, 2017
Noise Time, Technicity, Temporality, Embodiment: The 10th International Somatechnics Conference, Byron Bay, 2016