Our artistic collaborative work merges post-architectural ideas and scenarios which explore the transformations of built spaces and their social reality, and extend into investigations of the human psyche and unresolved phenomena. These multifaceted forms of inquiry combine the means of photography, installation, sound, video, light, archival material and sculptural elements that hover between fiction and documentary. Our latest research has looked into the afterlife and potential narratives of controversial Olympic sites in Beijing, Athens, Sarajevo and Montreal, or defensive architectures built in Switzerland during WWII and their extension into altered bunkers found in everyday homes or municipal shelters across the country. During the residency at Titanik, we would like to develop a sound-oriented work on the speculative forces of fiction in architecture and how this affects common perceptions.
Johanna Härkönen ja Eetu Sihvonen | Matka Cockaigneen | 11.6.–4.7.2021
Johanna Härkönen ja Eetu Sihvonen peijaavat katsojaa remontoidessaan myyttisen tuulentuvan nimeltä Cockaigne, jossa villeimmätkin talonpoikaistoiveet käyvät toteen. Elikkä, käyhän toki matkaan tähän feodaaliseen fantasiamaailmaan, jos uskallat! ____ Johanna Härkönen and Eetu Sihvonen sike the beholders out by a lucid imagination of mythical Cockaigne, a fool's paradise, where peasants' wildest dreams come true. Ergo, taketh the trip to this feudal fantasyland if you dare!