Urban Body
Urban Body (2026) is an artistic enquiry into how sound, movement and ritual can transform everyday urban environments into temporary spaces of connection. It explores how collective presence, embodied listening and movement can reshape our experience of shared space and create new forms of relation between bodies, people and their surroundings, and transform the experience of everyday urban environment.
Group Members
Group Members explores how synchronised bodies can create forms of connection and community through text and GIF. The work is part of a collaborative project by Sebastian López-Lehto and Emmi Kaasalainen, exploring bodily and choreographic practices as ways of bringing bodies together and shaping collective experience. MadHouse Publications 2020.
Corporeality of Community
Corporeality of Community (2020-2021) is a project in which my collaborators and I developed body-, sound-, and movement-based practices to support experiences of connection across different communities. We combined artistic methods with an understanding of bodily and nervous-system processes, exploring how gentle self-regulation, vocal work, and collective movement can create conditions where connection emerges safely and organically.
We facilitated several workshops for diverse groups. Participants first attuned to a calm and open bodily state, after which we explored synchrony, mirroring, rhythm, and shared space — ways in which bodies can find one another without pressure or performance. We aimed to investigate how movement and sound can form a physiological foundation for connection at a time when many experience isolation or insecurity.
The project aligns with my broader interest in participatory arts and communal rituals, deepening my understanding of connection as a bodily skill that can be cultivated. Corporeality of Community has been central to my artistic and pedagogical work, exploring how community, body, and voice meet in shared practice.
