all traces of strange dreaming is a collective performative experience based on the worldview of H.P Lovecraft. the performance will be the foundation of a upcoming festival ... ,
but meanwhile no more must be told.
With and by
Niko Arola
Hanna Kahrola
Oona Leinonen
Nelli Ojapalo
Ida Teeri
Janina Salmela
Wilma Seppälä
Elina Valtonen
Ida starts
( everyone fade in )
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Niko
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things
( everyone fade in )
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Niko
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things