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My name is Annette Kristina Arlander. I was born 9.1.1956 in Helsinki, where I live and work, at present as Professor in performance art and theory at the Theatre Academy.
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I graduated from the department of directing at the Theatre Academy in 1981 and completed my studies for Doctor of Arts (Theatre and Drama) there in 1999. I have worked as a free-lance director for various municipal theatres as well as independent production groups and directed performances both in Swedish and in Finnish. I have also created or directed radio plays for the Radio Theatre of the Finnish Broadcasting Company at first in Swedish, later mainly in Finnish.
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My first theatre production, in 1978, was "The Bacchae" by Euripides in an outdoor setting with the Swedish Student Theatre in Helsinki. During the 80´s I worked with performance art in the group HOMO $. Since then I have more or less seriously been called "the priestess of the avant-garde" but also "director of the year" (1996). In the 90´s I studied the use of space in a performance, especially the theatrical use of found spaces and was interested in site-specific work. I also wrote my first book "Esitys Tilana" (Performance as Space) published 1998.
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From the year 2000 most of my work is created for a contemporary art context and concerned with performing landscape by means of video or recorded voice. My research interests can be summarized in the working title "Performing landscape - notes on site-specificity in the light of practical experiences with documentation and display".
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