A Total Work of Art in C-major for Four Dancers on a Red Carpet

A Total Work of Art in C-major for four dancers on a red carpet (2016)

choreography Iiro Näkki
set design Virpi Nieminen
sound design Ville Kabrell
light & video design Mateus Manninen
costume design Maria Hämäläinen
performers Anna Stenberg, Johannes Hiltunen, Aino Purhonen, Laura Sorvari

duration 30 minutes

A Total Work of Art in C-major for four dancers on a red carpet is a site-specific monument for the concept of a total work of art. One after another, the piece turns everything into a spectacle that never reaches its climax: the space, the movement of the audience, the appearance of the performance crew, and the artefacts of the space. Throughout the piece, the moment of an end is visibly drawing closer, as an enormous clock ticks towards point zero.