Elina Vainio "Nosewitness (considering circulations)" (2022)

Vainio about the performance score Nosewitness (considering circulations): The incense is made from dried moss and spruce resin collected from over 100-year-old Norwegian spruce trees (Picea abies) from Central Finland. I was drawn to the idea of how the burning of incense would provide its own understated 'meta performance' which, at the same time, would open up a space and time to consider smaller and larger loops of life's circulation or support systems that are self-evident and therefore overlooked (organic growth/decay, blood circulation, planetary orbits etc.) The incense burns for approx. 20 minutes and the audience is free to wander around, no need to stare at the incense the whole time.

The score was performed at Nordic Sessions # 4 by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen.