Odes for Objects Workshop

This workshop serie took place during 12.02.08 with students from Nuoren Voima Liito and on the 13.02.08 with students from Annantalo. Invited groups came to make odes, short stories and sentences for publicity inspire on the objects.
Following Pablo Neruda's first attempts to make odes based on daily objects, we propose to invite others to do the same.
Please, read the odes in the interactive map. (in Finnish).
Here is the famous ode to the objects, by Neruda (in Finnish)

Oodi esineille

Rakastan esineitä, hullu
hullun lailla,
pidän hohtimista,
saksista,
jumaloin kuppeja,
metallirenkaita,
kulhoja,
puhumatta tietenkään
hatuista.

Rakastan
kaikkia esineitä,
en vain
kaikkein suurimpia
vaan
ihan
loput
toman
pieniäkin,
sormustinta,
kannuksia,
lautasia,
vaaseja.

Voi minun päiviäni,
kaunis
on planeettamme,
täynnä piippuja
joita käsi
kuljettaa
sauhupilvessä,
avaimia,
suolakuppeja,
loppujen lopuksi
kaikkea
mitä ihmisen käsi
on muovannut, kaikenlaista kamaa,
käppyräisiä kenkiä,
kangasta,
kultaa
jota syntyy uudelleen
veren vuotamatta,
silmälaseja,
nauloja,
luutia,
kelloja, nastoja,
kolikoita, pehmeää
pehmeämpiä tuoleja.
...

ote Pablo Nerudan runosta
Oodi esineille
suom. Pentti Saaritsa

First workshop
Organizers: Hanna Kapalanen (Design Museum), Mariana Salgado (UIAH) and Outi-Maria Takkinen (Titi) (Nuoren Voima Liito).
Participants: sanataideryhmä


Activities:
Presentation of the project and people involved. Guided tour in the exhibition based on the three pairs of selected objects. (20 min)
There was a short presentation of the Interactive MAP of the Permanent Exhibition and we deliver the leaflets so participants have the link to go an add more comments/writings in the map, after the workshop.

First task:
Make the short story based on the music done for the UFO and the Ufo itself.
After they read the stories to everyone.

Second Task:
Mariana presents the idea of odes and Pablo Neruda’s work with them. We read the Ode to the Objects in Spanish and Finnish. Then we gave them pictures with the objects selected. Eliel Nojatuoli (Eliel Saarinen) vs Trice (Hannu Kähönen), Big Mouth (Tani Muhonen) vs Lokki (Maija Isola) and Block lamp (Harri Koskinen) with Karhu (Eila Minkkinen) .
Parcipants have chosen the couple of objects they want to work with or a single one from these.
They read aloud to the whole group.

End of the workshop, thanks and applause.

Second workshop
Organizers: Hanna Kapalanen (Design Museum) and Mariana Salgado (UIAH).
Participants: Annantalo group.
Teacher: Nana Smulovitz-Mulyana


Activities:
Presentation of the project and people involved. Guided tour in the exhibition highlighting the the 1920s and the begining of the publicity campaigns. (20 min)
There was a short presentation of the Interactive MAP of the Permanent Exhibition and we deliver the leaflets so participants have the link to go an add more comments/writings in the map, after the workshop.

First task:
Make a some phrases for the publicity of the perfum bottle by Greta-Lisa Jädernhörm-Snellman.

Second task:
Mariana presents the idea of odes and Pablo Neruda’s work with them. We read the Ode to the Objects in Spanish and Finnish. Then we gave them pictures with the objects selected. Eliel Nojatuoli (Eliel Saarinen) vs Trice (Hannu Kähönen), Big Mouth (Tani Muhonen) vs Lokki (Maija Isola) and Block lamp (Harri Koskinen) with Karhu (Eila Minkkinen) .
Parcipants have chosen the couple of objects they want to work with or a single one from these.
They read aloud to the whole group.

End of the workshop, thanks and applause.