Listed below are the comments written by the passing public in Tampere and artists at the residency studios of how to twin the cities together. What I found was that ‘Art’ wasn’t much of a priority in the general publics daily lives favoring more sports activity, eating and drinking. The artist made ‘Arty’ suggestions although one in particular read the other comments and incorporated that into a more creative idea. For example ‘food & beer’, ‘music’ could be used through a ‘live feed between pubs’. My particular favourite was ‘secret portal in a magic pub’ that again may have been read by the artist and negotiated into a real, possible execution with the ‘live feed’ concept.
One lady thought about using Instagram to take photographs of places to visit in the city that was not the obvious touristy choice. Football is very important in Finland and in Tampere I found out that the women’s league is very good and that they struggle for challenging opposition. Drama is not taught in schools and one teacher remarked that this is a problem making children very shy and reserved. The historical references were briefly mentioned once which was surprising as I had spoken about this to every person I met. Most people would not have engaged with the banner without me talking to them and getting them interested in the big idea. This has got me thinking about the quote: “There is no such thing as art. There are only artists” written by Gombrich from the book The Story of Art….
Banner comments:
Create new drink strawberry and tea blend
In Tampere they could learn to make Eccles cakes and in Manchester they could learn to make black sausage
Food & Beer
Marketing Tampere as ‘Manchester or Finland’
Family exchange
Man U Vs FC Ilves
Student, artist, professional’s exchange
Secret portal in a magic pub
Exchange theatre and applied drama studies
Good beer in both cities
Music
Cultural exchanges
Get drunk play football
Instagram favourite places from both cities
Exchange for schools
In Tampere we eat a lot of chicken wings
Love is the answer what is the question?
Direct flights
Connect histories, similarity of industry
Girls Football tournament, Viva La Ilves!
Ice hockey game
Internet exhibition
Physical gallery
Artist football league
Making bunting together from Tampere to Manchester
Live feed between two pubs one in Tampere the other in Manchester
Post art to each artist ending in final exhibition
