Hunajanjyvä: Lightning and Earth

A performance night by Hunajanjyvä at Mad House, Helsinki in October 2023, Hunajanjyvä: Lightning and Earth tells a story of arts and cultural workers resettling onto planet Mars.

Building a new cultural space is puzzling. However, the trail cameras reveal new insights hidden within the crisis. 

Performers:

Carpet beating, smacking and the Martian desert sand is blowing around. Celebration, a musician would play...

You can lie down and make a bed on the carpet rack.

But a sculptor needs a studio. The bed linen is moved on the floor. The artist is mistreated.

The rack would be lifted up and supporting poles would be slid underneath (oil the poles for easier rotation), creating a building or hut.

A flag to the top of the pole. Perhaps this would bring additional value to the performance.

The principles could be: "can the earth hear? The earth hears."

There's an awful lot of noise outside this dome. Everybody is in disagreement.

When we make a statement, people laugh at it. When we build, they study it with armed forces.

Why are they threatened by our point of view? We're just reserving it a cultural space before it's reallocated again.

The team requires an architect, and someone who has read space law.

I wonder if playing the washing machine has been invented yet?

Shouting into the outlet pipe is a good way to make it sound like someone is actually inside the washing machine and you can extend the pipe to go all the way to the back stage.

Text by Antti Tuomento & Hunajanjyvä