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Vincent RoumagnacGarden Theatre (Patch #1)
HAKANIEMENRANTA 26 TYÖHUONE HELSINKI
5-6 & 12-13 APRIL 2025
Saturday: 14:00-19:00
Sunday: 14:00-16:00
30' booking slot (one person at a time)
Free / Booking here:
https://pro.vello.fi/hakaniemenranta26atyohuone/
Stages of Flower Power/s: Garden Theatre (Patch #1)
The origin of Garden-Theatre is to be found in the intersection of Roumagnac's new project, Stages of Flower Power/s (2025-2028), and his second exploration of the Museum of Scenic Arts (Barcelona) reserves and collections, carried out in collaboration with Carme Carreño Pombar, curator of the archive, in October 2024. This time the artist researcher focused on late 19th-century theatre set models and sketches featuring floral and garden motifs, a period significantly shaped by the transformative influence of electric power on Western scenographic aesthetics.
Garden-Theatre incorporates enlargements of these historical floral sketches, merged with AI-powered renderings derived from them. Installed on the stage of a black box theatre, the final piece should manifest as an uncanny, multitemporal, heterogeneous, and hybrid garden. In this space, flowers, once relegated to decorative, peripheral fonction, take on a central and ambiguous protagonism.
Garden Theatre (Patch #1) is a still image representing the ongoing progress of the final work, set to be installed in 2026. This image references the traditional method of painting backdrops in theatres, where designs were expanded from rough sketches on the floor using a grid system. Additionally, the work performs as a situated figure, responding to the reopening of Työhuone in, and as, a new space, inviting visitors to explore not only the piece in the making but also the new exhibition space/time itself.
BIO
Vincent Roumagnac is a Helsinki-based Basque-French artist and researcher, born in Biarritz. Roumagnac began his professional artistic life in theatre, initially as an actor and later as a director. However, He moved away from straight theatre practices and modes of production, focusing instead on how theatricality evolves in response to climate urgency and technological advancements, within what he has coined a discipline-fluid methodology. His works, which merge visual, installation, and performing arts, are rooted in intervention and site-sensitive ecologies. He is involved in investigative and collaborative processes that concretely respond to the term 'artistic research' that he ecosystemically understands and implements as research through art-making, and disseminates through experiential and sensory alternative formats of collective knowledge construction. His aesthetic aim is to revise and expand stage boundaries by deconstructing traditional production patterns, testing what he calls 're-ecologising theatre'. By playing obliquely with the memory of Western theatre, its conventions and internal operating modes, its architecture, and its literature, Roumagnac transforms his practice of directing into what he calls 'redirecting'. Redirecting material, time, attention, method, agency, and spectatorship based on the conditions and dynamics of the stage as milieu, rather than as center from an anthropocentric perspective. Since 2010 they team with Finnish choreographer Simo Kellokumpu and since 2012 with French visual artist Aurélie Pétrel, with whom they are, in 2020, winner of the Villa Kujoyama Residency prize. In 2020, he completes his Doctorate in Arts at TUTKE-Performing Arts Research Centre/Uniarts Helsinki, with his artistic research project ‘Reacclimating the Stage’. In 2025, meanwhile starting the new project Stages of Flower Power/s, he publishes as part of the Acta Scenica series (Uniarts Helsinki), as a visiting artist-researcher at the same institution, the final exposition of his four-year post-doctoral artistic research project DATA OCEAN THEATRE, whose three main artistic parts were publicly shown at the Titanik gallery (Turku) in 2022, and in 2023, at Augusta Gallery/HIAP and at Kiasma (Helsinki) on the occasion of the Moving November international festival. Since 2020, Vincent has been co-hosting with Simo Kellokumpu Pengerkatu 7 (now Hakaniemenranta 26) Työhuone in Helsinki.
Accessibility:
Työhuone is located on the street level, but there is one step at the entrance. The door is 70 cm wide.
Web: www.kellokumpuroumagnac.com/
ig: www.instagram.com/hakaniemenranta_26_tyohuone
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Hakaniemenranta 26a, FI-00530 Helsinki, Suomi, Hakaniemenranta 26, FI-00530 Helsinki, Suomi,Helsinki, Finland
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