Akseli Eliö, a.k.a. Akseli Aittomäki, is a choreographer, dancer and an experimental theatre-maker, a bicycle courier, climate activist, and a grass-root leftist — a maker, a thinker, an experiencing human-animal with live instincts and orientation to future.

I use physical performing to explore political and philosophical themes. I believe physically-engaged, performing bodies can open up meanings and perceptions that cannot be achieved by discourse alone. That does not mean those bodies have to be mute and not speak any of their thoughts. Many of my latest works are fairly straight-forward and out-spoken in the political approaches they have assumed. They are proposals for the spectator see, hear, feel; and if they like, maybe think too. I am not committed to any particular genre or mode of expression. I use the means that are available and serve the subject.

I was member of Höyhentämö - Pluckhouse, an experimental art collective in Helsinki, Finland, for two decades. Since 2015 I live in Berlin. Currently I spend my time dancing in a shared studio space, loitering in half-abandoned outskirts of the city, working as bicycle courier, and contributing to radical climate protest.

I have experience in working in many kinds of collectives and communities with emphasis on grass-root democracy and collective decision making. I have taken part in such organising in artistic work, delivery business and several forms of activism. I am familiar with the strengths and pit falls of grass-roots collectivism and democracy.

I also used to be a part-time social epidemiologist. I am not involved in scientific work anymore. Data on my publications in economic conditions and health inequality can still be found in University of Helsinki database.

Social media: my instagram username is akslisko

Contact
Email: forename surname at massescape net (use a instead of ä)
Mail can be sent to A. Aittomäki c/o Gegensatz Translation Collective, Jahnstr. 87-89, 12347 Berlin, Deutschland