8 h

31 kg of paper

a typewriter

furniture

books, notes, chocolate, tea, woollen socks, scarf, flowers

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Performed at New Performance Turku Festival, Turku (FI)

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Concept and performance: Salla Talvikki Nieminen

Mentoring: Marika Räty & Leena Kela

Photos: Jussi Virkkumaa

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Description:

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Free Verse Work is a performance and poetry installation about frustration with the present of work and a desire for a different future. In the performance I spend one full working day at my grandfather’s old typewriter, which he used in his work decades ago, and write poems about work.

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Both real and surreal, the poems map the everyday experience of work in the present and imagine alternatives for the future. Free Verse Work is a utopian dream that smells like paper and sounds a lot like a typewriter.