MANUAL is a performance that takes place in a public library and is experienced by one person at a time. Staged covertly in the library during open hours, viewers arrive on site with instructions to meet a performer at a particular time and location. From there they are led silently through a series of tiny actions together, following written notes and immersive audio in headphones.
Using found materials in the library, the performer stages a surprisingly immersive and intimate sensory experience. They walk through the space and listen together. They look at books and read to each other. Fragments of photographs, texts, and sound recordings blur into one another. And as the piece progresses the materials they encounter come to form a manual for slowing down.
Intermingling with the daily life of the library, MANUAL reflects on the act of listening and the intimacy of reading with another person in a public space. Through a carefully guided participatory experience, the piece invites viewers to engage with the library as a site of deep sensory awareness, and to reflect on the social and technological conditions of shared attention.
Creation: Adam Kinner and Christopher Willes
Dramaturgy: Hanna Sybille Müller
Dancers: Heta Haapsamo, Nella Turkki, Ella Valkola, Suvi Rinkineva
9.–12.9.2026
Oulun Central Library Saari
Performances for one person starts each 20 minutes. Duration 50 min.
You'll be able to choose the time when registering.
Ke 9.9. klo 10:30-18:10
To 10.9. klo 10:30-18:10
Pe 11.9. klo 10:30-18:10
La 12.9. klo 10:30-14:50