Davina and Daniel
maanantai 31. elokuuta 2009
Saturday 29 August (2)
6am Walk On Last Day
I gaze at the islands - soft as marshmallows now - on the horizon
I pick up a leaf
I slip on rocks
Spires point heavenwards
Friday 28 August (2)
Floral Pugnaculum
A work by Davina and Daniel - a wall of flowers planted around the fortress island
Friday 28 August (3)
Davina and Daniel Ferry Greetings (a provisional title) and a work in progress
DAY 18 - THURSDAY 27 AUGUST - the final greeting
Greeting the 14.20 ferry from Helsinki to the Island
Friday 28 August (4)
I have been told that our studio is haunted by a four foot tall woman dressed in white - this would suggest she is a child - who apparently walks up the stairs. I spoke to an artist who had previously worked in the studio, and they heard lots of banging and scratching noises. I never saw the ghost but it got me thinking ...
What does a ghost do, what EXACTLY is its daily business, does this include consciously scaring us ?
Would ghosts be surprised to know that they scare us ?
Are ghosts visible the whole time, or only when we are present to see it ?
Are ghosts visible the whole time, but only to
certain people ?
Is it possible to scare a ghost ? - if this so then perhaps I should consider wearing no clothes in the studio, this would surely scare the ghost away
How would we ever know the answers to such questions ?
Friday 28 August (8)
Davina and Daniel Ferry Greetings (a provisional title) and a work in progress
DAY 17 - WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST
Greeting the 14.00 ferry from Helsinki to the Island
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Friday 28 August (9)
Sininen Uni - A Finnish Lullaby
Every evening when lights goes out
and real night arrives
So Sandman rouses
and quietly knocks on the door
It has sleepy slippers
and with those it minces,
It sneaks other side of the door
and jumps behind the closet
And it has sleepy cap
and blue sleepy belt
and sleepy piece of ice cream
it eats with little teeth
and it has blue car
and that car hums like this:
Surrur, surrur and it dashes
towards to the dream's blue land
And little umbrella
is all tilted
and blue dream's book
it carries on it's lap
and to dreams blueland
it carries children with it's car
Surrur, surrur and there
is blue, sleepy road.
And there is golden forest
and at the forest is golden tree
and dream's blue bird
and on a bird golden mouth
and that dream's blue bird
it lulls to children.
It sings sleepy song
and real night arrives
So Sandman rouses
and quietly knocks on the door
It has sleepy slippers
and with those it minces,
It sneaks other side of the door
and jumps behind the closet
And it has sleepy cap
and blue sleepy belt
and sleepy piece of ice cream
it eats with little teeth
and it has blue car
and that car hums like this:
Surrur, surrur and it dashes
towards to the dream's blue land
And little umbrella
is all tilted
and blue dream's book
it carries on it's lap
and to dreams blueland
it carries children with it's car
Surrur, surrur and there
is blue, sleepy road.
And there is golden forest
and at the forest is golden tree
and dream's blue bird
and on a bird golden mouth
and that dream's blue bird
it lulls to children.
It sings sleepy song
Friday 28 August (10)
Yesterday the Suomenlinna Treasure Hunt - a project devised by Anna Colin (curator-in-residence of HIAP/FRAME) and Veronika Spierenburg (HIAP artist-in-residence) - took place. The Treasure Hunt was a curatorial project involving the participation of artists from Helsinki and Suomenlinna, and took the form of a one-off guided tour around eight art works placed or performed on various sites in Suomenlinna. Each stop on the tour revealed an artwork – ranging from film and performance, to participatory projects – in corners and buildings of the island normally hidden from public view. The works responded in various ways to the local historical, socio-political or geographic context, and provided an insight into the civic life of Suomenlinna as perceived by the island’s short-term artist-in-residence inhabitants.
Artists: Noah Angell, Davina and Daniel, Ben Fain, Eric Hynymen, Pekcka and Lea Kantonen, Jaako Karhunen, Patrick mcGoohan (in The Prisoner), Carrie Schneider, and Veronika Spierenburg..
The tour was followed by refreshments at Restaurant Yläkerho.
One of the inmates from the Open Prison, who Davina and Daniel had been working with, was unable to participate in the Treasure Hunt, and so had written a postcard to us. During the Tour, I read the card out aloud, his fellow inmates all joined in shouting out the phrase -
WE ARE THE WINNERS !
Boxer Tov, Davina and Daniel - Me and Davina met yesterday at the harbour when I came back to the island. I told Davina that I cannot come tomorrow, and I'm really sorry for that. I have to go to the dentists at 3 o'clock. but I am with you in my mind, and also because I'm so happy because I got to make work with our art team !
We are the Winners !
Well, have a nice day !!
At the final destination on the tour, the treasure box was dug up by the youngest member of the tour. At the Restaurant Yläkerho, the treasure box was opened to reveal the three different tourist postcards made by the group from the Open Prison.
Friday 28 August (12)
Suomenlinna Treasure Hunt
This boat was being moved when we stopped to hear about the history of the submarine held in dry dock on the island
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Thursday 27 August
Davina and Daniel Ferry Greetings (a provisional title) and a work in progress
DAY 16 - TUESDAY 25 AUGUST
Greeting the 19.00 ferry from Helsinki to the Island
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Tuesday 25 August
Preparations For LightHouse -
a performance taking place at midnight, and photos of performance
Tuesday 25 August (4)
Break Up by Davina and Daniel
Night of the Arts Festival, Helesinki, 21 August 2009
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Tuesday 25 August (5)
Davina and Daniel made this board
to celebrate the work of those who maintain the island - many of whom are from the Open Prison - we asked the inmates we were working with, to place the board in specific places where they had worked
Tuesday 25 August (6)
Davina and Daniel spent the day working with the group from the Open Prison in preparation for their participation in the Suomenlinna Treasure Hunt happening on Thursday - the inmates made signs, which they placed around the island at locations where they had worked
This man works in the prison run wood yard, he is standing on blocks of wood he has swawn
He liked the names and messages (some dating back to the 1800's) scratched into the rocks facing a vast expanse of sea, from Russian, Swedish and Finish soldiers - his message was
I Also Feel Lonely When Reading These
as the messages who would have been written by those missing their countries and their loved ones
This slogan was used as part of a performance in which this man approached a flock of Geese
A Live Sculpture
A Place To Spend Time
made by someone who also worked in the wood yard, where we managed to play a game of pool
The Free Spirit Puppet
Tuesday 25 August (8)
Davina and Daniel Ferry Greetings (a provisional title) and a work in progress
DAY 15 - MONDAY 24 AUGUST
Greeting the 20.20 ferry from Helsinki to the Island
Tuesday 25 August (9)
Davina and Daniel Ferry Greetings (a provisional title) and a work in progress
DAY 14 - SUNDAY 23 AUGUST
Greeting the 19.00 ferry from Helsinki to the Island
sunnuntai 23. elokuuta 2009
Monday 24 August (3)
The island is covered with bright button headed Tansy - I think you can use the herb as a cure for headaches - boil, and drink the liquid or use as a poultice ?
Sunday 23 August (3)
Davina and Daniel Ferry Greetings (a provisional title) and a work in progress
DAY 13 - SATURDAY 22 AUGUST
Greeting the 12.20 ferry from Helsinki to the Island
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