The Otherside Festival, Helsinki, Finland. 2025. Photo by Negin Aladdin

The stages of the performance:

  1. There is a spotlight on the installation, and the performer is outside. The central alarm candle is off.
  2. The performer enters the space and stands in the center. He has two candles in his hands.
  3. He turns the central candle on, and the sound starts to play.
  4. The performer turns the candles in his hand and covers his eyes.
  5. He puts the portable candles on his eyes and starts to walk around the nail line slowly. (The light could be set up based on the situation to have the best view.)
  6. While walking, he reads a poem*. (The poem has a circular structure)
  7. After finishing the playing sound (the candle alarm is almost synced with the sound time), he stops in the center again. The light in the space goes off completely, but the central candle remains on.
  8. The performer leaves the space, and after him, the space light comes back. 

 

*An Anaphora poem (The Circular Structure)

… That echo of a name, without any consonants, from the mouth of a God with frozen feet and severed toes*, passing through millions of eyeless faces whose ears were cut off in awe of… 


 

*This part refers to the myth of Aurvandill

The departed vowels of the poem: (stressing while reading the poem by the performer)
>> /æ/ /e/ /oʊ/ /ə/ /ə/ /eɪ/ /ɪ/ /aʊ/ /e/ /i/ /ɑ/ /ə/ /ə/ /ɑ/ /ə/ /aʊ/ /ə/ /ə/ /ɑ/ /ɪ/ /oʊ/ /ə/ /i/ /ə/ /e/ /ə/ /oʊ/ /æ/ /ɪ/ /u/ /ɪ/ /ə/ /ə/ /aɪ/ /ə/ /eɪ/ /ɪ/ /u/ /ɪr/ /ɚ/ /ʌ/ /ɑ/ /ɪ/ /ɔː/ /ə/ >>
 
 

Earendel (WHL0137-LS) . The most distant, earliest star ever detected
The Performance scene before beginning. Photo by Negin Aladdin