I have graduated as interdisciplinary artist in the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Netherlands in 2007. Since 2008 I have based my professional activities in Tallinn, Estonia. Im one of the initiating leaders of an artistic company MIMproject which is mainly a research based artistic structure that deals, expandes, investigates, deconstructs and develops the theater space and its conventions and politics as such. MIMproject started in 2005 and by now has grown into a group of choreographs, directors, sound and video artists, philosophers, writers, physics and light artists.
Besides that I create theater performances, compose music and create video and light solutions and make interactive installations in the field of fine art. Currently teaching students in the Performing Arts department of Estonian Art Academy.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           photo by Alan Prosa

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           photo by Renee Altrov

TRESHING MONGRELS

Treshing Mongrels is an action by MIMproject performed in Kanuti Gildi SAAL and Stalker festival in Tallinn, Estonia.
By and with: Andrus Laansalu, Maike Lond, Kairi Prints, Hendrik Kaljujärv, Henri Hütt, Taavet Jansen, Kristiina Kütt, Kalle Tikas, Andrus Aaslaid and the audience.


During the season 2012/2013 MIMproject will investigate the time period between 1920 - 2020 for their retrospective exhibition opening in August 2013. Treshing Mongrels belongs to the proto period when the working class was still using wooden sticks to get the job done. The research on the wooden sticks carried us in the wonderful world of trance music and in the enlightenment of the crossbreeding that only a wooden stick, anger management and good old trance can create. One could call it so 90's. 90's it is but not in the 20th century but a century long before. www.mimproject.org

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                                                                                       photo by Annika Haas

    SPA

By and with: Maike Lond and Kaja Kann.
Premiere: 2012, AmbulARToorium, Kasepää village, Estonia. 
It is a small village, where most of the population are Old Believers.



SPA is a private performance where the member of the audience is welcomed to take a moment to breathe. The performer could be seen as guide, as a caring support giving time and space for the visitor to let go.

You enter, we greet. I introduce myself. I ask your name. I feel you are tenced. I put my hand on your shoulder and i'll tel you that its ok, dont be afraid.
Im here to make you happy. Im all yours. 
Why are You here I wonder while ducking you under the blanket. Why are you so sad, why are you so fake?
Tension is gone. Thank you for shaving my legs.
You are You again. At least you think so. 
Later, for farewell, we'll have a zip of cherry.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PostUganda III

By Maike Lond and Riina Maidre
Live:
Estonian Contemporary Art Museum EKKM
August Dance Festival, Kanuti Gildi SAAL

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                                                                                                photos by Karli Luik

MIM Goes Sustainable

By and with: Maike Lond, Taavet Jansen, Kristiina Kütt, Kalle Tikas, Kristian Jansen, Andrus Aaslaid Helgur Rosendahl, Andrus Laansalu.
www.mimproject.org
MIM goes Sustainable was a DIY low tech theatre performance with minimum fossil energy impact. It was taking place in 4–9 May 2011 in Tallinn waterfront, part of the European Culture Capital program. 18 - 20 May MIM goes Sustainable was performed in Turku Theater Festival, Finland.
Performance is meant for everyone who even for once has done ecological sin - driving your car, left the garbage unsorted, took an airplane, let the lights on after leaving the house - the list is endless. You have been destroying the planet, you have hurt the nature and now you feel guilty. This time MIMproject is here to save you from the guilt, its here to clear your ecological sin so you can go on living the way you do.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         photos by Annika Haas

PEACE PRESENTATION

Peace Presentation is one performative action of the work in progress series Maike Lond and Kaja Kann held in Kanuti Gildi SAAL in March 2012. During this month the artists investigated the problems with peace, war, violence, sex and the relation in between these binary topics. Each presentation was developed in dialogue with the audience, taking their feedback, processing it and from that collaboration the artists produced new material.

Reinforced by Marxism and later feminism, we have rejected the conventional history of 'kings and battles' for the 'hidden history' of everyday life, almost to the point of forgetting how much of everyday life has, century after century, been shaped by battles and dominated by kings, warriors elites.
Barbara Ehrenreich points out in her essay that our societies and cultural knowingness of the 'Life' has developed not trough the productiveness of human kind (the peace) but trough the destruction, trough perpetual war, trough the production of death, trough war.
So if we speak today about the necessity of peace we also talk about the necessity of war. And if peace do not exist outside of the concept of war, it has no ontological self, it cant be taken without the Other,  I must ask  that what do we support by supporting the peace. What do we claim if we fight for peace. One could only conclude that as we want peace we also want war.
And for us artists what does that mean. If our cultural heritage has developed thanks to destruction how could we make a difference that if we speak about peace, humanity, democracy, morality, liberty, rights, ethics and production we don't actually talk about war?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

METROPLAZA

Sound and light installation for the Metroplaza building in Tallinn. Created for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2011.
Team: Hendrik Kaljujärv
           Taavet Jansen
           Maike Lond
           

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                                                                                          photos by Kris Moor

                             The Year After: King Kong and Other Minor Things

By and with: Maike Lond and Riina Maidre.
Premiere: December 2010 Von Krahl Theater, Tallinn, Estonia
One year has passed. We didn't plan for it to go this way. But one moment it would happen anyway. So better sooner then. Strange... Reality again starts to flex and bend like a fiber pole.
Why did we even drive into this tunnel... Why didn't we notice the blinking neon warning sign „PostUganda's Revenge“... Don't know, don't remember... Revenge promises to be sweet, painful, bloody, but fair. What's also certain is that the weaker must fall and only the most robotic will remain standing. And our world too is left to be saved by King Kong. This time the ticket price has no gender-based differentiation! But there is one gingerbread included in the price.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                                                                                        photo by Riina Maidre

PostUganda

By and with:
Maike Lond and Riina Maidre
Premiere: 2009
Von Krahl Theater, Estonia 
On tour:
Brut/Vienna, Vienna Societaetstheater, Dresden
RING Festival, Nancy Spielart Festival, Munich
Bastard Festival, Trondheim Baltic Circle, Helsinki Baltoscandal Festival
Dear gentleman, lovely mister – if You could spend one day of Your life as a woman in a cheeky experiment, what would You REALLY wish to experience? The flirting? The sweet surrender to the pressure of seduction? The make-up and the fishnet stockings?How about menstruation, anal sex, pregnancy and the Caesarean section?
Or would You simply fiddle with your tits, throw hissy fits and hamper the natural logistics of things in stores, on the beach and in traffic due to Your bimbo brains? And You primarily would probably wish to understand the experience like a man?!
Completely understandable.
If You come to the concert/play “PostUganda” You can be convinced how even the most embarrassing and generalizing prejudices about women, the fine arts, the PMS hysteria and the new Age of Aquarius will turn out to be true and that’s not the half of it...
Of course, all that is served to You here in SUCH a promising form is nothing but a promise.
Nobody can guarantee that it is not a poorly disguised foreplay to get to the cliché known as the culmination that would eventually come anyway in its trivial form. Sometimes it’s more, sometimes less powerful and sometimes it must be faked. Nobody is left completely without it.
Then again, dear man, if You have already spent so much of Your time to get through this text, it can only be alleviated by going to the bottom of things, i.e. by coming to the event in order to find its nut and – as the song goes – “Crack that nut, Michael!”
The play is for women!!!
This means that in order to maximize audience numbers, the catch segment includes blondes, brunettes and redheads – both teen and mature. This in turn means that the audience is filled with many women who are fertile and actively searching for partners, sexually desperate or simply open-minded.
Admittance for men is 2 for the price of one.
“PostUganda” is a concert/play where the emo defeats empathy and to pretend otherwise is pointless. Whoever dares to go over the top or to simply screw the top will want more. As always. My love!

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                photos by Konstantin Leonenko and Taavet Jansen

Sirquit Garden

2007 KABK Gallery, The Hague, NL 
2008 Linnagalerii, Tallinn, EE 2009 Villanuts, The Hague, NL
Sirquit Garden is space specific sound and light installation where the sound is generated by minimal analogue oscillators which are spread in the space depending on the acoustic and visual characteristics of the space. Tough all the oscillators have similar schematics there are specific differences in each oscillators circuit board which make them sound unique and distinguishable from each other. Due to that the spectator can experience rich diversity and characteristics in the whole sound environment. The light sources are LED lights which changes are composed to affect and control the whole sound and light environment - so called artificial garden where the spectator can experience constantly changing environment on which he/she has influence by moving in the space, creating light reflections and shadows. Due to the concurrence of sound and light and the interactive characteristics of the installation the space 'becomes' independently functioning environment where the sound generators are the habitants of the 'created' environment.