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Museum of Cultures | EXHIBITION ARCHIVE
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HOW ARE YOU?
Kaisu Paavilainen and Anne Siirtola
15.4.-28.9.2008
"How are you? is a growing social arts project, on which we have been working on since 2004. We have collected the material for the installations from workshops in Finland and Russia. People who have participated in the workshops have been from different age groups from Voknavolok, Dvina Karelia and a number of localities in Finland. Together with the participants we have contemplated on what is most important in life. The installations on view now are related to our childhood and remembering.
The piece called Time Machine takes us back to our own childhood in Eastern Finland in the 1970s, to the places we visited there and to granny's lap: back then we had time to watch and observe free from all haste and worry.
The rest of the material for the installations was gathered from workshops held for schoolchildren between 2004 and 2007. The showpieces parallel the life of a child on the one hand in Voknavolok and in Finland on the other. How is childhood different in a small village in Dvina Karelia when compared with one in modern day Finland? How do different surroundings and pace of life appear in children's hopes and around the dinner table?
In the installation called Tuulipaikka, children have written on the towels the names of the people that are dearest to them in life. On the audiotape Maikki from Voknavolok tells us about Karelian customs that are related to death and burial. The video projection is from the cemetery where the towels are still swaying in the wind as a sign that someone still remembers and cares.
We would like to thank the children who took part in the workshops from Voknavolok, Dvina Karelia, Hyvinkää, Mäntsälä and Kajaani."
Kaisu Paavilainen and Anne Siirtola
HOW ARE YOU?- exhibitions has been on view in the art museums of Hyvinkää and Rauma, Mänttä Art Festival in 2006 and in the South Karelia Art Museum and the art museums of Kajaani and Kerava in 2007. The installations continue to grow and evolve.
Further information www.kuinelat.com
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