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A WALK ON THE EDGE @ WALK & TALK, AZORES, PORTUGAL, 23 JULY, 2022
A walk on the edge is a performative experience and a collective journey in Fenais da Luz, a village on the North coast of São Miguel Island. See the documentation video The pathway connects Azores’ history, a local tragedy from the 1980s, and the audience members’ personal relationship to owning. Starting from the overwhelming idea…
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PLAYING ADULTS
Trouble Festival, Brussels, 2021 The performance turned the playground into an absurd stage of adulthood, and created an awkward tension and dialogue between generations. Four adult actors presented children ́s views about adulthood, with the audience following them and occasionally participating in the acts. As they slid down, they shouted what kind of adults they…
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KESKUSTELUPUISTO / COMMON GROUND PARK – A Public Space Game
A unique artistic experiment of transforming an abandoned plot of land into a public park in the Finnish town of Rauma. In 2019 thirty residents between the ages of 6 and 89 became players in a two-year-long “Public Space Game”. Their mission was to turn their 30 individual visions into one urban park. The playful…
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FOR THIS DANCE I WILL TAKE THE LEAD
Photo: Saara Autere An audience gathers on a floor, ready for a dance. The music of the evening has been picked by people, who are too often led by others in life. Tonight, during the song of their choice, they will lead the audience. Concept: Tellervo Kalleinen / Production: Mad House Helsinki (2019)
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9 CARTUCHOS – PAPERBAG STORIES FROM CUBA
Installation @ Havana Biennale, Cuba, 2019 Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen commissioned nine local writers and thinkers to write a speech about Cuba – using a paper bag as a reference point. An edition of 9 paper bags with excerpts of each of the speeches were printed on 100.000 bags. The bags are distributed over the period…
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TUNNELUONTO -WALK
Walk tour by Maija Hirvanen and Tellervo Kalleinen Duration ca 1,45h In Finnish language Tunne luonto means both “knowing” about nature and “feeling” the nature. On their Tunneluonto -walk Maija Hirvanen and Tellervo Kalleinen invite the co-walkers to reflect the relationship between knowledge and feeling when experiencing nature. Different ways of determining nature are discussed as well. The…
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TEMPORARY PAVILION FOR PERMANENT NEGOTIATIONS
A storyteller Chantal van Doesburgh told conflict stories on a sand box. The stories were contributed by locals. In an arena made of sand she made the problems visible and palpable with the help of props. The project was part of Cure Park, organised by TAAK, an intervention in the tranquile setting of one of the largest public…
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TRACKING DAR ES SALAAM
An interactive video installation The work shows parallel realities of Dar es Salaam through one weekday of 11 local inhabitants. The spectator have to make choices which of the video clips to watch, recorded in different parts of the city during that day, and which of the people to follow and listen. The soundtrack consists of recorded interviews with the participants as well as…
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THE LONG GOODBYE
JOKAklubi´s video is based on the instrumental piece The Long Goodbye by Karl Jonas Winqvist & Blood Music
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101 FOR ALL
The exhibition, which premiered at Kunsthalle Helsinki in October 2015, looks beyond the opinions and statistics of a cross-section of the Finnish population as 100 individuals address sensitive topics in the intimacy of their own homes. The interviewees try to pinpoint experiences and influences that play a role on how their opinions are shaped.
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The Library of Influential Books
100 people who form a statistical cross section of the Finnish population were asked to name one book which have strongly influenced their thinking. The books – together with the texts describing how they influenced the people – form The Library of Influential Books.
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JOKAklubi
JOKAklubi is a group of Finnish visual artist and performers Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raito and Tellervo Kalleinen.
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Investment Zone
Ten players in two countries had an empty piece of land as their game board, and 25/ 50 eur every two weeks as their game money to invest to the land. Investment Zone is a reality game, experiment and participatory art work, which took place April – October 2014 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and Bangalore, India.…
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Family Comes Home
An event which takes place at private homes. The evening dives into the stories of our ancestors – as we remember them – through game, coffee and living room highlights. Family Memory Game blend family stories and memories of the audience – and connects the destinies of the individuals of our family histories.
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Play This at My Funeral
In the video different individuals are posing with the instrument they wish to be played at their funeral.
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What I Wish I Had Learned In School
A Performative lesson series. The artists Maija Hirvanen, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen invited people to contribute a 45 minute lesson about what they wished they had learned in school.
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I Love My Job
I Love My Job dramatizes conflicts experienced by employees of eight different work places. The episodes end with dark fantasies, that have grown in minds of the participants as a result of the unresolved conflicts.
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People in White
A film, which looks into the dynamic between caregiver and care receiver from the subjective viewpoint of people with mental illnesses.
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The First Summit of Micronations, Helsinki 2003
In 2003 The First Summit of Micronations was organised in Helsinki in the historical setting of Finlandia House. During the three day event the representatives of the micronations had a closed round table discussion, a gala evening and temporary embassies.
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In The Middle Of A Movie
Tellervo Kalleinen traveled around the world placing ads: “Plan a film scene in your home and give a Finnish woman a role in it”. She went to every home where she was invited and acted the roles she was given.