In Ten journeys to a place where nothing happens the artist Juha Valkeapää and the musician Taito Hoffrén invite the audience into a tent. There they serve pancakes and coffee while they tell their stories. The biggest challenge for them, or so they say, is to do nothing. Simply to be. In this they sometimes succeed and sometimes don‘t.

The core of the performance is the diary that is constantly updated. While the audience enjoys the pancakes Valkeapää & Hoffrén contemplate life’s big questions play music and show video clips. Next to the tent there is a camper van. It acts as transport, a kitchen, toilet, side stage, dressing room and store room. In summer it is a bedroom too.

Valkeapää and Hoffrén started this journey to a place where nothing happens in 2005. It was the year Valkeapää’s father died and Hoffrén’s first daughter was born. It has been a long, dark and winding road, but eventually, five years on the performance premiered at the Baltic Circle festival in Helsinki. Nordwind Dresden will be their 12th journey.

http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl815/voice.php

Concept / Performance / Production: Juha Valkeapää, Taito Hoffrén
Co-production: Baltic Circle
Supported by Arts Council of Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finnish Embassy, TINFO, Finland Institute in Germany