We have hospitality
COMMISSIONED WORK BY MÄNTTÄ ART WEEK, 2014Niskala’s art often reflects the question of what one would do, if s/he had only 100 hours left with the world.
At the piece We Have Hospitality various kind of people learnt to understand the world and humanity by spending time with people who have different values from them, with people unknown.
In the piece five foreign community members were invited as guests to Mänttä. The visits started at noon and lasted until the following morning.
The guests got to sleep in a children's play house, a boat or a terrace. There were no ordinary alarm clocks; instead the notes of an accordionist playing outside the window were heard in the morning.
Starting point for this piece was counterbalance for fear – more we are afraid, the more we hold back. The world being in the state it is at the moment it feels even more important for us to be able to depend on each other, lean on one another, and not to seclude the rest of the world from around us.
Everything that happened during the visits was based on suggestions and offers of hospitality. In some ways gifts and proposals: This is what I can give from my life to others.
