A Tale for Tornio

• Main Author: Greenhill, Joanna
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Fine Art; Tornio; inuit
• Online Access: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/1489/

'A Tale for Tornio' was commissioned for a group exhibition. My work related specifically to the theme of the exhibition, which refers to the Inuit word for art as ‘something strange’. I researched Finnish culture and folklore and used a text from the Kalavala. This was recited as I made the objects from the narrated text and enacteAmmMinistry of Education Finlandd the poem as ‘puppet master’ all the while speaking the Finnish text without knowledge of the specific meaning or how to say it. The video was installed with the Kalavala book on a table and the poem was constantly recited and enacted through the duration of the exhibition. This work relates to my ongoing interest in dialogues of making and the use of repetition and return that is a constant factor of my art practice. This work developed the role and manipulation of language in my practice.