{"id":2,"date":"2015-08-17T13:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T08:07:01","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography &#038; CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WEB_leena-potretti.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WEB_leena-potretti.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WEB_leena-potretti-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WEB_leena-potretti-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WEB_leena-potretti-361x361.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Ilkka Saastamoinen \/ Kone Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leena Kela (Finland) is a performance artist, artistic director of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/newperformance.fi\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">New Performance Turku Biennale<\/a> and\u00a0works as residency director of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/koneensaatio.fi\/en\/saari-residence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saari Residence<\/a> maintained by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/koneensaatio.fi\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kone Foundation<\/a> (currently on sabbatical \/ study leave until 09\/2025). She has worked with performance art for twenty years and is  doing her doctoral studies at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniarts.fi\/en\/study-programmes\/doctoral-programme-in-fine-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her works she explores dialogue of corporeality and materiality in performance art. She makes performances that play with and twist our relationship with everyday objects. She has presented her performances internationally in performance art festivals, events and exhibitions in every continent except Antarctica.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kela_CV_24_-engselected.pdf\">Leena Kela CV 2024 in English<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kela_CV_24_-engselected.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Leena-Kela-CV-lyhennetty-elokuu-2024.pdf\">Leena Kela CV 2024 in Finnish<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Leena-Kela-CV-lyhennetty-elokuu-2024.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leena Kela (Finland) is a performance artist, artistic director of the New Performance Turku Biennale and\u00a0works as residency director of Saari Residence maintained by Kone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leenakela.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}