Toisissa tiloissa (Other Spaces) is a pioneering Finnish live art collective founded in 2004 and based in Helsinki. The group brings together around twenty artists from different fields and has developed a distinctive artistic practice based on collective physical exercises. These exercises explore bodily transformation and invite participants to experience forms of being and perception other than human. Over the years, the collective has created more than 200 exercises, which they share with audiences through performances, workshops and demonstrations. Based on this practice, the group has created numerous thematic performances – such as Reindeer Safari, Humanoid Hypothesis, Great Barrier Reef and Enlightenment Machine – presented at festivals and venues in Finland and internationally.
Sanni Priha works across live art, moving image and artistic research. Her work centres on embodied practices and site-responsive approaches, explored through documentary film and participatory performances, unfolding at the intersection of body, environment, and narrative. She is currently a Junior Researcher in the interdisciplinary the Arctic in a Changing World doctoral programme at the University of Lapland where she studies how moving image and performance can attune to ecological change, more-than-human perspectives, and embodied ways of knowing. Priha holds an MA in Documentary Film from Aalto University and a BA in Film Studies and Drama from Queen Mary University of London. Since 2013 Priha has been a member of the performance art collective Toisissa tiloissa (Other Spaces), with whom she has co-created performances, workshops, and video works such as Avalokiteshvara Superclusters, Great Barrier Reef, Rhizome and The Angle of Water 104.45°.