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Harri Piispanen: It’s a Job
It’s a Job is a performance where Harri Piispanen spends a working day inside a self-made coffin. During the performance people are invited to spend time next to the coffin and talk with the artist if they want to.
A Finnish working day is often from 8 hours excluding a 30 minute lunch brake. It’s a Job has been performed with several variations, including an entire working week of 40 hours, a morning shift, a day shift and for the duration of gallery opening hours.
It’s a Job is literally a job. It is an attempt to learn Ars Moriendi, “the Art of Dying”. I assume we would be able to live a more fulfilling life if we could be more at ease with our mortality instead of distancing ourselves from it.
It’s a Job is obviously an overly exaggerated example of this, but at the same time a practical step: the coffin i hand crafted out of pine is made to match regulations concerning burials and it is to be used in my funeral when the time comes.
A Finnish working day is often from 8 hours excluding a 30 minute lunch brake. It’s a Job has been performed with several variations, including an entire working week of 40 hours, a morning shift, a day shift and for the duration of gallery opening hours.
It’s a Job is literally a job. It is an attempt to learn Ars Moriendi, “the Art of Dying”. I assume we would be able to live a more fulfilling life if we could be more at ease with our mortality instead of distancing ourselves from it.
It’s a Job is obviously an overly exaggerated example of this, but at the same time a practical step: the coffin i hand crafted out of pine is made to match regulations concerning burials and it is to be used in my funeral when the time comes.
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