- Performance Art
- Dance
- Theater
RED - ROT
Ilana Palmgren, Joni Salmela
4 July 2026 17:00–18:00
RED - ROT
RED - ROT is a physical live performance by Ilana Palmgren, sound artist Joni Salmela, and visual and lighting designer Jaakko Sirainen with working group.
The performance explores dissociation as a shifting state of perception and a possible way of existing. Movement, electronic sound and visual elements unfold through changing states of body and perception.
RED - ROT asks:
What is it to be seen and to be safe?
Could I be like this, or like this?
What if we approached constant shifts, leaks and transformations with curiosity?
Instead of disappearance, RED - ROT breaks dissociation into movement, sound and words - and goes through.
The performance invites the audience into a shared sensorial experience where perception becomes synaesthetic.
“Why is red considered an erotic colour?
I guess it’s erotic to be alive, right?
You either rot - or burn and rot.”
RED - ROT is a physical live performance by Ilana Palmgren, sound artist Joni Salmela, and visual and lighting designer Jaakko Sirainen with working group.
The performance explores dissociation as a shifting state of perception and a possible way of existing. Movement, electronic sound and visual elements unfold through changing states of body and perception.
RED - ROT asks:
What is it to be seen and to be safe?
Could I be like this, or like this?
What if we approached constant shifts, leaks and transformations with curiosity?
Instead of disappearance, RED - ROT breaks dissociation into movement, sound and words - and goes through.
The performance invites the audience into a shared sensorial experience where perception becomes synaesthetic.
“Why is red considered an erotic colour?
I guess it’s erotic to be alive, right?
You either rot - or burn and rot.”
Biography
Ilana Palmgren, Joni Salmela
Ilana Palmgren (they/them, b. 1995, Finland) is a performance artist and actor based in Berlin whose work moves between theatre, performance art, movement and text. Drawing on classical and psychophysical Stanislavski techniques, Palmgren explores the metamorphosis between traditional acting methods and experimental performance. They hold an M.A. in Theatre and Drama from the Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatory (Russia) and completed studies at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Recent works include BLAU (2025), Les Bonnes Bonnes (2023) and Etudes from the Other Side of the Border (2023). With RED - ROT, Palmgren was selected as a finalist for the MAE Artist Award 2025 and performed at SomoS Arts.
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