FANTASY WORLD

Julius Elo (Helsinki), Juliette Dragon (Paris), Angela Lamprianidou (Berlin)

Playing Times: Friday 11:00 – 21:00 / Saturday 11:00 – 21:00

Location: Keimkasten I (Alte Mälzerei)

Julius Elo (they/them) is a performance artist based in Helsinki whose work focuses on participatory performance and the embodied experience of audiences. They creates performance concepts and participatory works that place the audience at the center in various ways. Through one-to-one performances, embodied installations, and performative encounters, they explores intimacy, presence, and desire.

Elo’s artistic research investigates how queer and kinky practices can inform and expand the field of performance art. Their works have been presented in Finland and internationally.

Elo is one of the founders of Reality Research Center, Wonderlust Festival, and Helsinki Shibari Collective. Alongside their artistic practice, they has been engaged with BDSM communities and practices in Helsinki and Berlin for over 15 years. Since 2014, they has also worked as a visiting lecturer at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.

https://www.helsinkishibari.com/about-us / Reality Research Center

Juliette Dragon, who has been based between Paris and Berlin for the past four years, has been working as a feminist performer since 1993. She began as a drag queen in a queer collective and has continued for 33 years to passionately question the performance of the female gender. Director, producer, curator, singer, MC, fire worker, writer, activist, burlesque stripper, she runs her company and her school in Paris. 

She teaches and performs worldwide (Europe, Australia, China, United States, Japan and Latin America). Since 2013, she’s collaborating regularly with Felix Ruckert for XPLORE festivals (Paris, Berlin, Roma, Sydney) and in IKSK.

Angela Lamprianidou is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary health artist working at the intersection of choreography, somatic research, and holistic body practices. She studied Choreography and New Techniques at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona.

Her award-winning works, including SITz and Sit., have been presented internationally at theatres and festivals, among others at Mercat de les Flors, Ponec Theatre, Danse Yverdon Festival in Switzerland, Xplore Festival, OutNow! Festivaland SÅNA Festival in Norway, among others.

Alongside her artistic work, she teaches Body Research internationally and developed her own somatic method Jaw and Body Release (You Are the Point), focusing on emotional release through the jaw.

With a professional background in dentistry and training as a yoga coach, she integrates anatomical knowledge with artistic and energetic practices, creating a holistic approach to body, mind, and soul.

Her workshops and research formats take place regularly in Berlin, including at the IKSK – Institut für Körperforschung und Sinnesarbeit.

Angela’s work embraces matriarchal power:
A woman can be a domina, a queen, and a goddess.
www.lamprianidou.com
www.you-are-the-point.de