Completion year: 2021
Technique: Paper, rya rug, mirror, robe, tree
Size: Installaatio
Keywords: Johanna Sinkkonen, Huoneiden kirja, installaatio, ryijy, silmä
A group of one hundred artists transformed an empty building and its surroundings into a multidisciplinary performance and art installation. The voluminous piece was filled with poetry, theatre, puppetry, dance, music and visual arts. It is an immersive multisensory experience one steps into.
Huoneiden kirja (Book of Rooms) is based on a book of prose poetry by Saila Susiluoto. The abandoned, wind-battered house consisted of 64 rooms – a number that equals to the amount of symbols on a table that serves as a peculiar map for the building. The Book of rooms was an adventure that offered a break from the real world and a plunge into a fictive, yet equally tangible one.