Greetings From Finland

maanantai 31. elokuuta 2009

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

torstai 27. elokuuta 2009

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

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.