Snail Highway was performed in performance evening Proveromet as part of BIT Teatergarasjen festival Oktoberdans in Hordeland Kunstsenter, Bergen.

Snail Highway is a exercise on human and snail perception, involving small scale scenography and spatial audio. More about the piece here: https://beate.poikane.com/snail-highway-2024-metropolis-copenhagen/

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 and sensuality, 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. Pre-recorded voice detached from a body in national geographic obsservations slowly fails to introduce the snail being  invites spectatorss to give up the visual sense, alowing their hand to become a snail extension of their own body.