In WHITEOUT, you encounter those gnawing feelings—a sense of unease. You are exposed to a strange white light and a state known as "whiteout." This condition is described as a situation where visibility is severely reduced: when your surroundings are filled with snow, and familiar reference points disappear.

Can our collective blindness to the climate crisis be described as a "whiteout"?
Three dancers create traces, get stuck, and tease their way out. Together, audience and dancers reach a shared, strenuous state where ambiguous visions appear. Do you actually see something that isn’t really there—hallucinations or mirages—or are you so saturated by observation that you slip into another state? What is it like to face uncertainty together, and what does this experience create?

WHITEOUT is the second performance in a trilogy that explores different aspects of affect, and each is an extension of Hytten’s master’s thesis in human geography from 2022. In this part, the potential of gnawing or sticky affect is illuminated, embracing what we do not know and what we cannot know. Through aesthetic reflection, we can create a process-oriented preparedness for how climate change can be understood in new ways.