In this participatory performance, artists Olga Spyropoulou and Katriina Kettunen explore how disappointments occur and how they persist, stored in little pockets of memory called “things” and then put away yet in close proximity.

The performance is an intimate encounter between two performers, a box of troublesome objects, and a small audience. During the one-hour-long performance, the artists share fragments of their lives through a close inspection of these objects and ask the audience for help in organising them in a display that leaves everyone happy. For a moment.

To organise our disappointments is part of the Reality Research Center’s OFF programme in 2020 and 2021.

Performances:

May 27–30, 2021 Mad House Helsinki

Aug 31, 2020 Cultural Center Stoa, Helsinki
Sep 2, 2020 Cultural Center Stoa, Helsinki
Sep 6, 2020 Kunsthalle Turku, in collaboration with New Performance Turku festival and Turun Taidehalli

Cover image: Saara Autere
Images below: Julius Töyrylä / New Performance Turku Festival 2020