A performative sketch ‘Snail highway’ was developed at Metropolis residency, Copenhagen extending from snail chapter in my previous work ‘Air reservoir’.  In this month I was working with  a speculative fantasy and site-sensitive method through small scale scenography and spatial sound dramaturgy. Here I chose to dwell into a chapter devoted to snails, it is a playfull suggestion to imagine a different sensory mapping of the world and perception of speed, while touching upon our human-bodied limitations to feel along with our soft-bodied companions. The piece is in conversation with decentralisation of human in the performing arts. My process was informed by a phone call with Rikka Vuonrenmaa, who generously shared her personal observations of their behaviours and by Montana university research on land snail sensorial orientation.

For the Snail Highway I wrote a new text which was vocalised by me and Josephine Sommer. Within the given framework I was exploring aesthetics of tech use in a landscape, it emerged from a wish to place a pre-recorded voice detached from a body, leading to a merge of organic and cyborg shapes. Tripods became media-player holders and lamps at the same time and speakers started to take a shape of snail organs. The sketch was performed on the forbidden beach on the last day of September, to enter it visitors were guided thought a hole in a fence. In the end of the piece spectators are invited to sit down in a concrete ‘amphitheatre’ and give up the visual sense, alowing their hand to become a snail extension of their body.