A few weeks back, we took part in arranging the unveiling of 'the Broken Lantern', a 8 meter tall stainless steel sculpture in the heart of Tornio city. The artists, Teija and Pekka Isorättyä have been hanging around at the camp every now and then and great times were had (evidence further down on older blog entries).
The town of Tornio paid for the costs of the sculpture that celebrates the towns village idiots and HC punk scene. For some reason or other, the town was not interested in creating any kind of unveiling event or artist reception so all us bright minds at Camp Hastur got together and planned and executed an opening ceremony and the reception.
Pia and Merja created the concept that included an opera singer, fire art, lights and performance activity. Teija and Pekka asked one of our friends, Miku (of the assembly 2013 rainbow rug booth hangout support fame) to have the opening speech. Usually someone from the town council has a very boring speech in such occasions but this time around is was our friend who got a bit of limelight. We'll he's in the town council too so it was all legit. =)
As we came back after slush, I got the news that the reception budget had been axed in the council. WTF! If a pro cross-country skier of equal magnitude made his return to the old home town, they'd probably send a limo and have a big party. But for artists, no matter how famous, the town didn'd want to spend a penny. Classic. We felt that this was quite outrageous and decided to arrange the reception ourselves. After all, the statue is about independent culture. I had 2 days to arrange the reception without any money, lights, PA..
With a little help from a friend here and there, we got the keys to and old bank building very near the statue, Miku arranged us a projector and a small PA set and Pia bought heaps of bubbly out of her own pocket. Arranging a party for 50-100 people in two day's notice is not easy I tell you. Especially if you want to throw a classy party. But we pulled it off, miraculously.
The opening went well, the party was groovy and the afterparty even groovier maybe =)
Next day me and Janne crawled to the art museum bazaar to meet up with artists who might have interest in doing an art show at camp Hastur. We met a few people and then there was this Mr. Stig who had some really cool graffiti style paintings. He told us we was not interested at all to come to this god-forsaken town but some of his friends basically forced him to pack his paintings and drive to Tornio.
Long story short, we are planning an art show with Stig PLUS he's doing some kick-o-ass-o graphics for Hoodownr! I'm posting a few samples of his stuff here, take a look. If you need a airplane hangar painted in vivid colors or something like that, contact stig, he's da man for da job!
This week it's still grinding away with hoodo pre beta. So much to do. More blogging later.
Ah btw we got the hoodownr specific website up at hoodownr.com , take a look!
Appreciate your local artist people!
Sami
Hastur
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