Alisa Alho is a conceptual artist with performance as their primary tool. With a background in social sciences, activism and music, their work reviews the social structures that mold interaction — examining norms, power dynamics, and boundaries of the acceptable. Through the practice of performance, they create situations exploring the tensions between the individual and collective behaviour, objective and subjective realities, and the absurdity of what is considered appropriate. Often working with the body and disposable materials—cardboard cups, cigarette butts—their pieces question the normativity of spaces and the rules that govern them.
I do performance art, music, text. I reside in Helsinki, Finland.
I am also interested in emotions, the self counteracting with the collective, intersections, social stratification, norms, the moon, these takeawaycups made of carton, laughing, community, sharing secrets to everyone, the mundane, the universe.