ANNE PERFORMANCE (1998–2001)

One sunny spring day I saw a man falling into sea from the docks. He was already under the water when another man jumped after him and managed to pick him up. Soon there was an ambulance whose crew started resuscitating the almost dead man.

The accident made a permanent impact on me. It came to me again when I was processing a work on my twinship. In twinship the important thing had always been mutual help. That mutual help became the motif of Anne performance.

In the performance I am dressed alike to Anne puppet to which I give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. To the lungs of the puppet there is attached a microphone that takes the sounds of my blowing. During the performance I sample the sound live with a computer. The original idea of resuscitation is left to the background when the performance starts to live its own sonic life.

The first version of the performance was carried out in 1998. Max Savikangas was the person who suggested to put the microphone to the lungs and took care of the sounds then. Later I played the sounds myself and started to use the program for sampling.