Aalto-universitetet
Konstindustriella högskolan

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Take Place (Multifunction Apparatus), 2009
Multifunction Apparatus is a dynamic-interactive object built by the artist who also used and displayed it on the streets of Helsinki, in a performance called Take Place. This work is an object-performance and urban intervention which the main idea is to commit the crime of occupying too much space.

This Apparatus acquires different significances and more functions according to the imagination and wishes of the viewer-user: lightning bolts and snow protector, hiding place, camouflage, rain coat, skirt, stool, bowl of the giant, tent, egg shell, parabolic antenna, lotus, parachute, sitting cloud, umbrella, water lily, bed, megaphone, gramophone, and a few more...

The artist is always inside and often hiding on it, contemplating or walking. She resembles the girl with the dress in the famous painting Las Meninas, or the Venus standing in the shell, a white UFO or whatever you can imagine.


Sitting inside the white bowl in front of the busy Stockmann's main door, under the iconic clock which is a meeting point for dozens of people every day and represents the vibrating pulse of the entire city, she watches the people running busy to their meetings and states that Apparatus is a place for a time without hours.


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