Art meets Finnish
#grainfarming or It takes a village to plant a rye field
Part 4 / MÄMMI/MEMMA
A participartory
#soundperformance
In the spring chapter of our project series
#PRESERVED we designed a sound performance celebrating the traditional dessert "
#mämmi" served at
#Easter. For those who are not Finnish - mämmi is dark-brown pudding made of rye flour and rye malt, served with cream and sugar. The performance was planned as a participartory project where the people of
#Andkil (
#Vörå) were invited to join and contribute.
The central meeting point of the project - the Plaza del Råg, located in the middle of the
#rye field which was planted in August 2024 served as a stage. An active/powered speaker system was used to present an experimental (sound) interpretation of the terms „mämmi“ (fin.) and "
#memma" (swed.), inspired by
#Dadaism or artists and writers like Ernst Jandl and Josef Beuys. The active speaker enabled us to put different layers of sound on top of each other and repeat them in loops to eventually creating a space of sound based on the constant repetition of the declination of the terms „mämmi“ and "memma". Philip (
@(@arteluce23) started the performance by repeating the declinations and then we handed the microphone to the people from the village. We had a blast. After the performance mämmi was served in the newly restored barn of
#Abramsgården.
[Our project deals with the question of the identity-creating significance of rye for Finland - especially in the region of Vörå, resp.
#Ostrobothnia - and how this relationship can be reflected artistically ("Rågens rike" means "Kingdom of Rye" and describes this very region - Finlands
#granary) The project is hosted by Abramsgården in Vörå (Vöyri) in Finland-Sweden.
Fotos: Kim Blåfield
With the support of:
#finnlandinstitut #mikkofritze #finnlines
#Vöråsparbankaktiastiftelse #harryschaumanstiftelse
#grannaslantbruk #perjohangrannas #tommyantill #abbeberglund
#art #conceptualart #finland #performance
