Annukka Pykäläinen
The performance was built in
Teatria – former factory hall size
900m2. The passage to the stage
area was narrow and the roof was
made out of book pages and letters.
To the stage area opened massive
wooden gates.

Basis for the designing was to place
the spectator inside of a variable
space and alter the space from
secure to unprotected, the specators
experience from large to small and
to change the earthly stage resemble
the timeless sky.

In the materials and constructions
there was a distinct aim to be able
to vary them by using light. The new
walls were built around the stage
and auditoriums. The wall was unite
with the wall behind the stage and
formed a limited safe interior.

The walls were made out of paper.
They were made transparent by using
paint, oil and varnish. By using the
transparent walls the stage turned
into unlimited exterior. The safe
and bordered interior altered by
light into a dangerous limit state
and was constantly changing.
The stage was built in the
middle of the hall in a form of wedge.
The audience was split in two facing each
other sides. The stage was lifted and
it could be lid from below thus making
the steel and brick floor weightless.

On the back wall of the stage was a huge
window. In the beginning it was covered
with a silk curtain. Being airy and
bright it limited the interior on the
stage. When the war was closing the
wind lifted the curtain into a storm.

When the curtain falled it unveiled
the window. Behind the window
was a gigantic machine and its
wheels. The gigantic macine altered
tha scale on the stage. It also
defined a new interior when
the mutiny spred and the workers
conquered the fabric. The macine
was mechanical and in the middle
of the terror it was started. It was
still moving when the war faded
and the stage was washed from
the stains.