Transparent Surfaces

What remains, when we abandon matter? Contemporary circus piece Transparent Surfaces is a farewell ritual to consumer culture and to an ownership-centred worldview.

The piece builds an altar out of scrap and human bodies, with the performers joining together alternatively with each other and with scraps of metal. The lack of conventional circus equipment gives rise to distinctive movement and grotesque aesthetics.

Barbora Xu’s magical guzheng music guides viewers and performers through the stages of the ritual.

Direction: Tuomas Vuorinen
Circus performers: Aino Savolainen, Jere Virta, Tuomas Vuorinen
Music: Barbora Xu Sound design: Petteri Rajanti
Light design: Kauri Klemelä
Artistic discussion: Saana Peura, Inga Björn

Performance duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Age recommendation: 10-year-olds and up

The performance is wordless.
The performance utilises theatrical smoke and strobe lights.