Tell me something you once left unsaid

Sideways 2019. Photo by Luumu Jokelainen.

Premiere:
2016, Recover Laboratory Labyrinth, Viikinmäki Wastewater Treatment Plant, Helsinki, Finland

Working group:
Varying working group
Musician: Samuli Kivelä, Aleksi Kinnunen

What you didn’t say last is an installation that brings together sentences that people have not said, either in text or audio form. People are asked a question, and the answers are put together into a video or audio piece. The personal is turned into common and shared. The question is asked during the work or performance, either in writing via a computer installation, by voice message using the participant’s own phone or using a specially created sculpture. The answers are kept anonymous.

The work has been seen as part of labyrinths, participatory walks, commissioned works and festivals, as well as in Miradonna Sirka’s rim manipulation works. “Tell me something you once left unsaid” can be adapted to different events by changing the question asked.

Riku Nieminen and the work / Underneath, 2019. Photo by Aleksi Hornborg