Asphodel Meadows

& and dramaturg, director, playwright, and freelance artist Sinna Virtanen and her working group invite you to the Karhusaari beach. A performance born out of a Pro Artibus archipelago residency, and developed next to marine biologists doing field work, Asphodel Meadows entwines its audience in eelgrass, gives time for premonitions, and offers space for hidden sadness. This intimate work playfully inhabits the crossroads between costume art, soundscapes, body language, and the mysterious elements of the sea.

For there to be red algae whose embrace encircles one
For there be reeds whose interstices to inhabit for some years, even for one year
To switch off, to be inactive, for a long time.
For all to be submerged.
Underwater meadows, to be sure they exist, there are meadows.
Eelgrass meadow,
it normally doesn’t bloom
but if it does the inflorescence is without tepals
they entwine, they move quickly slowly eternally around lopsided circle,
with their spherically branching rhizomes.
And there are algas and there are broadnosed pipefish,
underwater meadows are in us.

& in co-operation with Pro Artibus Foundation