Culture Center Caisa, Caisa Hall 19.8.-20.8.2025
Homa Shokri – Ashla اشلاء
The performance artist Homa Shokri presents Ashla, a performance developed from an ongoing choreographic 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.
The performance is held on Tuesday 19.8. 7PM and Wednesday 20.8. 5PM.
Location: Culture Center Caisa, Caisa Hall
Free admittance.
Read more: Homa Shokri & And The Working Group, Culture Center Caisa
