The performances of Recover Laboratory’s artistic directors Miradonna Sirka and Sofi Häkkinen are the duo’s distinctive way of looking at the world, where the everyday becomes surreal, and humour and vulnerability are present at the same time.

The Life and Death brings together elements of performance art, DJ & VJ gigs, and having grown up in the 00’s. The performance is a criticism of hetero- and mono-normativity, along with capitalistic perfectionism. Queerdos Häkkinen and Sirkka build a shared moment of fun, weirdness, horror, play, love and tears – simultaneously satirizing the coolness associated with club culture. They poured everything into this artwork: all the frustration, joy, sex, humor, broken hearts and other nasty shit from their souls. ;)

In the performance, the hypersexualization afab (assigned female at birth) bodies are subjected to in everyday life is made visible and reclaimed. The duo takes matters into their own hands with the imagery of popular culture, movies and music. The performance rises from pure enjoyment, even though one of the reasons for the piece is the many incidents when the artist’s work has been criticized for showing boobs on stage. 

The performance is for adults.