Tracing II: Near the edge but not even close

think of every blink of your eyes as 1 million years

Tracing II: Near the edge but not even close is a performance located on the Eurasian tectonic plate, more specifically in the Mustavuori cave area in Vuosaari, Helsinki. The audience is invited to take part in a guided tour into the deep time of Mustavuori. 

Combining performative lecture, recordings, and movement, and fluctuating between ethnographic-geological-historical and speculative fictions, the Tour Guide invites the audience to experience the becomings and the could-have-beens of the landscape. The performance, playfully yet in earnest, decentralises the human concept of time and temporality.

The past ghosts us, lies all about us less as layers, more as a drift. – We ghost the past, we are its eerie. - Robert Macfarlane

INFORMATION

Performance times: Sunday 17.8. at 14:00 and 17:00. 

Place: Mustavuori nature reserve (meeting point: parking lot of Mustavuori fortress). 

Duration: 1 hour.  

Language: English. 

Free entrance, limited to 10 participants per performance, please REGISTER HERE. 

Accessibility: The Mustavuori area is not accessible. The performance takes place outdoors, on a forest path and inside a cave. The forest paths are easy terrain, but there are a couple of spots with steeper steps and boulders along the way. In a case of a heavy rain or other unmanageable condition, the performance will be postponed. 

Participants will receive specific guidelines via email. 

CREDITS

Tracing II: Near the edge but not even close is a performance by Sonjis Laine. It is the second performance of Tracing, a practice-based project that deals with ethnographic research methods as artistic openings, and the construction of place and landscape through senses and fiction.

The work is part of Each day hides a grain of Sunday vol.2, Circus Maximus’ 2025 artist laboratory curated by Candama (Daniela Pascual Esparza). The laboratory is a collaboration with Artists with Evidence and the Architecture and Design Museum, and is supported by The City of Helsinki.

Special thanks to Veikko Peltonen, Francesca Bogani Amadori, João Luís Matos Lopes, Olga Spyropoulou, Tuuli Vahtola, Vane Virta, Reality Research Center.  

If you have any questions, please write to the curator Daniela at .