Hunajanjyvä: Salama & Maa

21 August.

Hunajanjyvä, born in the village of Kauttua, is organising a performance night at Mad House Helsinki.

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:
nenúhîr
Horse
Daniele Willis
Tari Doris
Jean-Michel Kampara
Kadi Vija
Alisa Alho

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.

<span>Text by Antti Tuomento & Hunajanjyvä</span><br>

Honeycomb is a visual artist Rains in Hirsimäen and sound artist Eero Pulkkinen a curatorial entity, platform and art event. It has been organised twice, in 2021 and 2022, in the village of Kauttua in Eura. On both occasions, the programme included an art exhibition, performances, film screenings and concerts, inviting works from over 50 artists.

Artist-led collaboration is central to Hunajanjyvä and the working groups for the events have included both local and international artists. Sharing, contact between artists, and encounters with different actors are part of Hunajanjyvä's activities, which constantly strives to contribute to easing or even breaking down tensions and building trust.

Working group:

Script and direction: Sadet Hirsimäki, Eero Pulkkinen

Scriptwriting assistance: Antti Tuomento

The actor: Alisa Alho

The singer: Kadi Vija

Guitarist: Jean-Michel Kampara

Lighting design: Eero Erkamo

Stenography: honeycomb, Antti Tuomento, Eero Erkamo

Illustrations: Satu Pihlajamaa

Manufacture of stencils: Venla Elonsalo

Translations, translations: Amanda Ripatti

Text annotation and editing, handwritten programme: Eeva-Maija Pulkkinen