The Sauna performance is an interactive live performance exploring traditional finnish sauna traditions by transforming sauna action to an industrial North American environment.
Finnish sauna has connected human spirits closer to themselves, the nature and each others for centuries. Sauna heals and purifies the mind and the body through extreme conditions of heat, cold and vulnerability. Preparing a sauna can be a meditative ritual, and essential part of every day life.
Sauna Performance consisted of two parts. The first part was the journey with the audience through the industrial building to the third floor where the 2nd part, the sauna performance itself, took place.
During the journey trough the building we claimed the space by marking and painting the space, and by collecting the "vasta" branch which further on was used by the performers in body paint action as a metaphor for healing "vasta" action in real sauna.
Through Sauna Performance Pilvi claimed a metaphorical space to preserve, practice and share her culture while living in Montreal, Quebec, Kanada.
Credits to the 2nd camera/photography Roberto DAvonzo