Shelter - Public Privacy_Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland

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Shelter - Public Privacy_Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland

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2001

A group of students were asked to build a personal shelter in the Kallio district of Helsinki. The shelters needed to be located on a public place and the art/architecture should comment on the surroundings. The students were required to sleep in their shelters. * One student welded a steel-made ball which she was rolling around the streets during the days like a scarabee and then locked herself in during the night. * One student made a plywood copy of an electric box that you can see everywhere on the streets and lived in there. There was some old posters plastered in his box and some graffiti - nobody paid any attention to his house. He even had a mini-bar. * One student was recycling old ropes from different theatres of Helsinki and made a hanging structure - a kind of a cocoon.* One student was dressed in a burha and kept staring at local trains from a hill-top. No public panic though.* One student built a table like her parents had had in the 70's with Marimekko tablecloth and lived under it as she had done as a child.* A Japanese student built her shelter inta a frame of an abandoned swing. Actually 3 Japanese students were living in it very neetly - shoes outside. * One student was dressed as an anglel and lived inside a garbage bin. She had installed some divine lighting system inside and occasionally would appear with all her grace. The garbage bin was movable so every now and then you could see the angel rolling squatting into another location - Heaven on Earth. * Two Czech girls locked themselved into a wooden cage like shark observers on a small square where people are pushing drugs. It was a bit cold and strange so the shark-people were offering them coffee.* Some student made a lantern-like structure into an apartment building courtyard attracting people to come out and drink tea - same strategy as if you would hunt for night insects.* One Polish girl was squatting on a parking lot of an apartment buildign and got kicked out: "You Bum!"* One student explained that since he comes from the countryside the only time he feels safe or sheltered in the city is when he moves. So he was moving all the time and documented his movement with pieces of clay on which he stepped. He said the work is a "missing ling between the fine-arts and dog shit". * One student was hanging umbrellas upside down in a tree. I don't really know why. Art. Casagrande & Rintala for Helsinki University of Art and Design Department of Environmental Art. Commissioned by Professor Markku Hakuri.

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Shelter - Public Privacy_Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland

Shelter - Public Privacy_Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland

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