A Great Mess

Theatre: WAUHAUS
Premiere: 24.8.2021
Produced / co-produced by: HAM, Helsinki Biennial, ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, WAUHAUS. Supported by: Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Center Finland, City of Helsinki, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Konstsamfundet, Tre Smeder Foundation, Kulturfondet
A Great Mess

The performance approaches the site as a historically unique multispecies meeting place. It looks at how the place came into being through the interaction of soil, countless organisms, and human imagination. A Great Mess visualizes how the vast web of interdependencies in which we exist with other species has gradually evolved and continues to evolve each day. The performance will be adapted to a new site in Kuopio as part of ANTI Contemporary Art Festival in September 2021, and can then be adapted to different landfills (explored together).

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, performers Per Ehrström and Sara Grotenfelt, and producer Mira Eskelinen.

Touring information

Running time at full length 180 minutes.
Interval no
Stage required (height/width/depth) outdoor, 60 hectars
Scale of show / Special requirements The performance is not fully accessible and is intended to be experienced walking through nature (outdoor, 60 hectars)
No. of people on tour 9
No. of performers 2
Used language English, Finnish, Swedish
Touring season This site sensitive piece can be adapted for different landfills.
Availability for workshop and educational work Yes

Key personnel

Directed by WAUHAUS arts collective
Written by WAUHAUS arts collective
Concept by WAUHAUS arts collective
Performers WAUHAUS arts collective
Lighting design WAUHAUS arts collective
Sound design WAUHAUS arts collective
Stage design WAUHAUS arts collective
Costume design WAUHAUS arts collective
Video design WAUHAUS arts collective
Other credits WAUHAUS arts collective

Contact information

Contact Julia Hovi
Position Producer /WAUHAUS
Telephone +358 452774560
Email info@wauhaus.fi

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