
Dr. Joonas Lahtinen
performance//installation//research
recent & coming up next:
Dec 25 New Proceedings Exposition (listen for beginnings/Research Catalogue)
Aug 25 CARPA 9 (Conference Presentation, UniArts Helsinki)
May-Jul 25 Demokratie-Zelle (Group Exhibition, Kunstzelle Vienna)
May 25 SAR Conference (workshop co-planning) / U of Porto, Portugal)
Nov 24 Sprache/Macht/Geschlecht (Discussion, IFN Jelinek / Kosmos Theatre Vienna)
Jun 24 Forum Artistic Research (Lecture Performance, GMPU Klagenfurt)
Apr 24 SAR Forum (workshop co-facilitation & conference, Fontys, Tilburg)
Feb 24 Odd Measures/ Embodiment (performance, MUK, Vienna)
Nov 23-Feb 24 Love Letters (Vienna Art Week/WUK Kunstzelle)
Sept 2023 -> Professor of Performance Art & Artistic Research (MUK, Vienna)
Feb 23 Tutke Lecture for Doctoral Students (UniArts Helsinki/Theatre Academy)
Sept 22 Tactics for a Collective Body (performance, Het Bos, Antwerp)
May 22 Soup Session/Love Letters (installation/talk, AP Arts, Antwerp)
Nov 21-Jan 22 From nowhere to now-here (lab, Schauspielhaus Wien)
Aug-Sept 21 Earth and Water (group exhibition, MUDS/La Contrada Trieste)
– website currently being updated –
meanwhile, you might like to visit:
http://joonaslahtinen.wordpress.com

participatory performance/installation
WUK performing arts Vienna 2019
URB 16 Festival / Kiasma Theatre / Finnish National Gallery 2016

performance and installation artist, researcher
Professor of Artistic Research & Performance Art
MUK – Music and Arts University
of the City of Vienna
PhD Theatre Research
(Univ. of Helsinki, January 2021)
MA Theatre Research
(Univ, of Helsinki 2010)
MA Performance
(Queen Mary Univ. of London 2009)
BA Theatre Research
(Univ. of Helsinki 2007)
International publications + advisory and review activity in the fields of performance, practice-as-research, theatre studies, and exhibition studies



performance/installation
brut Wien, Vienna 2015
URB 14 Festival / Kiasma Theatre / Finnish National Gallery 2014
HomeFest Festival Bucharest 2015
in the photo: performer Mikko Niemistö

performance/installation
Freischwimmer performance festival 2012-2013: Sophiensaele Berlin, brut Wien, Gessnerallee Zurich, Mousonturm Frankfurt, FFT Dusseldorf, Kampnagel Hamburg
STAGE Helsinki Theatre Festival 2013
SOHO in Ottakring Festival Vienna 2016

Artist lab / installation on resources and care in art practice
with students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
at Schauspielhaus Wien, Vienna

performance for 3rd and 4th year Dance students
MUK Vienna / “Embodiment” Choreography Event 2024
MUK.theater, Vienna

exhibition series in public space
by Laussegger/Lahtinen
Altes Landgut, Vienna 2019
commissioned by SHIFT/City of Vienna

artistic research project/ installations/performances
participatory installation Love Letters at WUK Kunstzelle, Vienna / Vienna Art Week, Nov-Dec 2023 / *extended until 9 February 2024*,
part of the “Soup Session” at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
(RAFA) in May 2022,
short videos featured in the
WUK performing arts Facebook
Lockdown Calendar in Spring 2021

part of the Vienna Art Week 2023: Inciting Passion
participatory installation and events in public space
part of the long-term artistic research project
LOVE LETTERS…
Nov-Dec 2023 / *extended until 9 February 2024*

performance / live audio play
Kiasma Theatre/Finnish National Gallery 2016
imagetanz Festival/brut Wien, Vienna 2014
in the photo: performer Harald Jokesch

University of Helsinki
Public Defence in December 2020
Graduation in January 2021
Contact
joonas_lahtinen(at)hotmail.com
instagram
vimeo
Research Catalogue / SAR