Porchetta Helsinki, Mikonkatu Together with Karin Andersen (Bologna). The performance was made in two parts, one in Helsinki and one in Bologna. In Helsinki a big portico structure was built in the middle of the pedestrian part of Mikonkatu in the centre of the city. The portico structure comments on the famous covered pavements of Bologna. The inspiration for the performance was an old, now forbidden, festivity when the Nobles and the clergy were sitting on the roofs of the palaces in Bologna, throwing fried pigs on the poor people standing below. Wine was also poured through sculpted stone heads on the people. The artists wanted to turn the constellation upside down and create a situation when the “poor” artists would sit up on a portico and kindly send down pig shaped cookies, which were made according to a traditional Bolognian recipe. Under the pig cookies was a red napkin, decorated with a golden drawing, made in collaboration between the artists, and information about the original Porchetta festivity. Those who wanted, also got a shower of lemon water, poured through a plastic tube. pictures (5) Bologna Art Academy