Anne Naukkarinen and working group: Carried by Invisible Bodies

Carried by invisible bodies from one person to another
You don't know how you're gonna react
And when you do react
You react with body parts you didn't know you had
Very small ones, like, you know, all the little hairs you don't normally feel in your body

-Carried by Invisible Bodies, Lost Girls

The performance Carried by Invisible Bodies is a memory holder. It’s also something else, like a possibility to re-imagine. Bodies’ movements, words, sculptures, and harp music are echoes of something that was once given. They are traces of a repetition that carries, strains, bores and caresses us.

Alongside dancing, sculpting, playing the harp and reciting poetry are some of the oldest forms of art making. Carried by Invisible Bodies creates a poetical space where the present moment, personal histories and non-human perspectives of time are weaved together. Materials like clay, wax and hay follow their own processes of growth and formation, while the artists' bodies and their ways of making art are connected to layers of human cultural history. The music by Natalia Castrillón, a poem by Maarit Mustonen, and sculptures by Niina Tervo are gathered together and brought in conversation in Anne Naukkarinen's choreography.

Credits

Choreography, dance: Anne Naukkarinen
Harpist: Natalia Castrillón
Sculptor: Niina Tervo
Poet: Maarit Mustonen
Producer: Riikka Thitz / i dolci
Conversation partners: Laura Cemin, Sara Grotenfelt, Venla Helenius, Tiago Martins Pinto

Production: Anne Naukkarinen, Titanik/Arte ry, MAA-tila project space
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, City of Helsinki
In collaboration with: Ehkä-production, i dolci
Residencies: Arts Centre BUDA (BE), Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku, FI)