And the next cultural shock just come up this morning. The students making carnival today in the streets of the city and getting drunk already during day time. Do I go inside the party crowd, do I want to work inside these context? To communicate with drunken Finish strangers are not what I personally understand with deep encounter. With a heavy heart I decide that I will do a performance for the most beautiful place in Pori, according to the two English speaking woman from yesterday morning.
I pick up my megaphone from the gallery and take a bus to Yyteri. The bus-trip takes 40 minutes and I exit in front of a hotel. I can not see the sea in this moment, but after a five minutes march through a small forest I enter one the most beautiful beach I ever saw. No one is there, just me and the sea. I sit down and sense the view of the sea. The sky and the ocean are one. I can not see a horizon because of the fog. I start singing for the ocean through my megaphone: “ I had a dream, a song to sing. To help me cope with anything.” I repeat this two lines again and again, for the next 1,5 hour, while I am getting steady louder and louder. I take two shopping bags full of sand with me back to town, after I finished the singing part. I put the sand, shaped as a small mountain, in the bottom drawer which stands open of an old desk inside the gallery. On the table top rests the unfolded city map from Pori.
While I was searching for a possible way to do a performance inside a public space, but not together with the drunken students, I thought that this day will not bring anything fruitful for my research, but at the end it appeared that this day was a very good lecture in becoming more flexible to the obstacles on my way. Was this action really needed for the research? I needed this action as a point – as an end and starting point. I think I can deal with obstacles more relaxed after this project.
