MuseumTalk X: Getting Old Project is an audio play about getting old. The Ateneum Art Museum is an instrument Juha Valkeapää’s voice plays. As a sum of Valkeapää’s voice, Jyrki Häyrinen’s mix and Tomi Humalisto’s lights the Ateneum’s inner yard rages and riots by puberty’s defiance, the entrance whines by crisis of thirties, until in the stairway you climb up towards a happy and wise oldness. The starting point is a cliche and very personal: fatherhood and growing children, middle age coming closer, degenerating body. Six performances in Sep-Oct 2000 at The Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki. Duration 50 min’s.

Photo: Tomi Humalisto