Performance artist jobs in Finland
Performance artists create a performance which can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between the performer and audience or onlookers. It can either be scripted or spontaneous, with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any venue or setting and for any length of time.
Performance artist - Which skills are essential?
Legislation, on a national or international level, that governs labour conditions in various fields between labour parties such as the government, employees, employers, and trade unions.
Continually develop and define a concrete artistic vision, starting from the proposal and continuing all the way through to the finished product.
The regulations that govern the set of rights protecting products of the intellect from unlawful infringement.
Identify and investigate sociological trends and movements in society.
Adjust plans to other locations with regards to the artistic concept.
Take the specific environment of your performance into account while performing. Consider integrating some aspects of it into your practice.
Monitor artistic events, trends, and other developments. Read recent art publications in order to develop ideas and to keep in touch with relevant art world activities.
The history of art and artists, the artistic trends throughout centuries and their contemporary evolutions.
Introduce and discuss the nature and content of art work, achieved or to be produced with an audience, art directors, catalogue editors, journalists, and other parties of interest.
Identify influences and situate your work within a specific trend which may be of an artistic, aesthetic, or philosophical natures. Analyse the evolution of artistic trends, consult experts in the field, attend events, etc.
Range of training and rehearsal techniches that seek to encourage emotionally expressive performances. Techniques to address all aspects in making a film, play, performance in general.
Market one's own strengths in terms of skills and knowledge.
Define your own artistic approach by analysing your previous work and your expertise, identifying the components of your creative signature, and starting from these explorations to describe your artistic vision.
Gather samples of the materials you expect to use in the creation process, especially if the desired piece of art necessitates the intervention of qualified workers or specific production processes.
Monitor and follow new trends and developments in specific sectors.
Performance artist - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Assess and list the needs for conservation/restoration, in relation to current use and planned future use.
Plan and implement artistic facilities, performance, venues and museum-related educational activities and events.
Perform in artistic productions of differents disciplines such as classical ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, early dance, ethnic dance, folk dance, acrobatic dances and street dance.
Manage an artistic project. Determine project needs. Establish partnerships. Manage the budget, schedule, contractual agreements and assess the project.
Create and develop educational resources for visitors, school groups, families and special interest groups.
Select the correct training environment and assess risks to ensure it provides a safe, clean and friendly fitness environment and that it will be the best use of the environment in which clients are exercising.
Create an act to perform, using singing, dancing, acting, or all of them together.
Create and process two-dimensional and three-dimensional digital images depicting animated objects or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modelling programs.
Developing artistic project budgets for approval, estimating deadlines and material costs.
Develop speeches, activities and workshops in order to foster access and comprehension to the artistic creation processes. It can address a particular cultural and artistic event such as a show or an exhibition, or it can be related to a specific discipline (theatre, dance, drawing, music, photography etc.). Liaise with storytelles, craftspeople and artists.
Perform quick costume changeovers during rehearsals and live performances.
Take the necessary precautions to ensure the physical safety of an audience or people visiting an activity. Prepare actions in case of emergency. Administer first aid and direct emergency evacuations.
File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.
Study characters in scripts and their relationships to each other.
Set up procedures for maintaining and improving health and safety in the workplace.
Present an exhibition and give educational lectures in a comprehensible way that is attractive to the public.
Take part in recording sessions in music studios.
Use the voice to produce musical sounds, marked by tone and rhythm.
Participate in cultural and artistic mediation activities: announce the activity, give a presentation or talk related to a piece of art or an exhibition, teach a class or a group, lead artistic mediation activities, lead or participate in a public discussion.