Ansa Kurola is a vibrant queer being, performer, and poet, whose poetry performances have been described as deeply present in their sensitivity and soothingly tender to the audience. They have been performing as a stage poet since 2020, most recently delighting audiences in Kuopio as Helsinki’s representative at the 2025 Finnish Poetry Slam Championships.
Olotilautopioista (Utopias of Being) is a stage poetry performance that explores themes of rest, authenticity, and sensory euphoria. The piece develops a neuroqueer poetics where the writing includes methodologies of overload, processing pauses, and hyperfixations. The performance examines the boundaries of neuronormativity in poetry.
Curators’ comments: ”Kurola’s texts open a sensitive and vibrant window into the neuroqueer world, forcing us to consider what kind of sensory world we truly want to live in. A fresh and textually fascinating piece from a charismatic performer!”
Read more: Ansa Kurola’s homepage, Kurola’s Instagram