Homelessness fair
An art event in Hyvinkää focusing on homelessness
Homelessness Fair - Taju 2013 14.6.-1.9.2013, Organised by Hyvinkää Artists' Association and Hyvinkää Art Museum
The Homelessness Fair is an antithesis to the Housing Fair that is held in Hyvinkää 12.7. - 11.8.2013. The Housing Fair focuses on housing technology, environmental issues and the stylishness of interior decoration without problematising the societal and social dimensions of homelessness. In other words, The Homelessness Fair is a forum which creates discussion about what homelessness is and how it is defined. The curators of Homelessness Fair - Taju 2012 are artists Jani Leinonen and Riiko Sakkinen. They have invited to Hyvinkää different civic organisations that deal with homelessness, social institutions and other active parties in the field. The context is art, which at its best is a meeting place of different approaches and viewpoints.
The Homelessness Fair has exhibitions at the Hyvinkää Art Museum, the Artists' Association's Promenadigalleria and in urban spaces. The Homelessness Fair has documentaries about homelessness, a social comic workshop for the homeless which is instructed by artist Katja Tukiainen, and there is also the Finnish Football Championship of the Homeless on 15 June 2013.
More information:
Homelessness Fair - Taju 2013 Exhibition Secretary Satu Sälpäkivi, tel. +358 (0)45 6747 889, satusalpakivi(a)gmail.com
Hyvinkää Art Museum Curator Merja Ilola, tel. +358 (0)40 480 1776, merja.ilola(a)hyvinkaa.fi
