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20170125

Don’t hope – Make #ॐ

“Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be live-streamed continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency.”: http://hewillnotdivide.us

Finnish food culture is post-human as we mainly consume processed substance to maintain work efficiency. Food is a means to an end. This is usefull in our preparations for the post-apocalyptic future as processed food are more sustainable then handcrafted cuisines! When food is produced in large batches it’s difficult control it’s taste but it is way more energy efficient to produce. Force-feeding industrially produced canned shit like maksalaatikko for kids in schools and workers in public institutions for the past 70 years has changed us into post-cousine beasts. The dystopian view of human survivors eating dog food in nuclear fallout shelters is our reality. We’ve been eating military rations since 50ties.

The meat products we’ve grown accustomed to contain very little meat and will be easily replaced with proteins from plants or insects. Popular frozen-pizza brands have already replaced cheese into compressed wheat products. No one can tell the difference. Finn’s are well suited for life on a space-stations, orbiting earth while we wait for the dust to settle. Advanced cuisine-cultures will have a harder time adapting to upcoming droughts and other struggles which will make fresh foods into a rarity. An enjoyable taste in food is a luxury we cannot afford.

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20170124

Autochthonic Fantasy (2016) Arttu Merimaa.

Kirjastoessee (2016) Pilvi Porkola.

Preparing for “Performance and Media” course which I’ll host next month in Kankaanpää Art School. Feeling stressed.. It’s taking a lot of time to sort out practicalities and the time would be better spend making fun art stuff (like preparing the SOW: Blacksmith ed.1).

I’ve planned that we’ll… Make six intensive workouts at the Kankaanpää gym (working with kettlebells), make 3d renderings of meditation stools (later construct them) and work with sketchup to design imaginary objects (later meditating on them). It’s a fun program to conjure but stressful to organize. At the same time I’m mentoring a group of five graduating students with their thesis related artworks. So far I’ve written 12 pages of emails and spend 63 hours on mentoring tasks and travels to Kpää (I’m using a nifty work scheduling application to measure the exact working time). I don’t think they are reading my emails and on my visit there last week I learned that half of the group hasn’t started working yet.

It takes six hours to travel to Kankaanpää by bus. It would be more practical to organize my course for an academy in Berlin etc. The travel time would be more reasonable. Still.. I enjoy the idea that somewhere there is a polytechnic university which offers free art education for people who live in the middle of nowhere. Globally it doesn’t make any sense to have an art university in Helsinki either. I should make a travel video about Kpää and show it friends visiting Helsinki. The site puts contemporary art into perspective. On a map the city is at the same level as Greenland.. It’s among the most northern universities of applied sciences offering education on performance art. I guess Tromsø is the most northern – But Norway doesn’t count because they have oil money, which makes space and time are manageable.