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'Päivi MAUNU, Finland

Päivi Maunu
Works and lives in Helsinki, Finland

One of the themes of my work is abstract experience of nature and place, and how this can be portrayed in an interpretative visual form. I call it as PerforMental Art, a combination of art performance and environmental art.
As medium I frequently use ink, sugar, sage and other natural materials. By combining elements, an ink drawing session can be reconstituted as an act in which the brush and the body that guides it dance and play in an extended installation. The moment brought out by suspense and other emotions emphasizes ideas and images rather than aspiring towards scientific or realistic truth. The sketchy but indelible imprint refers not to some sort of grandeur, but to an ongoing series of events in life and work.
I have continued with a series of Clarification performances and acts for several years. The work has been engaging with influences from different cultural sources combined my own cultural contexts. The purpose of remaking these rituals is to clarify inner feelings and experiences, even the energy of the building and other non-human entities.

http://www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/artwork/2050
http://napsart.weebly.com

International Performance venues and festivals;
Insaka International Artists Workshop, Livingstone, Zambia,  Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA, MIPAF, Macao International Performance Art Festival.  Macao, OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Peking, China, KEAF, Korea Experimental Art Festival, Seoul, SouthKorea, Navinki, Minsk, Belarus, Open International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, China, PostsovhoZ6/ Human Zoo, Mooste, Estonia, Art Contact, Helsinki, Finland, DaDao Live Art Festival, Beijing, China,  NIPAF, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Japan.
Environmental Art projects in Finland, Sweden, USA, China, Estonia, Spain, Belarus, South Korea and Zambia.

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Ali AL-FATLAWI, Iraq/Switzerland


Wathiq AL-AMERI, Iraq/Switzerland


Analia BELTRAN I JANES, Spain


Jo BENINK, the Netherlands


Nenad BOGDANOVIC, Serbia


Vincent CAMPOS, France


Manuela CENTRONE, Italy


Hsia-Fei CHANG, Taiwan/France


Chuyia CHIA, Sweden/Singapore


Maria CLARK, France


William COLLEY, United Kingdom


Loïc CONNANSKI, France


John COURT, UK/Finland


René DONDERS, the Netherlands


Yingmei DUAN, China/Germany


Helinä HUKKATAIVAL, Finland


Soile IVONEN, Finland


Liina KUITTINEN, Finland


Kaisa LUUKKONEN, Finland


Karolina MAGNUSSON-MURRAY, United Kingdom


Alicia MATTHEWS, United Kingdom


Päivi MAUNU, Finland


Guadalupe NEVES, Argentina


Zhihang OU, China


Rainer PAGEL, Great-Britain


Leon PLATT, United Kingdom


Nigel ROLFE, Ireland


Peter ROSVIK, Finland


Tomas RULLER, Czech Republic


Ursula SCHERRER, Switzerland


Dorothea SEROR, Germany


Abdallah SHMELAWI, Austria/Iraq


Joakim STAMPE, Sweden


Tomasz SZRAMA, Poland/Finland


Sinnikaä TÖRMÄLÄ, Finland


Dragan VOJVODIC, Serbia


Hua WANG, China


Niki ÖDMAN-STAMPE, Sweden


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