Activating dissonance : 20 years of art education in Finland

In this book on the past 20 years of live art education in Finland, the story of the Master’s Programme in Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), some descriptions of the conditions and situatedness, relocations, or ways to break out are necessary. Today, at the end of 2021, it is hard to gain such a purview without taking into consideration the pandemic, ecological crisis, and the rise of conservatism – even of brutal militancy. In the common and everyday experience, it seems we have so much to do and very little time or capacity to do it, alongside the imminent crises of safety, care, and loneliness that are growing in society.