PS Network Meeting #3

Held in Hangö, Finland June 6-8, 2025
Host: Hangö Teaterträff

Featured artist collective: Feminist Secret Society of Helsinki
With workgroup session facilitated by Inkeri Borgman (CEO, Gigle)

The Portable Sharing project met live for the first time at the international Hangö Teaterträff festival in Finland for network meetings, public talks, and performances. 

The Feminist Secret Society of Helsinki gave a public lecture at the festival on their experience of working with concept-based works. In 2022, the collective premiered its performance Kohtaamisia (Encounters) at Helsinki City Theatre’s Stage for Contemporary Performance. In May 2023, Amanda Palo, Olga Palo and Katri Naukkarinen led a workshop in Vilnius, during which a Lithuanian version of the performance concept was produced with Lithuanian actors. Encounters. Vilnius premiered at the international Sirenos Festival in October 2023. Amanda Palo and Olga Palo spoke about their experiences of transferring their work to local performers in Lithuania, of ensuring the work maintains its intended function, and of finding ways in which the work can find an audience in a new setting.  

The network also held a session facilitated by CEO Inkeri Borgman of Gigle, who challenged us to reflect on the goals, values, definitions, and frameworks of concepts (concepting/packaging/licencing) and on their mobility.