Image: Essi Maria Orpana
Performance Lecture: Embodied politics
What does it mean to hold a political position — not just intellectually, but in the body? How do political ideas take shape in and through the body? Conviction, resistance, and belonging are not only theorised but felt, carried, and performed in everyday life. We invite you to an evening exploring embodied politics together with Marie-Louise Richards and body_hacker, bringing together two distinct practices in conversation: thought and movement, proposition and gesture.
Date: 5 November 2026
Time: 18:00 – 20:30
Free to attend. RSVP to guarantee your spot; drop-ins welcome on a first come, first served basis.
Museum of Impossible Forms
Aallonhalkoja 9 L1
00540 Helsinki, Finland
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Marie-Louise Richards
Marie-Louise Richards' work traverses art, architecture, social practice, and writing. She is the founder and leader of the experimental platform and art project Reconstructions – operating as a postmasters-course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her practice centers affect, forms of knowledge that refuse capture, the cultivation and tending of generative relational forms and responsive processes.
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body_hacker
body_hacker is an antidisciplinary multimedia performance artist based in Copenhagen. Their work evokes inter-relational decolonial, ecoerotic, cosmic and embodied manifestos that confront what they call “the hijacked body”. The hijacked body arises from the illusion of separability, and Toro often works with strategies to devise artistic interventions to unwrite and disrupt this body collectively. Through ritual, glitches, failure, dialogues with ecoerotic companions, text, resonance and e-motion, Toro develops poetic multitudes of body and radical imagination within anticapitalist, anarchist, and collective modes of liberation.