A sound as if something were being dragged under shards of glass. A crocodile mouth frozen open. Something glows. Keeps leaking. Maybe the space is particularly warm. An image of a voiceless crowd roaring. Hands clenched into cheering fists pulse while sinking down. A figure appears in the space, soaking wet. A hissing mouth. Sluggish stepping. Quiet humming: lovelove love lovelove

​

Nowhere is left untouched by its dark presence depicts corporeality as a site of diverse unconscious influences, flows, and entanglements. The work examines questions emerging from the present moment concerning the uncontrollable and its experientiality, in a mode that proliferates and spills over into multiplicity – while retaining layered interconnections.

​

Tuija Lappalainen’s new stage work engages with philosopher Timothy Morton’s ecological thinking, in which living and non-living beings, organisms, materials and environments are inextricably intertwined. Morton’s concept of dark ecology approaches this as an experience that is at once intimate, uncanny and ungovernable.

​

Steaming within the entanglements of three performers’ multidirectional desires, resistance and estrangement, the stage opens to the indeterminacies in a space pressurized by the tension between wetness and dryness and asks: what can the body speak of all this?

​

 Concept, Choreography, and Direction: Tuija Lappalainen
Performers: Iiris Hilden, Maria Mäkelä and Pauliina Sjöberg

Costume Design: Pauliina Sjöberg

Scenography: Tuija Lappalainen
Lighting Design: Luca Sirviö
Sound Design: Johanna Porola

Images: Tuija Lappalainen

​

Residency 2025: Art Space Kutomo, Ehkä-production

​Ehkä-tuotanto co-production 2026

Premier 1.10.2026, Kutomo Art space, Turku  

​