VALKOISTA LANKAA | WHITE THREAD

Live installation

Concept, material realization, performance: Salla Salin

2008

Duration: 2 days

Installation view: Kunsthalle Helsinki

Photographs: Heikki Paasonen

The signs on the wall have names of different glaciers on them. Threads, attached to to the signs, lead to a glacier shaped, knitted object on the floor. From this object a thread leads to a person sitting further away.

For the duration of the performance this person knits a scarf of the thread that is simultaneously unwinding from its origin point.

The performance lasted 2 days.