Maria Metsalu: Kultuur

Kultuur contemplates the Sun. Performance not as thesis but as experience – something between a piano concert and a finger-painted surface.

Kultuur accommodates chaos and rejects it. Intensities vary between states of pleasure, indifference, suffering and hope for renewal. Metsalu displays herself as an object of spectacle, then denies the spectacle. We face Kultuur as an audience, a collective body. This body will be fed, entertained and challenged.

The performance is divided into three baroque and splendorous movements – the parade at the hot dog cart, the concert of the Flower and the final consumption of the Sun, table d’hôte. Kultuur is a celebration of life – of its fleeting, sensual nature. A desire for simplicity exists in tension with the allure of excess.

Maria Metsalu is an Estonian artist who uses her own body to explore contemporary issues, often employing sexually loaded means of expression. 

Kiasma Theatre

15.-16.3.2024

Performances

15.3. at 18.00
16.3. at 14.00

Tickets 25 / 15 €, duration 2 h

Performed in English, age limit 18 yrs