Pasi Mäkelä

Pasi Mäkelä is a Finnish conceptual artist, performer, choreographer and musician, partially based in Prague. His performances are largely based on Butoh, Japanese avant-garde dance which arose in the early sixties. 

One man physical performance.
Through this perfect embodiement of a troll ("tonttu" in Finnish), Pasi Mäkelä reconnects with a lost natural world order.
With bizarre movements, he reveals a forgotten, collective memory and enters into a "physical subconscious". The tonttu lurks somewhere in the shadows, on the borders between society and nature, on the peripheries of the mind and the body. Is he our conscience? Our possibilities?