Recover Laboratory: Nonstop Paradise

The performance is part of the Helsinki Circus Festival programme

Nonstop Paradise is a hedonistic celebration of contemporary circus, performance, and sound and video art, striving towards paradise, hand in hand with both its pleasures and its horrors.

Nonstop Paradise is a fusion of performance, media art and contemporary circus. The work is a hedonistic celebration that destroys everything, just like the 2020s lifestyle. The circus-erotic performance reveals the individual’s tendency towards pleasure, daydreaming and perfectionism. The ideas are simple, but extremely romantic and therefore doomed to destruction. Beauty floats upside down and turns into horror.  The most touching connection is the recognition of the ugliness of the other and oneself, as well as death.

Kuva: Iida-Liina Linnea

Recover Laboratory (RecLab) is one of the pioneers of the Finnish site-specific and immersive art scene. The collective, which has been active since 2016, develops multidisciplinary art based on contemporary circus, visual art and experiential approach.

Kuva: Libor Galia, edit Miradonna Sirkka & Sofi Häkkinen

Helsinki Circus Festival is a new contemporary circus festival organised by Pro Sirkus Association, founded by Finnish circus artists. Cirko is delighted to be one of the festival’s partners.

Full programme, tickets and further information: https://www.helsinkicircusfestival.fi/