JÄRVENPÄÄ 2004



Ainola rocks

The Edible Finns were invited to do a performance on the opening of the Ainola exhibition in Järvenpää Art Museum. The exhibition shows how the Finnish national composer Sibelius has been pictured in the Fine Arts.
A replica of a piano keyboard was made with Finnish white chocolate and black liquorices. A pre-made tape was made with samples from an interview with Sibelius from 1947, where he talks about how “the silence speaks at Ainola”. Ainola is Sibelius house in the countryside outside Helsinki. This sentence was looped together with samples from some of Sibelius’ other pieces and hip hop and techno loops.

In the middle of the six minutes long piece a pre-recorded version of the Finlandia tune played amateurishly with one finger on piano was mimed by the edible Finns, dressed in suits, rocking in front of the keyboard. The performance ended when the Edible Finns brought out the pieces of the keyboard for the audience to eat, accompanied only by the voice of Sibelius telling how the silence speaks in Ainola.

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