The performance artist Homa Shokri presents Ashla, a performance developed from an ongoing choreographic performance project of the same name.

The work investigates how hidden violence dismembers the body—physically and psychologically—through movement and image. Ashla integrates fantasy, techno-inspired movement and collective bodily scores as responses to unseen structures of fear and control.

This project is a collaborative and process-based work developed together with the following working group: Homa Shokri (concept and direction), Christy MA (choreography), Sonjis Laine, Sointu Saraste, Chen Nadler (performers), Alina Ostrogradskaya (sound design) and Oskari Kaarne (light design).

Homa Shokri is a Helsinki-based performance and video artist. Her work explores political violence and the uninhabitability of bodies, often drawing from personal and collective experiences of oppression. With a background in dramaturgy and directing, her practice challenges dominant narratives about how fear and violence mobilise bodies, engaging with themes such as necropolitics and resistance.

*(Ashla اشلاء), derived from Arabic word, refers to a body that has been brutally torn into pieces.

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