Abundance – Feels like flying

Abundance – Feels Like Flying is a performance about money and shame. It’s a sappy cocktail mixing fear of scarcity, dreams of abundance and our desperate need to fit in.

– I never thought that money mattered.

I started my MA studies at the Theatre Academy in the autumn of 2023. I was facing an amazing opportunity: I could spend two years focusing only on learning new things, testing artistic ideas and playing around. I only had one challenge: creating was difficult, because I was constantly thinking about money. I was old already and I should have taken life more seriously. At the same time, a real artist should be able to exist above money and other mundane matters. I decided to make a performance about how money steers our lives and what in it makes us so ashamed.

The performance oscillates between a neoliberalist angel choir proclaiming the gospel of money, and the dreams and fears of the mortals facing it. Awkward situations and tacky emotions were the most natural route into the absurd dystopy in which I feel myself living in our contemporary society. Day to day life is sugar high distorted kitsch, that drowns us in its meaninglessness. The world is crazy and so am I.

I managed to make art for two years, because I decided to make a performance about money. Secretly I think that money doesn’t matter. None of this matters.

Performances: Theatre Hall of Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, 2025

Production: University of the Arts, Helsinki

Working group: Anna Korolainen Crevier, Joma Richter, Senja Rajalin, Essi Parkas, Aapo Salonen, Patrik Hvitsjö, Virva Myllyaho, Heikki Turppo, Iia Walavaara, Aino Käki, Niina Saarelainen and Ansku Parviainen.