Petrolio
Niko Hallikainen
Petrolio is a performance poet and writer Niko Hallikainen a new solo work that explores the different manifestations of energy crises. The language of the work is English.
The theatre is a spatial apparatus that runs on representations of struggle. Before anyone on stage is allowed to perform answers to the questions that haunt us, we're forced to reproduce vistas of intergenerational pain. Human flesh labors over societal ills in the hope of momentary liberation, some passing sense of release, only to return to this birthplace of neurotic suffering night after night. The theatre's historical addiction to social oppression and emotional agony is analogous to the Western world's dependence on fossil fuels.
Pier Paolo Pasolini was run over several times by his own car, murdered under unclear circumstances.
The theatrical reiterations of social stratification undervalue humanity as negligently as the ongoing deliberate rise in living costs and energy prices.
Working group:
Performance, text and sound: Niko Hallikainen
Lights: Oskari Ruuska
Sponsored by Kone Foundation
Residencies:Acme's Mind the Gap Residency in collaboration with The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland
Production by Niko Hallikainen, Mad House Helsinki
Photo by Jaakko Uoti