Synopsis

In autumn 2024, Reality Research Center (RRC) explored the relationship between performance, documentation, reality and memory in the frame of Moving in November. RRC members, artists Alina Sakko and Emma Fält were invited to recall two works from the Moving in November in 2022 without having witnessed them : Matilda Aaltonen and Veli Lehtovaara’s Performing Animalities – A Praxis and Tuomas Laitinen’s Audience Body.

Is it possible to remember a performance without having experienced it?

In her site-specific performance, Exercise on empathy [a score for performing a human], Alina Sakko continues her work from last year. “This year, I will return to the memories of my thoughts and dances from last autumn. I will ask myself, what do I want to relive and share from the moments at Sörnäinen metro station, what do I want to give more time to, what can remain as memories at the metro station, and what kind of desires and questions does the new space bring up.”

Score of being an animal

-I behave according to the social rules the society has made.

-My eyes might be on the sides of my head.

-I have limbs. Some amount.

-I have no limbs.

-I want to be accepted?

-My coccyx might continue as a tail.

-I have names for things.

-Arms might be wings, arms might be arms, there might be no arms. I might want to fly.

-I might know how to jump really high and far.

-I know theories explained by words that explain my existence.

-I want to be loved?

Choreography, performance, scenography, text (unless mentioned otherwise)

Alina Sakko

Music

Forever Young - Alphaville

Mentoring

Olga Spyropoulou, Kerstin Schroth

In collaboration with

Reality Research Centre, Cultural Centre Stoa

Performed at

Lobby of Stoa, Helsinki, FI. As part of Focus on the Local Landscape by Moving in November - festival

Performance recording by request