The pasta performance was a piece where served dinner for my friends and artists Lisa Holmén and Isto Rahkila on the street. I put my table in the middle of the shopping street of Turku. The performance worked kind of as a teaser and a poster photo shoot for my exhibition Easy Living, in which I tried to create my home in a gallery. The exhibition and the pasta performance both were given birth with the question of what common norms we share publicly, and they were both an attempt to exhibit a social norm or something mundane at least. In addition I had dreamed of doing a performance on the street without the legitimization of an institution behind it.
It was a lazy Sunday evening. We picked a spot with no restaurants, so it would not appear as a table at a restaurant terrace. We were close to the doors of a main shopping centre called Hansa. I made a delicious vegan bolognese of my own recipe. When this performance was made in Finland you could only buy wine from Alko, which are these special liqueur shops, and those a closed on Sundays (this performance was before they let the 8 percent wines to the shops!!). So I bought a non-alcoholic wine, which tasted like juice and my friends drank it with mixed feelings.
Santeri Niemi photographed the piece to create a poster for the exhibition Easy Living. This created a less day-to-day atmosphere and more of a photo shootish kind of a performance. People walking buy asked if we were filming a movie. The police drew by slowly and looked at us with intrigue, but did not bother to stop and ask us what we are doing. I wonder if it is a Turku thing, or a white privilege thing, or due to the camera that we were left alone by the police? Might be all.
When we stopped filming is when the performance experienced a metamorphosis. Our photographer Santeri came to eat with us, as did our friend and Jussi Lipasti. Someone passing by wanted to take pictures with us. They said they did not have friends in Finland, so they took a picture with us to send to their family out of seas.<3 We ate, people who came to see the performance ate with us too. There was quite a lot of pasta.
The lovely Santeri Niemi came and took the pictures of the performance and created a poster of it for my exhibition. Also thanks to Jussi Lipasti for helping.
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