{"id":6391,"date":"2018-05-07T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=6391"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:52:23","slug":"neighborizome-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/portfolio\/neighborizome-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighborizome (2017-18)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I worked with artists Heini Aho<\/strong> and Leena Kela<\/strong> as the renovation period residency artists for the Kone foundation Lauttasaari manor<\/a>. Our group is called Neighborizome and at Lauttasaari we explored the rhizomatic and multi-species features of contemporary living habitats. The residency lasted for a year and highlighted as artworks which we presented at the manors grand opening event. A backbone of the residency was a series of informal meetings with inhabitants of the district. Some of the meetings inspired us to organize talk-shops, in which local experts from various fields shared their expertise. During the Discussion on Decay<\/em> -event we contemplated the relationship public art has with human memory. The Tranquillity as Mushrooms know it<\/em> -event introduced audiences to how different fungus behave and what community mediation is (we also tasted kombucha prepared by various artist) and Dreams and other shared Spaces<\/em> introduced participants to social dreaming.<\/p>\n

At the end of the residency we prepared individual artworks, which were inspired by the residency. I organized Where to?<\/em> city-walks. The walk started with a presentation detailing the historical development of Finnish housing hold companies, focusing on collectively owned production facilities and meeting spaces (such as laundry rooms). After the presentation we took a stroll around the district and guided our movements and actions by voting. The walk aimed to facilitate radical forms of cohabitation and to illustrate how build environments inform our behavior. Trough the work, I attempted to discover new usage for the collectively owned spaces in basements around Helsinki. At the end of the walk I handed out pamphlets which offer some background to the performance. The pamphlet is illustrated with drawings featuring constriction workers, who worked at the Lauttasaari manor site. The workers present their favorite stretching exercises. The Dark Infra<\/em> (2018) -pamphlet is available for download <\/a>and the illustrations have been shared using a license which allow people to use them freely.<\/p>\n

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