In my visual essay I try to enlighten
pedagogical space, art making space and the space of research with affectivity
and new materialistic approaches. In this I use mainly philosophy of the French
thinkers (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari) and concepts like affect,
becoming-other, striated and smooth space, ecology of subjectivity and . The
small art school for children and young people in the remote village in South
Ostrobothnia in Finland (Kauhajoki) and contemporary art workshop and in this
very workshop the performance art experimentation will all form peripheries of
art and education.  I will look at  questions of subjectivity and ecology through
the case of performance in the workshop. Performance art and other fields of
contemporary art requires the ability to throw oneself towards the unknown. Art has always the strong
bridge to the material contexts, environments, spaces around us. And even more:
we are in the deep continuum of materiality-mentality-sociality with art. This
forms also our subjectivity, even temporarily, even much before identity. Art
offers ways for us to reinvent ourselves in 
new subjectivities which can be surprising, uncontrollable and
yet-unkown to us.