Nopeussokeus

WHS / Kalle Hakkarainen: Nopeussokeus

Nopeussokeus is new magic. It is a groundbreaking solo performance depicting the long seconds when a body and a machine collide. Nopeussokeus seeks interfaces between cinema and stage magic by creating on a theater stage scenes, that we are accustomed to seeing only in still pictures or in a film in slow motion. Speed Blindness gives the viewer a new perspective on how magic tricks and magic in general are performed and creates a hypnotic tension with its mixture of magic and visual arts.

Design, direction, performance: Kalle Hakkarainen
Music and sound design: Samuli Kosminen
Lighting design: Meri Ekola
Text: Harry Salmenniemi
Choreographic adviser: Jyrki Karttunen
Costume: Mila Moisio, Kaisa Rissanen
Properties: Kalle Hakkarainen, Juha Pakarinen, Timo Weman
Programming and projection design: Kalle Hakkarainen
High speed filming: Teemu Liakka
Lightning: Meri Ekola / Ainu Palmu

PRODUCTION: WHS, Kiasma Theatre, Karttunen Kollektiv

THANKS TO the Arts Council of Finland, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Leena Nio, Suho Nio, SoleusProteor, ProDisplay/Marko Ertunc, Tuukka Konttinen, Henrik Tanabe/ Olympus, Tuija Luukkainen, Matias Boettge, Markus Kåhre, Seppo Salminen, Silvia Hosseini, Ona Kamu, Anne, Matti and Ville, Kiasma Theatre, Jani-Matti Salo, Heikki Paasonen.

Duration: 35 minutes
Filmed 2010 in Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Can be performed in a double bill night with an other WHS show; Mortimer.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• nopeussokeus
• whs
• kalle hakkarainen
• ville walo
• magic
• juggling
• visual arts
• projektion
• kiasma
• karttunen
• samuli kosminen
• new magic
• magie nouvelle
• speed blindness