tiikeri ( tiger ) is a multi-part artistic project started by circus and performance artist milla jarko in 2018 tiikeri is also jarko’s alter ego and social media personality: what kind of way of being does social media create? tiikeri is busy with the interaction in-between the real and fictitious, the physical realm and the social media, the self and the other—tinkering with and hoarding from the in-between tiikeri proposes the concepts rrererererererereererererererererererererepresentation and someturgy for approaching itself the artistic methods are based on sincerity and on a “yes” chain anything can be or happen in the world of tiikeri and its existence overflows its own grasp the politics of tiikeri is critical of institutions, feministic, personal and deconstructive, breaking the politics of form, stage, and circus, playfully, but for damn real!
tiikeri ponders:
once upon a time in somelity reality is being crammed into social media and slowly it starts to trickle back we have become active performers
We whip up stories about ourselves and others for social media we represent, that is, we perform ourselves social media has become an extension of self
what we post tells “who i am” or polishes the self-image what is “true” then? what is performing?
does it ever end? what is a performance? me, i am one!
tiikeri-project has been presented e.g.: 2019 milla jarko’s home, helsinki 2020 finlayson art area, tampere 2021 kehä-festival, oulu 2020 and 2023 cirko—uuden sirkuksen keskus, helsinki 2023 stage for contemporary performance, helsinki city theatre 2024 urbanapa-festival, stoa cultural centre, helsinki ( the tiikeri-project continues to actively seek new places and ways of experimenting with performance on live and online )
supporters: whs ( co-production ), arts promotion centre finland, kone foundation, finnish cultural foundation, cirko—center for new circus, sirkus faktori