helena@atkin.london
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Helena (London, 2001) is a British-Estonian composer-performer and ‘notationist’, whose work often utilises performance, both as a means and as a lens, to inhabit and explore the unsounding residue and resonance of the notated score. In doing so, she questions how we might navigate the wider world as score-like, inescapably loaded with the ‘unsound’ of all that might have come and all that might yet be. Much of her artistic work and research also takes an interest in language and textuality, transcription and inscription, and the subversive power of fantasy and mundanity in the face of Soviet rule.
She holds a Master’s in Contemporary Performance and Composition (CoPeCo) from the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon and a Bachelor’s in Music (composition & classical piano performance) from The University of Manchester. She frequently collaborates with artists from a range of creative disciplines and has showcased her work across Europe.
Helena is also a passionate educator and teaches regularly, both professionally and as a volunteer.
RESIDENCIES
31.03 - 4.04.25
01.10 - 13.11.24
12.05 - 18.05.23
03.01 - 09.01.23
KUNSTNIKUD ON KOHAL at NARVA ART RESIDENCY - Narva, EE (funded by The British Council)
MAAJAAM ARTISTIC RESIDENCY - Otepää, EE
ActInArt INTENSIVE with STUDIO HANDBENDI - Hvammstangi, IS
COPPER LEG with CoPeCo - Vaskjala, EE
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
12.07.25
21.03 - 22.03.25
08.01.25
17.06.24
17.05.24
01.02.24
26.05.23
11.04.23
10.01.23
10.12.22
09.10.22
SOMEWHERE SWAN with Psychonaut Theatre - Theatre Deli, London, UK
THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE by Finleigh Zack Dance - Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK
PHI X ARCANE EXHIBITION - The Dublin Castle, London, UK
TELEMATIC MUSIC CONCERT with Georg Hajdu – Ligeti Zentrum, Hamburg, DE
TAOI 24-1 with Vlatko Kučan - The Art of Improvisation, Rezonanzraum, Hamburg, DE
LABOPÉRA –ENSATT, Lyon, FR
TORNET #1 with Hara Alonso - Hagalunds Vattentorn, Stockholm, SE
SUDDENLY, IT IS MISSING - KMH Lilla Salen, Stockholm, SE
UNCOMMON THREADS - EMTA Blackbox, Tallinn, EE
IMPROTEST - Mustpeade Maja, Tallinn, EE
JOHN CAGE 110 - Eesti Kontsert, Tallinn, EE
PRESENTATIONS
EXHIBITIONS
07.05 - 25.05.25
HOOLIMISE KEELED - Narva Art Residency, Narva, EE