Conversations with Ants evening is a part of collaborative project led by choreographer Sanna Kekäläinen. The first stage of the project was realized in Portugal in September 2025. The concept of the work centers on the idea of visiting. Local performers will visit the work and continue the performance event with their own presentations. In November 2025 Conversations with Ants -evening in Helsinki begins with Conversations with Ants by Sanna Kekäläinen and continues to Ordinary Matters by the local project guest, choreographer Heli Keskikallio. Kekäläinen is working with author Kari Hukkila with the aim of linking the principles of ants’ activity to the theme of the Anthropocene.
Why the ants?
Ants are a kind of biological and global double for humans: only ants and humans have spread all over the globe except Antarctic.
Speculative estimations have been presented that the common weight of all ants would be roughly equal with the common weight of all humans.
But there is also a difference of crucial importance: if all humans were to disappear from the earth, it would take a long time for the biosphere to recover from the damage humans have caused. If ants were to disappear from the biosphere, in a very short span of time, the whole biosphere would become uninhabitable.
This evening is a part of the Focus on the Local Landscape within the frame of Moving in November 6.-16.11.2025. As part of the festival, there will be an open Soup Talk discussion with the Focus on the Local Landscape artists hosted by Anna Kozonina on the 16th of November at 13 in Eskus.
Cable factory • K&C tila, 00180 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
