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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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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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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…