SaunaScape

The Bathers VideoEstonian performance art collective Art Container has brought their interactive exhibition “The Bathers” to the 2010 Brisbane Festival.

The center of the exhibition is a transparent sauna serves as a stage as five performers practice traditional Estonian sauna customs in front of the audience. The borderline between the audience and actors is completely blurred as the audience is invited to join the performers’ rituals in The Bathers. Participants must be over 18.

The Bathers has been previously been installed in Tallinn, Estonia, Riga Latvia, and Miami, Florida in the United States.  A video on the Art Container website shows the assembly of the sauna and some of its prior installations.

The sauna stove appears to be wood-fired and use river stones to hold the heat. As is the custom in Estonian saunas, the sauna-goers enjoy it in the nude.

The Bathers VideoEstonian performance art collective Art Container has brought their interactive exhibition “The Bathers” to the 2010 Brisbane Festival. The center of the exhibition is a transparent sauna serves...

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