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Miten raukkamaisesti onnen anti täällä jaetaan, 7/2018

An audience member is fixing a cast leg with packing tape and another audience member is filling another cast with sand while Maire is watching further back.

A performance where I disrupted a delicate balance.

Maire is drilling a hole to a low-hanging cast leg.

I had set up a huge mobile made of freshly cut young tree trunks, casts made from the legs of asylum seekers and sand. The casts were filled with the sand and it was all hanging from the roof of the gallery. There was also a pile of sand and some spoons on the floor next to the mobile.

A mobile made of young tree trunks and casts of legs from people of all ages.

I explained that I was going to start drilling the casts in silence and that the audience could do what they wanted.

Maire is drilling a hole to a high-hanging cast leg

Duration: 30 minutes

A small boy is filling a cast leg with sand

The performance was a part of “Mitä itää?”-exhibition where the works were made together by Finnish professional artists and asylum seekers. Poriginal-Gallery, Pori, Finland.
Curated by: Katriina Sjöblom
Photos: Joona Ali

White cast legs repaired with brown packing tape hanging on the mobile