Hanna Tuulikki

Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer and performer based in Glasgow. Her multi-disciplinary projects investigate the ways in which the body communicates beyond and before words to tell stories through imitation, vocalisation and gesture. With a largely place-responsive process, she considers how bodily relationships and folk histories are encoded within specific environments, ecologies and places. She often draws on embodied vernacular knowledges, in particular, practices of vocal and movement mimesis of the more-than-human, to offer alternative approaches to making kin across multi-species entanglements.

Blending together vocal composition, choreography and drawing, Tuulikki’s practice spans performance, music, moving image and audiovisual installation. Her critically acclaimed work has been commissioned and presented by organisations across visual, sonic and performing arts in the UK, Europe, USA, India and Australia. Recent presentations include British Art Show 9 (2021-22), In Between, Beirut (2022), Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2022), Full of Noises (2022), Biennale of Sydney (2022), Helsinki Biennial (2021), Kelder, London (2021), Take Me Somewhere (2021). She was Magnetic North Theatre’s first Artist Attachment (2017-19), shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize (2020) and a finalist in Arts Foundation Music for Change Award (2022). She won a Scottish Award for New Music (2017) and was twice shortlisted for a British Composer Award (2015, 2017).


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