Marja Kangas (FI): Letter

This piece describes a state of mind after losing someone close to you. The person is cut off from his kind and the mind is injured. Crisis is a lonely process. A person needs his peers, a surface to reflect on, and when the peer is gone the contact is empty. Still the urge to talk exists.

In this piece a woman can be heard talking: “Because I’ll never see you again I have to write this letter.” “Letter” is a monologue that you can listen to in the crisis centre. The speech is directed to a person that has disappeared, died or left. The important thing is that people actually do say something and open towards.

Marja Kangas is a performance artist whose background is in the theatre. The starting points of her work are text and space and she is especially interested in private space. In her performances Kangas deals with being as a process of falling; that what I am, continually drops away from me. Being is longing for something and thereby always imperfect. And yet: Existence is a continous opportunity.