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11.9.-4.10.2009
JARNO HARAKKAMÄKI
Making Something Out of Nothing

We have a hatch on the ceiling at home near the front door. I once went through the hatch and discovered that our flat has an entire extra storey we hadn't known about. The new upstairs space was familiar to me, as if I had been there before. Unfortunately I don't remember very much about my previous visit. Now we have an extra room there, with a large sheepskin rug on the floor. There's a filthy washbasin in the corner and - hey! - stairs for getting back downstairs. I had forgotten the stairs from my reality. What made me notice the stairs and the upper storey? And how come I only realised it now?

I'm wondering:
- How and where are reality and existence constructed?
- Can other people and their ideas be influenced by presenting realities to them?
- Can ideas of reality be extended or changed?
- If so, what is the right direction and means?
- What is this 'right' way? Who can point it out? How can it be invoked?
- Why should it be done? What if it's harmful?
- What happens to incorrect and bad realities? Can they be changed?

I answer: How should I know?!

Jarno Juhani Harakkamäki (b.1976) lives in Kerava and works and teaches in Helsinki. He graduated from the Arts Academy of the Turku Polytechnic (Drawing School of Turku) in 2007, and earned a BA in theatre and stage lighting and sound design at the TAMK University of Applied Sciences in 2002. Harakkamäki in interested in history, silence, culture and sounds. He likes red and black, coffee, cinnamon, pranks, details, words and small things.



Jarno Harakkamäki, Meeting the Phantom Dog, 2009

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