Event info

Lacuna is a body horror performance and work of auto-fiction that brings together
ghostly memories and lived experience, while composing a verbal and musical
incantation. “Lacuna” means an opening or a gap. For Ala-Ruona, the word’s
interpretation is twofold. It is both a ghost – a parasitic memory of his body before
transition – while on the other hand a blissful void free of trauma. Images and
experiences emerging from the past are conjured on stage through gestures, words, and
screaming, opening a transcendental portal into the artist’s interiors. By entering the
orifices and holes of the body, viewers are invited into a carnal abyss.

Teo Ala-Ruona (b. 1990) is a Finnish performance artist whose work focuses on
speculative fiction in forms of performances that combine fictional practices, movement
and various vocal techniques. He explores topics of sex, queer ecology, toxicity and
gender.

Sequences 11th edition will take place 13 – 22 October in Reykjavik, Iceland. Titled Can’t
See, the Biennial will bring visitors together at the darkest time of the year, for an
exchange of ideas and to provide a glimpse into the spaces that cannot usually be
perceived by the human eye. Sequences XI will feature a central exhibition, displayed
across four local institutions (Nordic House, The Living Art Museum, National Gallery,
Kling & Bang) with a wider programme of performances, workshops, concerts and more.