Simo Kellokumpu is a Finnish choreoreader, choreographer, and researcher based in Helsinki. Kellokumpu received his doctorate in 2019 from the Performing Arts Research Centre, Tutke, Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. Kellokumpu’s artistic works examine the choreographic relations between corporeality and materiality in various scales and contexts. His work operates in the entanglement of contemporary speculative fiction, interplanetary culture, and queer(ing) space. Currently he is conducting a postdoctoral artistic research project at Tutke, entitled Xeno-/exo-/astro-/choreoreadings. Kellokumpu is a founding member of the artistic research cluster Q̶͈̬̿͝l̴̛̬̝̒o̵̰̍̔ǘ̴̼ḓ̷̟̓̅s̷̻̦̆Q̠̿͒u̷͓͚͊̽A̘͝r̷̖͈̀͝ṭ̶̏͘z̶̩̩͛ -, with Outi Condit and Vincent Roumagnac. simokellokumpu.org