Anastasia Eliseeva

My Room in the Forest:

In the Soviet Union it was popular to put the so called „photo wall paper” in your living room: a huge wall paper picture depicting a forest. People wanted to make their living room limitless, bring a romantic picture of nature to their home. I make it the other way round and transplant the image of a living room to the real forest. Maybe I want to bring the cosiness and feeling of security of your home to the inhospitable nature. At the same time it’s a non-room, as the definition of a room is that it is a space limited by (four) walls. My room in the forest is permeable and just a hint.
Materials: Wallpaper, glue (flour paste), wall base (made of silicon)                                                                                                                       

Suvi Haapala

Plastic Dreams:

We live surrounded by plastic. Finns use about 86 kg of plastic annually most of which arise from packaging materials. Plastic products are disguised with plastic. Thrown into the nature or into the sea plastic is not biodegradable. Easy and cheap dreams become a nightmare. Plastic replaces traditional raw materials but can plastic replace everything? This patchwork blanket filled with wind is not warm.
Materials: Plastic bags, rope                                                                                                                       

Ismo Heinonen

The Dish Mountain:

To meet a dish mountain is a great change to self-examination.
Materials: Recycling materials                                                                                                                       

Sofia Hultin

The Most Beautiful Feathers:

A few years ago in Stockholm there was a woman who had eleven swans in her two bedroom apartment. According to the media she thought that she had rescued them. She was caught when the neighbours started to complain about the smell. The animals were taken care of by the local game warden.
Materials: A microphone and an amplifier                                                                                                                                                                

Anna-Lea Kopperi

Rower - The Last Voyage:

A happening, which emphasizes the character and the site of the seashore of Lauttasaari: the waves of the open sea and the twilight of August. In the evenfall the dark black rower starts rowing from the shore of Lauttasaari and throws the lights on the waves of the sea. The lights keep on in the gloomy night a couple of days, as long as a person in emergency will live at the mercy of the sea.
Materials: 100 pcs of survival lights with floats, a wooden rowing boat and a rower                                                                                                                                                                                       

Anu Miettinen

A Cup of Tea:

The installation consists of a romantic square table with two chairs, a table lamp, a teapot, cups and a vase of flowers. All parts are made of chicken wire, and in addition the flowers contain light-emitting diodes inside which put them on glow. Tea is ready.
Materials: Chicken wire, iron wire, mixed materials                                                                                                                                                                                       

Alberto Oviedo

Remote Control:

We rely so much on the advanced technology of today that we also expect it to meet our emotional needs.
Materials: Wood, plywood, paint, glass, glue, nails                                                                                                                                                                                       

Eeva-Liisa Puhakka

The best party is always in the kitchen:

Almost everyone has discovered that the best parties always end up in the kitchen. In the kitchen we often have discussions, which we call kitchen ‘table talks’, but which can also be called everyday debates. Kitchen table talk is a talk that starts from facts ending up with the notion that things are a matter of taste or views.

Although everyday talk is diverse, and each of us is good or bad in it from another person's view or from his/her own view, the fundamental element in everyday talk is that everyone has the same opportunity to be a capable and skilled actor and that everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in the discussion.

Everyday talk takes place face to face. It is straightforward. With everyday talk we try to find out right answers, stick to our own opinions, and rely on authorities. Any random thought we have is usually sufficient to justify our opinion. The goal of the everyday talk will generally make it positive, but at the same time it sets limits to make mistakes and success in debate is bound to the personal success and self-esteem of the talker. In everyday talks issues are often presented as definite facts or absolute views, which may lead to either conflict or a major sense of unity with same-minded persons. In a case of conflict the discussion often loses its original content, and the disagreements are often condemned or another person is made to look ridiculous.
Materials: Table radios, kitchen ceiling lights, mp3-players, motion detectors (censors)                                                                                                                                                                                       

Anu Sallinen

Cuckoo Left the Building:

Cuckoo nests. Furnished birdhouses.
Materials: Glass, wood, bark, metal, paper, plastic, abandoned ja lost objects                                                                                                                                                                                       

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