PERFORMANCE WAGON

n the summertime there’s kiosks serving ice cream to city dwellers and sightseeing tours to tourists in every street corner in Helsinki. This year you can also find one kiosk where you can buy something suitable for an adventurer. Performance Wagon has a menu of fifteen performances that you can buy and enjoy instantly.

The performances vary from small trips to improvised shows that are built with the audience or are based on their wishes. The selection also has some performances without a performer. These you can order as take away and enjoy in your own time. The performances explore work, utopias and the city amongst other themes. We invite you to wonder, play and take a look at your surroundings from a new perspective. 

Performance Wagon is part of the main program of Reality Research Center (RRC) on its 20th anniversary in 2021. The wagon is a surprising and adventurous form for a performance and, in this way, typical for the collective. The performances of the wagon menu offer a glimpse to the 20-year long history of RRC. Some of them are new versions of timeless performances and some of them are new fruits of the research done by the artists. Adhere to the philosophy of RRC, they are experiential, participatory, multisensory and indifferent to the traditional meaning of performance. They’re made to make you laugh and get serious, to stop and to take a new direction: to research what reality is, and what should it be like.