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labyrinth project

map of the location - X marks the spot blue part:  the art centre area 5 hectare green part: labyrinth area 1 hectare

steps:

1. artists can send by mail or post (only A4) global ideas about a natural labyrinth, deadline is closed

2. after selection 2 or 3 artists will be invited to visit the art centre,
the location and condition of the labyrinth,
they will then make a detailed plan on location

3. one of the plans will be selected and executed

the area is a forest with young trees like pine,
birch and rowan, close together and neglected
thinking about a labyrinth people can walk,
discover, art can be integrate,
a new point of view is given to the area

history

Historic Saksala is located on a ridge with the same name in Haukivuori.
The Saksala rock is the largest monolith in Europe left over from the glacial period.
Very early already there was settlement on the location.
The road Mikkeli Pieksämäki follows the ridge and Haukivuori is halfway.
As long as one can remember there was an inn which served as a resting place for travelers.

Because the fields are very fertile, there is a farm area on the ridge, they are the best in the whole area.
After World War II the municipality of Haukivuori transformed Saksala into an old people’s home.
In 1989 it was abandoned.
The fields were overgrown with trees and bushes, resembling a wilderness.
In 1995 two hectares were planted with trees.
Due to lack of maintenance it never became a forest.

In 2003 half of this ‘forest’ was reclaimed by a farmer and is now a lost, strange piece of jungle.
This part will be transformed into a labyrinth created by artists.
There are several possibilities to create the labyrinth with the existing trees as the material.
The artists will determine which trees will remain and how one shall walk through the passage ways.
commission
The area is a neglected forest with young trees such as pine, birch and rowan.
The trees are growing very close together.
The place is an historical location and the labyrinth can connect the past with the future.
The artists can either embrace the past or they can seek contrast.
The physical as well as the mental experience which the visitor has is what makes this forest into a place of contemplation – giving it a new meaning.

the condition of the wooded area of the labyrinth before the start of the project

a view on the LABYRINTH after the first part of the realization May 2007 with new projects the content of the LABYRINTH will develop in spring 2008 there will be a INSTALLATION SYMPOSIUM to create creative and inventive installations on different places in the LABYRINTH

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information:
Marja de Jong
mobile 00358 (0)50 4625 675
mail@saksala.org

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