Kristina Junttila

Kristina Junttila constructs events and performances where modes of participation might occur, in sites such as hairdressers, old folks homes, lecture rooms or in the more traditional black boxes and galleries. She acts as a performer, collaborator, director, writer or teacher.
Themes of her artistic practice have evolved around the relationship between existing structures and the personal. In what ways do our surroundings, regulations and institutions influence our lives? Who has freedom, responsibility or power?
Her works can take form as an exercise, conceptual art piece, full length performance, intimate meeting or as a relational event. She plays with established conventions, often being naïve and minimalistic, using documentary, but also evoking imagination.
Junttila has studied theatre, visual arts, critical theory and pedagogy in Copenhagen, Tromsø, Dartington, Turku and Helsinki. She has a BA degree in Applied Theatre from Turku Arts Academy and a MA degree in Performance Art and Theory from the Theatre Academy in Helsinki, the highest education for theatre in Finland.

Kristina Junttila facilitates workshops and teaches Live Art, performance art, contemporary theatre, community art, participative- and site-specific performance for non-art participants and art-students.
Junttila started as an instructor for a childrens theatre group in 1996 at Rådstua Teaterhus, Tromsø. Since then she has instructed numerous educational and amateur productions, taught workshops and lectured for different groups, ranging from children, handicapped people, primary school, secondary high school, university, art academy and art festivals. Junttila studied at the teachers education programme at the University of Tromsø from 2000 – 02. Currently she is doing a specialised teacher programme in theatre pedagogy at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki.
Teaching languages: Finnish, Norwegian/Scandinavian and English.

Source: kristina Junttila, 15.11.2010, http://www.kristinajunttila.com/lang/en-us/about/

At the moment she is part time a PhD-student in Art Pedagogy at UoT, Arctic University of Norway. 

2010          Theatre pedagogical studies. Theatre Academy. Helsinki
2007-2010  Master of Arts. Degree Programme of Live Art and Performance studies. (2 yrs-fulltime) Theatre Academy. Helsinki
2007          Art in the city. Tromsø Arts Academy
2002–2006 Bachelor of Arts. Theatre and Applied Drama. (4 yrs-fulltime) Turku Arts Academy
2005          Erasmus exchange. Visual Performance. Dartington College of Arts. England
2000–2002 Teacher Education (subjects: Norwegian, dance and arts & crafts) (2 yrs-fulltime) Tromsø University
1998          Dance and Movement. Den Rytmiske Daghøjskole. Copenhagen
1997-1998 Physical acting. Den Ny Dramaskole. Copenhagen
1996         Matriculation examination. Kongsbakken High School
1995         AFS – one year exchange student. Sekolah Menengah Sultan Ibrahim. Malaysia
1993         Theatre Arts. Narrabundah college. Canberra. Australia

• Kristina Junttila - Artistic director