Maria Metsalu gives TINA and its London audience a new iteration of Kultuur, an ongoing performance work that animates a dialogue with the sun. Kultuur presents an anthropomorphised wildflower as an object of spectacle, while at the same time illuminating and complexifying some universal paradoxes of existence; the sun as something that gives life and energy, but something that can burn right through it. Metsalu confronts audiences in such a way that also scorns this spectacle, and the performance offers a moment of reflection, for all involved, on participation and complicity – a collective assemblage of exchange, of ritual, of unexpected and unknowable participation. The performance begins in the street, where people witness the artist’s interactions with a ubiquitous element of urban life, the hotdog vendor. With a hypnotic candour, and with intensities varying between states of pleasure, indifference, suffering and hope, audiences are led, pied piper-like, to TINA. Here, the collective body of the audience orbit the sun – an environment collaboratively made by Metsalu and Boumjimar in the gallery space. Kultuur includes the collaboration of various other artists in its conception and production; a text written by Jaakko Pallasvuo, sound design by Artjom Astrov, outfits designed by Kris Lemsalu together with Lotte Jürjendal and CRUDACRUDA, and a range of artefacts designed and built by Nikola Knezevic and Bruno Lillemets. While Karim Boumjimar creates the food ...