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AVALOKITESHVARA SUPERCLUSTERS<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Photo Paula Tella<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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AVALOKITESHVARA SUPERCLUSTERS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The participatory open air performance Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em> consists of a multipart collective exercise in compassion. The goal of the performance is the experience of fundamental equality of all beings and entities in our universe. The performance combines Avalokiteshvara<\/em>, the Buddhist embodiment of compassion, with superclusters<\/em>, the largest known structures in the visible universe. The performance takes place at the outskirts of the city, in wastelands, where the natural and the constructed realities meet in random, aleatory and uncontrolled manners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name of the performance comes from Buddhist lore. According to legend, Avalokiteshvara was an ancient Buddhist novice, who alone tried to respond to the challenge of universal compassion. The compassion of Avalokiteshvara towards all beings eventually became so infinite that it tore him to a multitude of pieces. When the other Buddhas rushed to help Avalokiteshvara and reassembled his disintegrated body, the result was a multi-headed, multi-armed and multi-eyed Buddha, an embodiment of cosmic compassion. Varying the legend of Avalokiteshvara, the participants of the Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em> performance collectively create an endlessly shapeshifting cosmic structure which joins them with all the entities in our universe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superclusters are the largest known structures that have been identified in the known universe. They are groups of galaxies shaped and held together by the opposing forces of gravity, dark energy and the expansion of the universe. Our own supercluster is called Laniakea<\/em>, which is Hawaian for open skies<\/em> or immense heaven<\/em>. In Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em> we try to expand our circle of compassion so wide that it covers not only our own supercluster but also beyond, including all entities and beings in the entire universe.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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COMPASSION<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em> is motivated by the current planetary situation, where immigration, disintegration and congestion are states common to all of us, transforming and unifying our bodies. What moves all those restless, placeless bodies and keeps them together? According to the working hypothesis of Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em>, that force is universal compassion which can be felt and exercised only after our bodies have become strange enough to one another! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compassion is not merely a feeling, but a comprehensive change in attitude and position, which applies to everyone of us and reaches beyond ourselves as humans. Our aim must be cosmic compassion, a limitless compassion towards all beings, regardless of their size, scale and position in the universe. This drive towards compassion for all entities alike, is a challenge that affects everyone, and to address this challenge we need to practice!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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WRITINGS AND REVIEWS<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Maria S\u00e4k\u00f6: Toisissa tiloissa -ryhm\u00e4n uutuus tarjoaa kosmista my\u00f6t\u00e4tuntoa j\u00e4tt\u00f6maalla \u2013 Avalokiteshvara Superclusters tapahtuu yhdess\u00e4 yleis\u00f6n kanssa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helsingin Sanomat 26.7.2017. Meri Liukkonen: Pukukoodina m\u00f6kkivaatteet: osallistava ulkoilmateos t\u00e4ht\u00e4\u00e4 kosmiseen my\u00f6t\u00e4tuntoon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kulttuurikuuri -blog 25.7.2017. Tuomas Rantanen: Esitystaiteen tilah\u00e4irik\u00f6t<\/a>, Voima 18.9.2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuomas Rantanen: \u201cKaikki maailman koivut, yhtyk\u00e4\u00e4!\u201d<\/a>, Voima 19.10.2017.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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YOU CAN ALSO EXPERIENCE AVALOKITESHVARA AS A WORKSHOP<\/strong>!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Through the workshop version of Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em>, audiences have practiced compassion and cosmic dimensions in Chiaravalle (Italy), the Forest Festival of the Helsinki Adult Education Centre, and the Baltic Circle Festival. More info and booking a workshop: info@toisissatiloissa.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avalokiteshvara Superclusters <\/em>is preferentially organised without ticket sales. Instead, the participants finance the protection of a portion of our planet. The participants of the 2017 performances protected a total of 2780 square meters of forest. See here<\/a> for the protected area, and a lot of other material about Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Avalokiteshvara Superclusters<\/em> pyrit\u00e4\u00e4n j\u00e4rjest\u00e4m\u00e4\u00e4n p\u00e4\u00e4syliputtomana. P\u00e4\u00e4sylippujen sijaan osallistujat lunastavat palan planeettaa suojeltavaksi. Vuoden 2017 esityksiin osallistuneet suojelivat yhteens\u00e4 2780 neli\u00f6metrillist\u00e4 mets\u00e4\u00e4. Katso alue<\/a>, joka esityksell\u00e4 suojeltiin, sek\u00e4 paljon muuta teoksesta.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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