Marika Peura (FI)
Amalgam Melee

The racism of Western societies inscribes itself into the body, says Marika Peura – in her case, into a body which both suffers and profits from the violent mechanisms of white supremacy, experiencing fragmentation in the process. In her solo Amalgam Melee, Peura – daughter of a white Finnish father and a Filipina mother – searches for strategies to reassemble the pieces – not to create a smooth, easily comprehensible whole, but to let them coexist in their diversity, attract and repel each other. With the help of symbolically charged objects from both Finnish and Philippine cultures and accompanied by a superbly crafted soundscape by Tiikka Drama, Marika Peura develops a body language between repetition and disruption, chaos and analysis.