Foraging in the City: Riikka Theresa Innanen

Three experiments:

or in other words Breathing Out

#1 Noticing /in/significant details

Experiment #2

spaces, borders, relations, feelings

Exploring the effects of a fence, our relations to it spatially, physically, mentally and emotionally.

How we move, speak, feel over, under, across it
experience the space/each other /ourselves in this condition

or deal/share/challenge/escape, take distance/find shelter/tackle

Are we beyond the effects of being fenced off, by a barrier in-between, by an open space closed off...

…and then opened?

Step 1 (photo Maria Mastola)

Step 2 (photo Joel Rosenberg)

Experiment #2 Hugging

Hug a person.

Hug a group.

Hug a tree.

Hug plastic.

There's a difference.

… I hope

Experiment #3 "Dancing the world and the wonders of the human creativity while trying to deal with all the shit."

all photos Maria Mastola

A Plastic Bag Dance

with

Plastic Bag Trees

accompanied by JS Bach's Goldberg Variation, Beer and some Passersby

A Performance Juxtaposing..

1) Art history with contemporary/future Art practices though a placement "the Classical Arts" with the "?"

2) existing concepts/ideas and material in my work with the ideas/concepts growing from the location.

Additionally the work was asking the question..

1) how juxtaposed elements can open gaps for new ideas i.e allow possibilities for finding new links between new thoughts and patterns emerging from the experience of watching.

2) how (if) these gaps enable a new kind of interspecies/inter-entity empathy.

3)is this performance a goodbye to the old me or is this already the new me? Is such a thing possible or necessary?

4) how much Beer i.e. bribery/entertainment is required in order to make watching dance (art) enjoyable experience?