Death of a House

I held a performance entitled “Death of a house” at the Artists’ Association Muu’s Booked - artists’ Book Fair in the Cable Factory in Helsinki. The performance was based on my trips to a courtyard of an abandoned house in Häme. The house seems to have been torn away from time, left empty already decades ago. I measured the yard with my steps, peered inside through the remnants of curtains, pondered about the life of the house and the rusted tools in the shed. I found an old sauna which was already growing spruce saplings. Once man-made, it had started becoming part of nature again, slowly. I constructed the house with words in my performance. Houses are images of people and their dreams. I reflected on time, decay and death. The performance included a cardboard model of the house which I had made and covered in 1930’s newspapers.