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Dear walking artist, I´m happy to inform you about the exhibition in Research Pavilion, "You Gotta Say Yes to Another Access" in Venice (10.5.- 2.7.17). I´m Helsinki based visual artist doing installations and environmental works. My work "Access to Landscape" is part of the exhibition. I´m foot writing the letter on the snow. The work is referring to my family history, to a small minority group in Finland. It is about reflecting a community inside the society where the cultural identity is laid and reconstructed through a language of ancestors. It emphasises a language, which is absorbed by vicinity of social relations. By transcribing the letter on the snowy landscape I use public space as a kind of archive, restoring and presenting inscription. Here the writing is not for gaining semantic values, instead it is performed like a symbolic act. The idea is to use the body as a writing tool. It is inscriptions of written text laid down on the ground. It is about existing, making and being visible. Time is pressed at least in a double way; first it is an old document as a starting point and then a snowy surface indicating temporality and challenging the notion of oblivion. The old document is written in Arabic script which was commonly used in my childhood. All the best, Niran Baibulat niranbaibulat.com www.researchpavilion.fi FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan