{"id":6041,"date":"2022-12-22T18:36:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toisissatiloissa.net\/?page_id=6041"},"modified":"2023-11-13T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:28:18","slug":"parkkitalo-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toisissatiloissa.net\/en\/parkkitalo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAR PARK<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Photo Simo Valjakka<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Car Park<\/em> is a performance that takes place literally in a space reserved for cars, in an underground parking lot near the centre of the city. A space that is mostly used only for the purpose of exiting it is transformed into a subject of shared exploration. A parking lot is a space for people\u2019s cars, not for the car owners themselves. What happens if the cars are replaced by humans? What if the rush to exit the space could be replaced with easy lingering? What will be revealed, and how does it alter our relationships to other people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Other Spaces group makes performances investigating collective metamorphosis. This time the subject for metamorphosis is a car. Instead of admiring or hating cars as creatures that fill our world, the starting point is to recognize the fact that the modern human is a motorist. Car Park<\/em> aims to draw out that person \u2013 the car person \u2013 on his or her own terms, to tell the wisdom they inherit.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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THE PERFORMANCE CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING PHASES:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driving school:<\/strong> gathering and instructions outside the car park, learning the techniques of being a car person<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking:<\/strong> moving into the car park and transformation into a car person<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting:<\/strong> studying the car park from a car\u2019s point of view<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amusement:<\/strong> variations of being a car person<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Car exhibition:<\/strong> returning to human form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the performance the audience will stand or sit together, according to guidance from the artists. The performance is suitable for all ages and all physical conditions. There will be no exposure to exhaust gas, loud effects or dazzling lights.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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WRITINGS AND REVIEWS<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mirjam Tahkokorpi: Haminan moottoritiell\u00e4 hurjastelee pian ihmisautoja<\/a>, Yle 2.4.2014.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Car park<\/em> was performed also at the Hamina bypass construction zone 18.5.2014, as a version called Motorway is Ours!<\/em> Other Spaces organized the event in cooperation with the city of Hamina and the Finnish Transportation Agency. A length of highway was occupied in a collective running event. At the event the participants also realised a collective rock painting. The painting can still be partly seen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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