A Great Mess
sA Great Mess is a site-sensitive performance that approaches the site as a historically unique multispecies meeting place. The performance takes place during sunset and journeys among sun-scorched thymes, discarded matter, porous skin, surrendering, earthmoving machines, and the landscapes of human imagination.
A Great Mess offers new perspectives on the vast web of interdependencies in which we exist together with other organisms and materials.
The members of the WAUHAUS arts collective involved in this piece are Laura Haapakangas, Anni Klein, Samuli Laine, Jussi Matikainen and Jarkko Partanen, with additional contributions by evolutionary biologist Aura Raulo and performers Per Ehrström and Sara Grotenfelt, producer-performer Mira Eskelinen, curator Kristiina Ljokkoi. set design assistans Siiri Matinpuro and Mikko Salminen, and sound design assistant Timo Tikka. The producer of WAUHAUS is Julia Hovi.
Production: HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki Biennial, ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival & WAUHAUS
Supported by: Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, City of Helsinki, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder sr, Konstsamfundet, Kulturfonden
Performed in Helsinki and Kuopio, autumn 2021.
Photos 1 and 3 Katri Naukkarinen, 2 and 4 Thomas Plischke
A Great Mess offers new perspectives on the vast web of interdependencies in which we exist together with other organisms and materials.
The members of the WAUHAUS arts collective involved in this piece are Laura Haapakangas, Anni Klein, Samuli Laine, Jussi Matikainen and Jarkko Partanen, with additional contributions by evolutionary biologist Aura Raulo and performers Per Ehrström and Sara Grotenfelt, producer-performer Mira Eskelinen, curator Kristiina Ljokkoi. set design assistans Siiri Matinpuro and Mikko Salminen, and sound design assistant Timo Tikka. The producer of WAUHAUS is Julia Hovi.
Production: HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki Biennial, ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival & WAUHAUS
Supported by: Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, City of Helsinki, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder sr, Konstsamfundet, Kulturfonden
Performed in Helsinki and Kuopio, autumn 2021.
Photos 1 and 3 Katri Naukkarinen, 2 and 4 Thomas Plischke