The performance is a sensory elegy that mourns our loss of connection to arboreal kin. Interweaving movement, sound and images, the work invites the audience into the entangled connections between an ancient oak grove, the human body and more-than-human beings — a ritual in the presence of a vanishing nature.

This interdisciplinary performance installation emerges from the Entanglement collective’s field research in the ancient oak grove of Vaarniemi, Kaarina — a Natura 2000 site explored through listening and sensory attention since 2022.

The collective’s artistic exploration generates an unfolding aesthetic-embodied ecosystem, stimulating the senses and emotions, and is intended to prompt contemplation about our role in preserving biodiversity.

The performance is directed for adult audiences.
Doors will close at the start of the performance; no late entry is allowed.

Credits
Concept, choreography, performance: Maria Nurmela
Concept, moving and still image, spatial design: Vesa Loikas
Concept, composition and performance: Jane Sheldon
Sound design: Jaakko Vastapuu
Lighting and spatial design: Erno Seppälä
Performance: Gesa Piper, Riina Kalmi, Jonna Eiskonen
Mentor, artistic research: Bart H.M. Vandeput
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland, Turku City – välitilat, Barker Theatre, JSKD Ljubljana

Tickets: https://kiasma.fi/en/performances/entanglement-i-am-a-tree-i-am-a-mouth/