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Museum of Cultures | EXHIBITION ARCHIVE
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MOVABLE HOME
2.3.2011 - 7.8.2011
The exhibition MOVABLE HOME presents mobile homes related to a variety of cultures and phenomena: Mongolian and Kyrgyz yurts, a Saudi Arabian Bedouin tent, a Finnish holiday tent and a reconstruction of a conical tent. The exhibition also includes a photo section by photographer Kukka Ranta on the lives and homes of Roma beggars in Helsinki.
Housing and livelihood are and have throughout history been interlinked among the world's cultures. Both MOVABLE HOME and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE DARK, the children's exhibition themed on energy that opened in 2010, comment on these issues.
Nomadic peoples still have mobile homes around the world although their nomadic lifestyles everywhere are being − or have already been − abandoned due to social, economic and ecological changes. Traditional nomad homes have also gained new uses in the modern-day context and environment when they have been transformed into spare or utility shelters near fixed dwellings or have become festive or holiday premises where occasional travellers, too, can enjoy extreme experiences based on the ways of life of other cultures and lifestyles.
Therefore today's mobile home is often a very different setting for housing, a temporary dwelling related to refugeeship, migration or poverty. The photographs of Roma people displayed in the exhibition tell such a story: European integration has resulted in Finland joining the nations seeing the arrival of people who beg to earn a living and who live in shacks made of scrap materials or in cars or caravans. People in Finland have also witnessed debate in the media on their housing conditions and lives. There is also an increasing number of references in the media to climate refugeeship as a growing phenomenon that has become permanent, not to mention other causes of migration or refugeeship.
MOVABLE HOME also refers to the opportunity of choice available to some: the holiday tent seen in the exhibition represents the other extreme of the mobile home in which wealthy people are able to spend their paid holidays camping, caravanning or boating.
Producers
The exhibition script is by Pilvi Vainonen of the Museum of Cultures. The photo exhibition captions are by photographer Kukka Ranta. Exhibition architecture design is by Jenni Reuter, lighting and sound design by Kimmo Karjunen, yurt model lighting design by Hessu Turunen and educational material by Sara Åström.
Further information
Pilvi Vainonen
tel. +358 40 128 6432
pilvi.vainonen(at)nba.fi
Kukka Ranta
tel. +358 40 828 2026
kukka.ranta(at)helsinki.fi
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