Sinna Virtanen „Asphodel Meadows” / SAAL Biennaal 2025, 23 August | Event in Tallinn | AllEvents

Sinna Virtanen „Asphodel Meadows” / SAAL Biennaal 2025

SAAL Biennaal

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Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

1.5 hours

Hundipea

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Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm (EEST)

Hundipea

Paljassaare tee 20, Tallinn, Estonia

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Sinna Virtanen „Asphodel Meadows” / SAAL Biennaal 2025
Sinna Virtanen „Asphodel Meadows”

23. august / 18:00
24. august / 14:00 + 18:00

(eng below)

„Asphodel Meadows” on kohaspetsiifiline teos, mis oma südames on Balti mererohuniitudest ning peidetud kurbusest, mida pole leinatud. See sündis vajadusest teha kurbusele ruumi, vajadusest vaadata merd, vajadusest vaadata merre. Lavastus põimib oma publiku angerjaheina sisse, jätab aega eelaimdusteks ning pakub ruumi peidetud kurbusele.

„Et oleks punavetikad, mille embus võtab endasse
Et oleks pilliroog, mille õõnsustes mõned aastad elada, või kasvõi üks aasta
Et lülituda välja, olla tegevusetu, pikaks ajaks.
Et kõik oleks vee embuses.
Veealused niidud, olemaks nende olemasolus kindel, seal on niidud.
Angerjaheinaniidud,
tavaliselt ei õitse
Kuid kui õitsevad, on õisik lehtedeta
Need põimuvad, liiguvad kiirelt aeglaselt lõputult viltuse ringi ümber
oma sfääriliselt hargnevate risoomidega.
Ning seal on vetikaid ning on merinõelad,
veealused niidud on meis endis.”

Sinna Virtanen on lavastaja, näitekirjanik ja multidistsiplinaarne kunstnik. Virtanen omandas 2015. aastal magistrikraadi Soome Teatriakadeemias, näitekirjanduse ja dramaturgia osakonnas. Sellest ajast alates on ta töötanud mitmete teatri-, kino- ja kaasaegse kunsti projektides nii Soomes kui ka rahvusvaheliselt. Virtanen on tegutsenud laialdaselt multidistsiplinaarse kunstnikuna, nii soolokunstnikuna kui ka osana gruppidest, nii institutsioonilises kui ka vabakutselises kontekstis, töötades nii mustas kui ka valges kastis, ent ka kohaspetsiifiliselt. Tema tööd mängivad alati aja ja ruumi mõistetega, paiknedes piiridel, liminaalruumides, ulatudes minevikku ja tulevikku, kujutlusvõimesse ja järelmaailma. Tema tööd sünnivad alati erinevate kunstivormide põimumiskohtades.

Piletid: https://fienta.com/et/s/asphodel-meadows

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Asphodel Meadows is a site-specific work that, at its heart, is about the seagrass meadows of the Baltic Sea and a hidden sorrow that has not been grieved. The work was born out of a need to create space for sorrow, a need to look at the sea, a need to look in the sea. The performance entwines its audience in eelgrass, gives time for premonitions, and offers space for hidden sadness.

“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 a lopsided circle,
with their spherically branching rhizomes.
And there are algaes and there are broad-nosed pipefish,
underwater meadows are in us.”

Sinna Virtanen is a director, playwright, and multidisciplinary artist. Virtanen completed her Master’s Degree at the Finnish Theatre Academy in 2015, from the Playwright and Dramaturgy Department. Since then, she has worked in a wide variety of theatre, cinema and contemporary art projects both in Finland and internationally. Virtanen has worked extensively as a multidisciplinary artist, as a solo artist and as a part of different groups, both institutional and freelance contexts, in black and white box spaces, but also site specifically. Her works always play with notions of time and space, sitting on the boundaries, in liminal spaces, reaching into the past and the future, into imagination and afterlives. The works are always conceived in the interconnecting surfaces of different art forms.

Tickets: https://fienta.com/s/asphodel-meadows

Kontseptsioon, dramaturgia, tekst, lavastamine / Concept, dramaturgy, text, director: Sinna Virtanen
Helikujundus / Sound design: Tatu Nenonen
Etendajad / Performers: Malou Zilliacus, Geoffrey Erista / Markus Riuttu
Kostüümid / Costume design: Samu-Jussi Koski

Sinna Virtanen on saanud mobiilsustoetust Põhja- ja Baltimaade Kultuuri mobiilsusprogrammist / Sinna Virtanen received mobility funding from the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture

Kestus / Duration: 90’
Inglise keeles / In English


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Sinna Virtanen „Asphodel Meadows” / SAAL Biennaal 2025, 23 August | Event in Tallinn | AllEvents
Sinna Virtanen „Asphodel Meadows” / SAAL Biennaal 2025
Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm