Dear Fellow Citizens
COMMISSIONED WORK BY HELSINKI FESTIVAL WEEKS, 2013All the wisdom we have in the world, needs to be shared.
This work was based on several workshops and exercises with senior citizens. How does a senior citizen feel when reading the news about climate change, financial inequality, terrorism, water pollution, over population and the collapse of the welfare state? Age itself doesn't bring wisdom, but it brings some life experience, and some ability to differentiate between the things we should focus on or not, in order to spread the idea of good life not only in our own life, but to other people's lives.
Work was built as a part of participatory performance, series of temporary tattoos and a book about good life.
It was presented on Helsinki Olympic Rowing Station on August 2013.
One of the issues that was most talked about had something to do with freedom: we always have the freedom to choose how we deal with the challenges brought on by life, the freedom to choose how we grow as humans as a result of them, the freedom to go towards our dreams, and the freedom to wonder, to learn, to be inspired, and to face the world together with other people.
The book is only available in Finnish.
